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The Road to Hell, The Legend of Cooperville: Biological Clock: Brood 19: Inner Demons: Clipperton: Ark of time: Orion's Gold: You Gotta Want It.
The Road to Hell with Mike Manaserri (Webcast/TV pilot and 12 episodes) This is the story of Judith Spivey, abused, abandoned and very angry, she is the next step in the evolution of human kind...too bad she's crazy. The Legend of Cooperville with Ed Nakfoor, Melonie Jackson and Howard Weinberger A Loner, Nash Weaver, overcomes his loneliness and isolation finding true friends as he stumbles upon a secret, born in the mists of the Civil War, which threatens to upset the balance of world power. This is the story of Nash Weaver, a 12 year old skateboarder whose mother has passed. He has been moved from town to town by his father who is running from his own demons. Nash has become a loner, unwilling to make friends, fearing the pain of having to be uprooted over and over.
Nash finds himself in Cooperville, a small Southern town, starting another new school and getting acclimated to another new house. School starts hideously with a scene orchestrated by the class bully, leaving poor Nash a social pariah. Nash is forced to serve detention, helping fix up the old Historical Museum in town, paired with the last child he would have chosen to hang out with, the ultra geeky Marshall Ota.
Cooperville, however, has its secret. As Nash explores his new home, which happens to date back to the founding of the town by the mysterious Confederate Colonel Silas Cooper, and as he sorts through material at the museum, Nash begins to uncover the truth behind the town’s legendary treasure. Along the way, he develops an innocent new romance with confident and athletic Tessa, also a transplant to the town.
As the odd group of Nash, Marshall and Tessa close in on the treasure; dark forces descend upon the town. Unbeknownst to the children, the treasure they seek hides an even more powerful secret, a mystical coin of power that, in the wrong hands, could throw the world into tyranny.
The back-story of the treasure in this script is based on fact. The treasure is gold Confederate coins and the dies to strike them. These coins never made it in to circulation and the few that are known to exist are a “Holy Grail” of American coin collecting, each fetching hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction.
Stigma
Liam Hansen a doctoral candidate in history at a major university is a social leper; because he's actually had leprosy. He overcomes his sense of futility and isolation via a taboo relationship with a mercurial undergrad.
Biological Clock with Ed Nakfoor, Melonie Jackson
The tables are turned. What happens when a man has a biological clock?
This is the story of Denny Vicari, a 40 year old single guy living in Detroit. He is a local celebrity, owning a home window company and doing his own cheesy ads, for years. He should be an eligible bachelor, but he’s known as damaged goods. He’s been ruined in the past 7 years since he let his one true love slip away as Penny went off to pursue her career in Europe.Denny is under intense pressure. He love live is a shambles, his mother is controlling, his brother is in business with him and pushing for more control, and a huge powerful new super-store is invading his market.
One day Denny snaps. He has a bizarre stress-induced episode that results in an autoimmune disease. Essentially, his testes have become inflamed. The doctors tell him that within 18 months he will be sterile. Suddenly he has a biological clock like the women he’s been jerking around.
Being Catholic (San Marinese), Denny wants to have children the traditional way. He goes on a mad search for the right girl, finding the wrong girl along the way. Meanwhile, his true love Penny has found the wrong guy. Sensing that she left the best thing she could have had behind, she moves back home to Detroit. Her boyfriend unexpectedly follows her.
Through coincidence and fate Penny and Denny begin to reconnect. They still have a spark. Their respective relationships destruct, and they seem to be on the verge of consummating the one relationship they both need, when Denny has another episode of his problem. The doctors were wrong. Denny has missed his deadline.
Denny is driven into a funk. Penny does not understand what has happened, until everything is explained to her by Denny’s best friend, Mitch. Penny, however, has a secret, too.
To break Denny from his depressive state, Mitch stages an intervention. He takes Denny to the hallowed ground of a Michigan-Ohio State football game. Denny begins to brighten. There Mitch reveals Penny, who professes her love to Denny. Denny still feels incomplete and is explaining himself when Penny shows him the real reason she left suddenly 7 years before. Penny produces a 7 year old boy, who looks a lot like Denny. Denny has fulfilled his destiny after all. Brood 19 with Stuart Gildenberg Life finds a way. A college town is overrun by man-cicada hybrid creatures.
When their natural habitat is destroyed by the rapid growth of a major Midwestern university, the local brood of cicadas emerges under great selection pressure to find alternative food sources in order to survive. They choose a human as an unwitting host. This host bears larvae which develop into human cicada hybrid creatures. The creatures torment the denizens of the college town, until a timid but brilliant entomologist rises to meet their challenge.
Inner Demons
Down and out writer, Alex Harmon becomes the unwitting host of an ancient Zoroastrian demon.
Alex Harmon, a former award winning screen writer, has hit rock-bottom after his daughter has been abducted by a cult. His life turns when he is asked to write a horror film by Alan Krass, a notorious producer. Looking for inspiration, Alex stumbles on to a creepy occult library run by Liam Dorian. Dorian turns Alex on to a series of ancient Zoroastrian texts. A script practically writes itself as Alex reads these texts and recites its incantations. Unbeknownst to Alex, as he writes, and, as the actors recite his lines, he is becoming infused with the spirit of an ancient Zoroastrian Demon.
Alex’s friend Max, a newspaper reporter, and his ex-wife Angela, begin to recognize the trouble and uncover the mystery behind the demon, Dorian’s cult and Alex’s transformation. As the mystery unfurls, a confrontation awaits Alex in the form of the former host of the demon, who is not ready to relinquish the power of the spirit.
