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Robert Lazar
A roundup of the week’s exec moves!
Logline: A down-and-out prison guard attempts to murder and rob had-a-million in hidden heist money from a recently released inmate.
After being adopted by his best friend’s wealthy parents, an orphaned teenager discovers that his adoptive dad might be a contract killer and is recruited by the police to help bring him down.
Logline: A powerful revenge western of a father on the search for his sons killer.
Logline: Pitched as “Gladiator” with pirates. Based on the true story of the high-octane manhunt for the most notorious and elusive of outlaws, Blackbeard, and the man who brought him down on Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina, in 1718.
Logline: A team of paralyzed thrill-seekers undergo an operation that turns them into superhumans.
Logline: Story will tell the formative story of how Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince, and Messala, the son of a Roman tax collector, grew up best friends before the Roman Empire took control of Jerusalem. It will also tell the parallel tale of Jesus Christ with whom Ben-Hur has several encounters which moves him to become a believer.
Logline: Kept under wraps but said to be in the vein of “Drive”.
Logline: Two thieves who are hired to steal the only previously unseen DaVinci fresco are double crossed by who they think is the Italian femme fatale they’ve both fallen for.