STARS AND ROBBERS Spec Script! Crime-Drama-Thriller
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Friday, August 15, 2008 |
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STARS AND ROBBERS A 118-page crime-drama Spec Script for Sale! Greetings friends and Hollywood players! Yes, that means all you studio executives, producers, actors, directors and financiers, make-up artists, dog-walkers, etc. Remember when movies were good? And not just good but gritty and they had that extra something special? Like the glory days of decades past when greats like On the Waterfront, Taxi Driver, Three Days of the Condor and Network graced our cinemas? Are you looking for a spec-screenplay that carries on in that tradition yet purrs like a Porsche Carrera with the goods to achieve gold at today's box office? Then look no further than Stars and Robbers, a feature-length high-concept crime-drama-thriller with some real meat on its bones, something for the actors to chew on and the audience to get excited about. What's it about? I’m glad you asked: Logline Stars and Robbers is a crime drama about two last-chance ex-cons who botch a robbery at the home of a philandering movie star and are forced to take everyone hostage when the police and media arrive. Think Dog Day Afternoon and Crash. Are you able to pick out a winning script from a dud? Give Stars and Robbers your consideration and imagine making a great impact movie, sharing with everyone how you were the one to find this diamond project on EBay! Your visionary status as one of the few fearless who create the trends will be cemented forever. And your nose for finding great bargains amidst the flood of scripts in the marketplace will become legendary. Stars and Robbers is a fresh, market-ready script; an exciting (star) vehicle for two male leads and a critical supporting actor and actress role. Here is what reader 'D.S.' at Coverage Ink had to say about a draft of the script: “STARS AND ROBBERS is a very fun movie that simply feels like a movie. Clearly reminiscent of such classics as DIE HARD and DOG DAY AFTERNOON, the movie tackles the tried and true genre of action crime thriller revolving around a hostage standoff. The premise definitely feels fresh and original, as the idea of a major hostage crisis involving a high-profile A-list actor and two petty criminals is something we haven’t really seen before. The writing is stylish and very ballsy. The setting is great – the streets of Los Angeles are captured with vivid edginess.” Brief synopsis Stars and Robbers is a crime-drama-thriller that follows the night when two last-chance ex-cons botch a robbery at the house of a philandering A-list movie star leading to a tense hostage situation. The hostages include several guests, the movie star’s live-in girlfriend and his 7-year-old son. When the stand-off turns into an international media event, the celebrity couple and the criminals must reevaluate their troubled lives with the growing understanding that what separates everyone may not be that great. When a cop is killed and it’s discovered the movie star’s girlfriend is pregnant, more violence threatens to erupt at any moment. A Brief Q & A Who are you and why are you selling your script on EBay and not going the traditional route? I'm a 32-year-old writer and CFC-rated chess expert with a degree in English who is currently mourning the death of great Hollywood movies. I'm selling Stars and Robbers on EBay because the 'traditional' route of query letters and related approaches is ineffective, insular and antiquated for everyone involved in the process. EBay has earned my trust over the years and it's simply the greatest marketplace for bringing together buyers and sellers. If this is a such a great script why is the price so low, relatively speaking? The value of a dollar is different person to person. I am not in this game for the money but to create a writing career on my terms without the hassles and stress of marketing and pitching and meetings and networking all the time. To many writers, the “business” side of screenwriting is extremely counterproductive and flow-killing. After all, one or two days spent in meetings is days or weeks preparing for the meetings and time spent not writing. For about the cost of a typical A-list spec script option, you can own a quality script and you're in business. Please note that I'm willing to entertain all reasonable offers from qualified persons. Why not enter your scripts into screenwriting competitions like everyone else? Because competitions herd writers like cattle and, with the many thousands of entrants, are too hit-or-miss. They do not directly result in script sales. Besides, the lottery mentality that competitions promote is degrading and pernicious to writers who would rather take the road less travelled. Sample Scene One of the ex-cons, Les Normandy, a likeable drug-addict with a lame right hand, hijacks a city bus (scared passengers in the back) and drives it recklessly down Sunset Boulevard while the police are out for his blood! The scene is a mixture of joy and fear as there is a sense of futility to his actions, but we’re rooting for him because it’s the first time in his life anyone has ever paid attention to him. We want him to succeed against all hopes. He lives it up for a minute but it may be his last hurrah. Can he get out alive? Trailer Synopsis We open on LES NORMANDY, a man in trouble. Blood and sweat roll down his face as he stumbles between cars, gun in hand. We’re at a crowded intersection along Sunset Boulevard and the police are closing in on him. Panic and confusion in the area. There’s something big going on here but what it is and how it got to this point we don’t know yet. Les is a minor thief with a lame right hand and would have been eaten up by prison inmates a few years back had SONNY PENTAL, a hardened criminal, not looked after him. Now that they’re both free they yearn for something better in their lives; but to break away from their criminal ways they need money. An opportunity presents itself through some privileged information: easy access to some good pickings at a multi-million dollar home that just so happens to belong to A-list movie star NICK RYDER who’s got the world in the palm of his hand – a beautiful and loving girlfriend, and a happy 7-year old son, money, fame. But look deeper and you’ll find that his polished veneer is cracking. Les reluctantly agrees to the robbery. The night of the robbery Nick entertains several guests in his home. Sonny and Les overpower the only security guard and stealthily move to the master bedroom where the loot is while in a nearby room Nick enjoys a tryst with Caitlin’s best friend. One of the guests stumbles across the robbery and there is a tense fight. The guest is killed. This wasn’t part of the plan. After being discovered, Sonny and Les round up everyone in the house. Nick is angered by the intrusion into his home but plays it smart – for now. His son and his dog hide in the house. The police arrive on the scene and the robbery ignites into a hostage situation. When a brazen paparazzo snaps a telling photograph the media is alerted and the crisis explodes into an international media event. Tensions escalate to a fever pitch when it’s discovered (and leaked to the media) that Caitlin is pregnant! Sonny and Nick think they have each other pegged but they may have more in common than they’re willing to admit, even with such different lives. Holed up in the theater and game room of the house, Sonny, Les, Nick and Caitlin are at a crossroads in their lives: Sonny still feels the prison walls of his former days; Les’ health is deteriorating hour by hour and he’s tired of being defined by his physical deformity; Caitlin doesn’t think she can continue living with Nick’s cheating ways, while he struggles through a mid-life crisis. Then the unthinkable happens: a SWAT officer is killed and now it’s do or die for Sonny and Les. With the world watching and a legion of concerned fans protesting on the streets, how will this play out? Who will survive? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for your consideration. Please support a writer dedicated to bringing quality scripts into the marketplace. If you have the finances in place to purchase this script and are interested in reading Stars and Robbers, contact me at coldscribe@hotmail.com with your particulars and I'll send you the script to read. Because of the semi-public nature of this sale, I would like to politely remind everyone that this script is registered intellectual property and the sale is for film rights. If post-purchase you would like to change the script in any way, to put your own ‘vision’ on it, I may be available for a rewrite or polish. Script resellers welcome to make an offer as well. Estimated budget of script as a movie is over fifteen million. Please relay information of this sale to potential buyers and please forgive the more bold promotional aspects of this listing. Namaste, friends. Screenplay by Mark Stark coldscribe@hotmail.com
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