Ark of Time with Ed Nakfoor
The secret of Man's origin becomes the key to his salvation. Seventy years from now, global warming has become the planet’s most pressing issue. Sea waters are rising all over the globe as the glaciers melt, and we meet Gray Dean. Gray is an archeologist; an academician who prides himself on being a “hard scientist” in contrast to his famous younger brother Michael, who has a well known and highly rated TV science show that Gray considers to be “fluff”. Gray laments how he cannot get good graduate students to help him on his back water project now that rising sea levels and global warming around the world have drawn off talent to sexier projects, such as saving the pyramids. Gray is excavating a Judean military outpost from the time of the Jewish kings. As the story opens, they’ve made an exciting discovery. In a hermetically sealed chamber in the desert, they’ve uncovered five gourds, rolled up in which are incredibly well preserved scrolls, of the bible. These scrolls are 900 years older than the Dead Sea scrolls. They are essentially the first draft of the bible.
Alan Bishovsky, a linguist translates some of the scrolls and immediately realizes how different they are from today’s accepted version of the bible. He points out differences to Gray until they both realize that, early in the first book, the story of Noah is dramatically different. According to this source, people have been looking in the wrong place for evidence of the Ark.
Suddenly the race is on. With their new fame, financing pours in, and a major expedition is launched with the help of the National Geographic Society, the liaison there being Michael Dean’s (Gray’s brother with whom a jealous rivalry exists) on again and off again girlfriend, Remy.
With Imax cameras rolling, the team finds itself on a secluded mountain. They take core samples to determine where to dig, and come up with the most unexpected finding; a piece of fossilized modern human femur. This dates to 150,000 years ago; the time of the Neanderthals and is the first evidence of modern humans on the planet.
Not knowing what to make out of this, the team excavates the entire layer and identifies a mass grave site with 40 well preserved fossilized skeletons. As they plot this out, Gray sees something glinting in the sunlight. He examines it. It is a hand-held computing device, 150,000 years old (carbon dated).
Over the next year, the entire mountain is excavated to reveal a spacecraft that had crashed millennia ago. The team is able to enter the ship through its breached hull and they find it still has a tiny bit of power. Wondering through the ship, they find a huge room, like a library, full of drawers. They pull out drawers and holographic images of animals they’ve never seen emerge with DNA sequences.
When the get to the bridge of the ship, Bishovsky accidentally touches a button and a holographic image of the ship’s captain appears, reciting the final ship’s log. She is a beautiful woman, speaking in ancient Hebrew. He translates the message that this ship had escaped global warming and floods on its home planet and had come here, where it crashed. The survivors were going to stake their claim on this new world. The hologram’s name is Captain Noehy. This is Noah’s ark. Man came to this planet at the time of the Neanderthals. Over time, in the struggle to survive, the story of our origins became a legend, then a myth, then a bible story.
At this moment, two bored teenaged Soviet soldiers manning a remote missile silo decide they’re going tap the rocket for its alcohol (methanol). They inadvertently detonate the warhead and cause a major nuclear explosion. Close to the polar ice cap, the explosion accelerates the global warming on the planet to the point that the whole planet will be under water in 7 years. The world government mobilizes, but decides to keep the population in the dark to avoid panic. Michael Dean, however employs a staff of scientists working on his show. They catch wind of the impending demise of the world and the cover-up. Meanwhile, the documentary about Noah’s Michael Dean airs his expose’ of the government’s cover-up. Already the ecological crisis has begun. Fractures appear in the brittle harmony on the planet as pressure mounts. Michael, for his part, seeing the catastrophic events and the position he is in to communicate to the world, starts to believe that he is actually a biblical style prophet. He leads a pilgrimage to the
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Now in orbit, the bewildered and hastily prepared crew of the ship is briefed by the commander. Gray Dean and Remy (who have developed a love interest) are on board. The commander tells the crew that they have determined from where the ship originally came. It has become repopulated over the past 150,000 years. It is a small planet orbiting a small star at the far end of the galaxy. The inhabitants of the planet from which man originated, call their star “Sol,” and their planet “Earth”. The survivors of the planet Gaia are excited to meet their brothers from the home world.
You Gotta Want It with Ed Nakfoor Inner-city basketball star overcomes his learning disorder and the culture shock of his new school, and, by learning dance from his new girlfriend, becomes a better player, leading his team to the State championship.
Darius Lemon is a happy inner-city basketball star. He has no interest in the upper-class private school that recruits him, until his best friend is killed. At the new school, his assigned tutor, Izzy, is the daughter of a school custodian; also an outsider, but an excellent dancer. Courting her, Darius learns moves that help him excel on the court. When Izzy finds Darius’s hidden learning disability he acts out on his shame and almost destroys his shining opportunity.
Clipperton
Based on a true story. From 1914 to 1917, Mexico abandoned a small military garrison on Clipperton Island in the Pacific, leaving the inhabitants to their own devices. Alicia Arnaud survives the trials of hellish Clipperton Island, transforming from spoiled aristocrat to hardened leader.
Orion's Gold with Howard Weinberger
A secret mission to the moon in 1972. A rediscovered element that can solve the planets energy problems. A down and out big-time treasure hunter and a crazy billionaire collector. These elements combine to run a private mission to the moon. What they find there is a bigger secret than any of them could have imagined.
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