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TD Nguyen
in progress: Candice is in limbo, a transitional time in her life. Her job is so-so. Her boyfriend, Sam, doesn't pay much attention to her. She goes on a dog sitting job/vacation with her best friends, Denise and Pam. They are all in their late twenties. They watch Denise's aunt's dog named Andy W in the scenic seaside village of Stony Brook on Long Island for a couple weeks. The gals find a box of knick knacks and a round they played of the childhood game M.A.S.H- mansion, apartment, shack, or house- that predicts your future. Candice needs a complete overhaul. Denise is happily married, but could use an employment upgrade. Pam has her dream job and car, but is freshly divorced. They each need a little "something something" for them to feel like their lives are more complete. The Side Story: Celebrities Unlimited Max Franklin works for a tabloid television show called Celebrities Unlimited (C.U. for short)- that airs paparazzi videos of Max talks about clips of Jamie in every other episode. He makes fun of her, basically calling her a dumb actress with no talent. He has videos of her looking her worst. Jamie gets fed up and decides to fight back- giving Max a taste of his own medicine. She hires one camera man to catch the most embarrassing parts of Max’s life. She has someone keep track of his twitter to find out where he is. She starts a website with sneaky videos shot of Max. Jamie pays off Max’s friends to tell her of his whereabouts. She hires camera guys to follow him around more, stepping it up a notch. They film behind the scenes of Max’s work. Max can’t relax- without a camera filming him at his DUI class, sitting at the bus stop, etc… The public begins to really like watching clips of Max. The web site gets a million hits in one week. Max is becoming a celebrity in his own right. Jamie is making more on banner ad sales and click throughs than her movie salaries. Jamie’s career is fading because she’s not on Celebrities Unlimited as much as she used to be. She’s spending too much time organizing her “anti-Max” website. In order to get back into the limelight, Jamie starts stalking Max and doing things to get into frame with him. She starts jumping on his lap at clubs, trying to make out with him when cameras are around, etc.. What does fame and celebrity in our digital age really mean? Under Your Nose WGA 1265839 Lucy is a LA transplant who lives in Lucy has to break out of the confines she has built for herself. The story is a social commentary on how certain websites have taken away people’s autonomy and seem to dictate human behavior. Make Out Club Before facebook, before myspace, there was MOC! A new era of rock and roll and electro music, coupled with a new era in interpersonal communication through computers is upon us. Make Out Club, the movie, will capitalize on both of these with its witty and poignant story telling. It’s the name of one of the first social networking sites for hip kids, along with Lipstick and Cigarettes, before these things got out of hand and everyone and their mother got a profile. The script is about those kids you see standing on the corner smoking cigarettes with bed head and black wardrobes, who make you wonder what their lives are really about. What makes them tick? What are their interests? Why do they look like that? What do they listen to? People all across the Internet and the world are waiting to see something like this. Raised with computers, cell phones, and two-way pagers- Generation x-Y emulates its earlier counterparts in dress modes, but members are not stigmatized by meeting one another online. Social networking sites are a cultural phenomenon. Cool youngsters share tunes and fashion ideas and even hook up. Many couple off due to these sites and then put a ‘In a Relationship’ on their profiles. Follow your favorite teen/twenties archetypes- the slut, the bi-boy, the volatile couple that breaks up every week as they go out, make out and figure it out. The idea of the story lends much to a stylistic shooting approach that will combine advanced technology and the warm feel of yet another burgeoning music scene - new rave, not your mom's Rn'R, and electro. This movie will be a definitive zeitgeist as its predecessors 24 Hour Party People, American Graffiti, Saturday Night Fever, Suddenly Seeking Susan, and Singles. Why fight when you can make out? -MOC- Review by: Kevin Michael Evans I read your screenplay MakeoutClub and enjoyed it. You have a very visual style which I think should serve you well in your writing..I think your script has a lot of potential. Well, thanks so much for putting your screenplay up and I hope to read more from you in the future. I hope this review is helpful and encourages you to write more. You have a great gift for the visual side. Good luck, Kevin. This story is about young people in their twenties or possibly late teens, meeting through online services that allow them to meet others, promote, play, download and enjoy music; get high and be themselves. Felt to me like a story that showed negatively and positively what this generation is about. Just how back in the 80s there were brat pack and teen movies. This felt like a 21st Century version of those flicks. I thought the drug scenes were frighteningly real. What I mean by that is the scenes where the characters were doing every drug imaginable as uncomfortable as it was to read, it was an accurate depiction of what’s really going on. I also liked the technique where the writer had the characters fantasize about things that didn’t really happen. It’s an effective technique to get us inside the minds of the characters. I could see this story being something some people in this generation would relate to, the same way other generations have related to films about their era. The Vaughn “sees” a panel of “Cosmo gals” who judge her choices, based on the magazine column where four women rate a revenge situation as “acceptable or heinous”. Earnst is a well do-er who spends a lot of time solitarily. He goes about picking plastic bags out of trees in his neighborhood. He has a reputable background that haunts him. Earnst bides by his humble do- good attitude and thinks that he’s on the right track. He keeps having bad luck or gets stuck in compromising positions and wonders why it happens to him. He still believes in being positive. Vaughn and Earnst are put into the public eye for separate reasons. Stella is the overly ambitious talent agent who sucks Earnst and Vaughn into show business, observing their notoriety and sell-ability. Rebecca also has been trying her hand at ‘acting’- so that she may appear cool and hopefully become famous. The tale is about ambitions or lack there of, that go in an array of curious ways. Being serendipitous and unfortunate are all relative.
