Screenplays
OPTIONED FEATURE:
First, Do No Harm
OPTIONED DRAMATIC SERIES:
The Name is Ness
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Hudson Agency
Susan Giordano
First, Do No Harm
(Optioned)
A convict must escape prison and find cash hidden during a bank robbery 15 years ago if he’s to save his family from the ex‑partner that holds them hostage.
GENRE: Action/Thriller
FORMAT: Screenplay.
The Ambassador
A disgraced politician relegated to an ambassadorial post in a third world nation rediscovers the principles that began his career and stands off a tyrant's besieging army to protect the political refugees that sought shelter within embassy walls.
GENRE: Political Thriller
FORMAT: Screenplay and Series Bible. Also available as Fiction. First of the Jackson Ford Mystery Series (Genres: Mystery, Action, Political Thriller).
Lexie
A veteran and his working dog, both carrying the scars of war, settle into new roles as deputy and K9 in the sleepy hill country of Virginia, only to find that the new roads they travel are as explosively lethal as the sands of Afghanistan.
GENRE: Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Screenplay. Also soon to be available as fiction.
Heroes
The estranged son of a B-List movie star uses fantasy techniques to enlist the greatest film stars from the age of cinema to reunite with his father and to battle the forces that shattered his family.
GENRE: Drama, Action/Adventure.
FORMAT: Screenplay.
Black Dragon
In a high-stakes scenario during US multinational war games, Commander Jim Carnes finds himself tasked as an observer aboard a Japanese attack submarine. When a US destroyer is torpedoed, Carnes and the Japanese crew are wrongly accused of the attack. They soon discover that mutineers aboard a Russian nuclear ballistic submarine are the true culprits. Now, Carnes and the Japanese crew must evade the hostile pursuit of the US fleet if they are to locate the mutineers and prevent them from reaching firing coordinates that will commence a nuclear war.
GENRE: Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Screenplay.
Purgatory
Ever since she gunned down the drunk driver who killed her daughter, former Detective Aubrey Case’s grief has distanced herself from fellow inmates and from the remnants of her own family, but when rioting prisoners take Aubrey’s sister and nephew hostage during a parole hearing, Aubrey realizes she must act before the last of those she loves are lost.
GENRE: Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Screenplay.
The Name Is Ness
(in writing partnership with Michael Stern)
(Optioned)
When the granddaughter of Eliot Ness is wounded on a case and returns to the FBI Academy Cold Case Unit as an instructor to convalesce, she makes the archives of unsolved cases far more than a teaching tool for her students… they are a second chance for justice.
GENRE: Police Procedural, Mystery, Action
FORMAT: Feature-length screenplay or episodic TV with Series Bible.
Bonebreakers
A woman brutalized and left for dead by her pro-boxer husband finds power, vengeance, and redemption in the tutelage of a hired killer.
GENRE: Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Screenplay.
Viridae
It’s 2055 and a humankind on the verge of exploring the solar system is forced to learn fast when they are discovered by warring alien races and must choose sides in a conflict where all the participants consider humanity as either cannon-fodder, or vermin that must be exterminated.
GENRE: Science Fiction, Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Screenplay. Also soon to be available as fiction.
Ghostdance
(in writing partnership with Michael Stern)
The star that was posthumously named after his mother is too far and too dim for young Eli Swisher to view from sea-level, so he embarks on a journey that will carry him through danger, heartache, and fear in order to view his mother’s heavenly legacy.
GENRE: Drama, Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Screenplay.
The Square
A Russian child adopted by members of the Chinese communist elite learns the true nature of love and sacrifice when he becomes involved with a leader of the student protest leadership and risks his privilege, his wealth, and his life to save her before she is lost to the carnage of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
GENRE: Thriller, Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Screenplay.
Atonement
A federal agent whose life has been framed by the tragedies of his past, must pursue a serial killer whose crimes are determined by his ability to foresee tragedies in the future.
GENRE: Police Procedural, Action
FORMAT: Screenplay.
Eagles Down
(in writing partnership with Kurt Kusenko & Joe Venanzi and Norm Tessman)
When three crewmembers bail out of their crippled Liberator Bomber and into the night skies above the Grand Canyon, they begin a harrowing ordeal that would captivate a nation, and their escape from the depths of the Grand Canyon would make front-page news beside the D-Day landings. (From a true story.)
GENRE: Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Screenplay.
This Time
Thomas Chiles is a scientist on the verge of being able to traverse the ravening torrent of time, when his family is murdered before his eyes. His last hope is to reach the man convicted of their murder, a man Thomas knows was an innocent witness to the crime… a dead man that cannot be reached in his time.
GENRE: Science Fiction, Thriller
FORMAT: Screenplay.
Pup's Angel
Chain Williams is a Secret Service agent consumed by grief over the murder of his son, but when the first lady chooses him, Chain must fight to overcome his loss and carry out his assignment... as bodyguard to the President's infant son.
GENRE: Thriller, Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Screenplay.
Touch
A boy with powerful empathic abilities grows up under the Secret Service’s watchful eye, never more than 10 minutes from the President... until a powerful man with a will to live forever decides to steal his gift.
GENRE: Fantasy, Thriller
FORMAT: Feature-length screenplay or episodic TV with Series Bible. Also soon to be available as fiction.
Stolen
After the death of his wife, Daniel Royce thought he had nothing left to lose, but when a stranger abducts his infant son, he finds himself in a race against time to save the one thing left living for.
GENRE: Thriller, Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Treatment for a feature-length screenplay.
Jonah
The past returns to haunt a North Korean defector exiled to a life at sea aboard US Navy ships when North Korean forces capture an American spy ship and realize that - in addition to the technology they sought - they have found the legendary “Colonel”, the traitor who became a man without a country in order to safeguard the lives of his children in North Korea; now the Colonel must choose between a return to his homeland, and helping the Americans who gave him sanctuary.
GENRE: Action/Adventure
FORMAT: Screenplay.