A boy fascinated by space travel recruits his friends and an eccentric NASA engineer to hatch an unbelievable plan to try and save his dying father.
Steve Altiere
Logline: After learning of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, a space-obsessed 12-year-old comes up with a crazy plan to save his cancer-stricken father: build a spaceship that will travel fast enough to slow down his aging, and therefore the spread of his cancer. He’ll team up with an unhinged former astronaut who claims to know how to make it happen… and in the process, maybe just learn how to say goodbye. A coming-of-age story in the vein of Super 8, Stand By Me, and E.T.
Logline: Pitched as “National Treasure” meets “Santa Clause” – When Santa Claus is kidnapped from the North Pole, the secret to finding him is revealed to be hidden in the text of the poem, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Now it’s up to the great-great-great-grandson of the poem’s author – a suburban Dad in Upstate New York, to team up with Santa’s most loyal elf to unlock the clues in time to rescue St. Nick before Christmas morning.
Logline: A polar bear named Norm is forced into the world after his arctic home begins melting.