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New Screenplay July 2021
SMATTERED is a Comedy with Dramatic and Existential undertones, that introduces us to 6 intelligent, complex characters, each desperately trying to live an authentic life, but wreaking havoc as they do.
I am also creating a Stage Play version of this Screenplay.
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DEEP FAKE & AI TECHNOLOGY IN THE HANDS OF A MADMAN!
The story of a powerful and brilliant Media ex-CIA Strategist and Psychopath, with unlimited resources, who orchestrates an unimaginable disaster to stun the nation framing the innocent to appear as criminals for the entire world to see as he spins his web of deception – all to reap huge advertising profits. One lone victim’s mother, a criminal psychologist whose child he murdered in cold blood, is forced to summons her courage, infiltrate his dangerous regime, expose him to the world!
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THE GARDEN
A one-time Wall Street bad-ass, now a burnt out recluse in a wheelchair hiding in his wonderland compound upstate, meets a desperate to be famous journalist seeking the hottest story of the day. Both are hiding from a past of immense abuse and suffering, that surfaces as they embrace one another’s lives, in his garden.
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HOME
Told through the memories of a very old man, Home, is a coming of age story about a boy growing up in the Great Depression. He is torn between his poverty-stricken parents, and Mount Sinai, a home and school for boys in Vermont where he is sent because his parents can no longer afford to take care of him. It’s a story about growing up, but not just as a boy – as a country. Home, is the story of all of our lives, as we rise above hardship, learn about the meanings of family, community, and the intrinsic value of human existence.
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WE THE PEOPLE
A high-concept, funny and timely film with a powerfully funny role for a great comic actor, surrounding an outlandish journey of an unlikely hero that gets sucked into a whirlwind of corruption, in the world of politics and its dirty laundry.
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MEN AND THE SEA
Men and the Sea is the story of the clashing of two cultures violently struggling for the future in a small chantey fishing town dating back to the Mayflower.
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TIMEKEEPER
Based on historical events in 1700’s England, but relevant to the current times we live in, TIMEKEEPER, is the story of the tumultuous forty-year struggle between John Harrison, a country bumpkin genius clock maker, and Nevil Maskelyne, a royal astronomer of little talent but great wealth and political power, who battled almost to the death, for the huge prize offered by Parliament for solving the mystery of Longitude.
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EYES IN THE DARK
John Hamlet, an actor seeking art for art sake is confronted by the harsh realities of the acting business, type-casting him and attempting to manipulate him to take a leading role in ‘Sharkbait Crimeboss’ with the hottest new action/adventure/Italian-mafia star.
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John Monteleone
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