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Two Graves
WGA 1433484
Confucius: When you seek revenge, you dig two graves.
Shelby and Martin Graves are siblings. They have fangs. They take orders for dishes best served cold.
Quadrooplettes
Theodore and Dorothy are twin ghosts who recruit, Sam Love, a recently emancipated, seemingly permanently down on his luck foster kid to help them find a dwelling to haunt.
See-Throughs are the new word for ghosts. Sam struggles with fitting in at school and in society, being on own. He is snagged by two ghosts who change his life, while trying to not get sucked into the vortex of "limbo".
The story is a social commentary about accepting those who are different than humans, much like the way the tv show True Blood addresses "vampire rights".
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*Finalist- 2010 Beverly Hills Film Festival*
Mash-up
WGA 1370233
Candice runs into a geek from high school- Dax who happens to also live in town. The two of them hit it off, even though they were not really friends in their teens.
All the while, Dax's friend Max, a monster fanatic, is investigating curious evidence of The Stony Brook Sea Monster.
Candice and Pam are skeptics, but Denise is a champion of fate. Magically, things on their MASH games start becoming true. Are they willing these things into happening or it is a mysterious force turning the tides of their lives?
The town includes grannie types who know more than they let on and other strange characters that make up a comedic landscape.
WGA 1366559
WGA 1363881
Bailey is not your typical dog. He is a surfing dog. This is a cultural phenomenon sweeping Southern California, with competitions in Huntington Beach and San Diego (surfinpaws.com).
Bailey helps his person, Steve, who works at the FBI solve a burglary ring no one can crack. Think 'Point Break', but with dogs. The story takes them to locales such as Miami and Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge on the Emerald Isle of North Carolina.
Vampire Movie
WGA 1363882
This is a spoof on the Twilight books and film empire. It also pokes fun at Interview with a Vampire, Lost Boys, Blade, Blacula, True Blood, Vampire Diaries, Underworld, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Glade is a hapless mixed race vampire who tells the story of how he was 'made'. He also recounts his time with The Sullens in Spoons, Washington...
The Scoper
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Pinky Swear
WGA 1094160
The time comes and they're both still un-hitched. Little did Jane know that Tim was serious and that there's a magic spell that holds her to it. She has to find a way to get out it. Jane tries to find someone else for Timothy or for herself before the clock strikes midnight and her 30th birthday is upon her. Can she change her fate that she swore away during her childhood?
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The 00’s Need a New Brat Pack
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WGA 870947
Vaughn is a talented illustrator who had a mental breakdown. Now she goes to a menial job as a collections agent, where the superficial Rebecca bullies her. Vaughn’s roommate and friend, Vic, tries to be Vaughn’s conscience at times. A turn of events convinces Vaughn that karma is a hoax. She does things that would ordinarily get her into trouble, but they turn out better than all right and there is no backfiring. It seems she would receive bad karma, however the unexpected happens. For all of Vaughn’s mischievous behavior, she gets rewarded. Vaughn decides to live her life on this principle of “reverse karma”.
Finally! A script that made me laugh ("velveeta"). What a refreshing sense of irreverence. Great first minute - says everything perfectly. Nice details about people: cat stuff,
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Pressure on the actors but could be a great showcase for the right young talent.. The writer creates sexy situations that could be hilarious with the right casting. Has a good funky atmosphere which would probably touch THE demographic because its self effacing in the funny Jack Lemon sort of way. Needs talent but like a good pop song is a very forgiving blueprint. I liked it.
Trifecta : A Graphic Novel
WGA 1158630
This is the story of a new race of immortal-modern day gorgons who have the powers of traditional monsters of the night- the sisters of fate. One is good, two are bad to the bone.
