EXPLOSION AT BLACK TOM!
Federal Agents -- including a young J. Edgar Hoover and a badass female translator -- track German saboteurs plotting the July 30, 1916 Black Tom Island explosion in New York harbor - the terrorist attack on America! Professional Coverage: “Recommend” - Dave Trottier (Author “The Screenwriter’s Bible”). SEMI-FINALIST - Fade In Awards-True Story/Bio Contest
a young Kate Winslett
A young Ben Stiller type
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Black Hawk Down
Screenplays
Jim specializes in screenplays based on historical true events (including musicals), bio/pics and/or disasters. In alphabetical order:
“BOJANGLES, EUBIE AND BERT!” Three black musical legends of the past – Bert Williams, Eubie Blake and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson – relive their show business success in spite of racism and theatrical bigotry.
Big Apple (Semifinalist) [2019]
Emerging Screenwriters Feature (Semifinalist) [2019]
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ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!583
A suburban couple’s only crime is not mowing their lawn (buried under snow) in December, as per ordinance 583; the story follows their travails trying to save their home from being demolished by a monster we created: Government!
Hard-Hearted Hannah
A rookie detective on a routine hotel skip case instead finds himself pitted against a diabolical serial killer with a deadly grudge against the Eighth Air Force, whose reunion is being held there.
THE SOCIAL POLICE
Twenty years from now, an FBI agent patrols the social media This pilot streamer has it all.
Med Frenzy
Hidden corporate practices and lax governmental controls cause a large population to become afflicted with an unknown skin ailment that cause doctors to label patients psychotic, but a single woman, in her desperate struggle to find relief, discovers the true cause of the disease and an underlying conspiracy.
LOTUS OPERANDI
This one is pure Fun.!It's a genre buster, Fosse/Verdon meets James Bond, meets All That Jazz and Cabaret! Asian American Black Belt goes undercover for the CIA, to help track down terrorists.
CURIOUS BUDDIES
It's not your mother's buddy movie.
NOCTUME'S RAINBOW
Kids and their dogs, find the rainbow bridge in a snowstorm.
CIRQUE D' ETOILES
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station.
I've Got Your Number
1940s film noir satire, as hard-boiled, cynical private detective Vic Winslow wallows within the sordid, sleazy world of blackmail, murder, corruption, mobsters, and pure evil, all focused upon a lovely femme fatale.
Motherkiller
Based on a true story. A rookie prosecutor, a young woman, fights to revive a cold case against a man accused of murdering his girlfriend twenty years ago.