Hope tries to undo the evil and chaos created by her sisters.
Faith and Charity are unleashing havoc upon the principles of man-kind and trying to take over by genetically creating dopplegangers.
Percy is the man who must figure it all out.
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Hermania
Writers Guild of
Pillaging is so the new black.
Herman, a lowly video store clerk, is fed up with modern life. He dreads having to grow up, pay the bills, work in a cubicle and not be creatively fulfilled. He’s having a hard time keeping up with all the new gadgets out there. Herman and his chaps are not good with women either. He longs for the ancient times when people lived off the land and worked outside.
The video shop lays off Herman and his friends. Now jobless, they decide to live by the codes of the Vikings and Celts who once settled
The Hermanians decide they should pillage different cities and get what they want. They build a rickety Viking ship and sail to different ports. They get away with items like a big screen television, electric razors and such. Now back in their village, they enjoy being outdoorsy as well as having these things that make their lives easier. Meanwhile, a Scotland Yard agent is working on the case to find out what band of criminals keeps conducting these raids. Alternatively, the Hermanians are garnering a fan base of young women who like their 'burly' ways.
Trouble comes when one of the fellows gets arrested during a pillaging. The Hermanians rally together to find a solution to having what they want and for getting their friend back.
The resolution is creating a Viking adventure camp/hotel where city people can come out and have fun, the old, old fashioned way. The Hermanians make the bail money to retrieve their buddy. They also start Viking Cruiselines.
The Priest, The Rabbi, and the Swami
Writers Guild of America Registration No. 1267784
Worshipping and warring just got interesting.
The priest, the rabbi and the swami all live in a scenic village/small town. Their places of worship are all at three corners of the same intersection. We see the beauty of each different tradition. They each try to get people to join their congregations. The men try different methods like a free pancake dinner, a free kosher meal and a free curry buffet. Each week, the three men compete with one another to see who has more people at their services.
One week, the three of them get a big surprise. They get ready and go into their respective places of worship. They wait to begin their speeches, when they notice no one is in attendance. They each walk to the front door of their buildings and look outside to see that on the fourth corner, there is a new age church that has sprung up. There is a sign that says: free sushi and h'ordoerves. The swami, the rabbi, and the priest all look at each other, mouths agape. Everyone from their congregations is at the new age center.
Our three men now must band together. They have to prove the wrong doings of the new age leader and his minions. The rabbi, the swami and the priest sneak around to find evidence of the abuses of the “cult” next door and its false idol. They know that working with one another and respecting one another to thwart the common evil is better than competing with one another. United, they bring harmony back to their community.
Royal Jelly
Writers Guild of
Idea by Evan Charnov, Treatment by TD Nguyen
They who hold the jewels, have the power.
An international organization of young people get together to hold the royal bloodline hostage. Four devilishly smart students from
The plan is on. The organization, as it were, sends in a hot seductress, the American, to do the job. She gets what they need in a condom and gives it to them. The scientist of the group puts the sperm into cold storage in a secret location. Soon, deposed royals and Hapsburg cousins from around the world find out about what happened, via underground emails. They contact the organization and try to buy the jizz, so they produce an heir to
The prince realizes what has happened and the royals must develop a counter action. It is an all out bidding war. The organization knows that the jizz in the wrong hands is worse than giving it back to its original possessor. What will they decide to do with it? This is a mystery story of who done it. We take a look at three different determined women from different stages and walks of life. They each have something the other two do not. We examine the haves and the have nots in LA’s different societies. Jamie is a transplant to LA. She is a young woman working as an assistant in the entertainment industry. She has her trials and tribulations with work and men. Monica is a commercial director with a cheating husband, a loveless marriage. Sally and her husband are trying to make the American dream work, opening their own market. They suffer poor business and financial crisis. They all have motives to set a fire. Jamie- to get back at her vicious boss. Monica- to burn her adulterous husband’s things to the ground. Sally- to collect insurance money on a failed venture. Can you take the heat? The ending will surprise you.
LA is Burning
WGA 1308676
Landlord, The Movie
A Dark Comedy
WGA 1315705
A slumlord who has been scamming people for years gets his come-uppance. In a strange turn of events, he loses his job, his house, and eventually his sanity.
Scripts In progress:
Go Wide - A Holiday Movie with a jock in it
Piece of Work - Surviving the New York Art World
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Cinematic Short Story Complete:
Dysmorphia: *The Tale of Justin Haight and Justin Love*
WGA 1330158, Available Upon Request
Brutality as an answer to an overly homogenous society.
