- Published Author - Produced Screenwriter -
James B Brandt
Biringan
SCREENPLAYS
The following screenplays are available for review and purchase, unless otherwise noted. Some have been optioned but in this economy, funding is always iffy and the rights are back with me. Thanks for your interest!
CARROT
(WGA-W Registration # 1565239)
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Romantic Comedy
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When a person is bitten by a werewolf and lives he turns into a werewolf on the full moon. But when a dog is bitten by a werewolf and live, it is not stop laugh. Carrot becomes a people just in time to save her family from a schemer who makes Cruella DeVille in 1001 Dalmatians seem tame.
Pages: 110
There Are No Cows in Hong Kong
(WGA-W Registration #1586885)
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Cop Action
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A Texas Ranger goes to Hong Kong to visit his brother and gets caught up in an organized crime plot to kidnap the brother and to pry out the secret of a new technology he has developed for a Chinese company. Suddenly, a Texas cowboy finds himself knee deep in critters and not a cow in sight.
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Pages: 110
The Man from the Shadows
WGA-W Registration #1284161
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sci fi
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Temporarily rendered a "street person" after a mugging, an off-planet salesman steps in to stop a young girl from being beaten by her date only to discover he is not part of a political game where one side wants them both dead - and that is the side with the big guns, the army, and the tamed vampires.
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Pages: 107
minor crimes
WGA-W Registration #1359094
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Futuristic Cops
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Two LA cops in the New Republic of California stumble into a smuggling ring and are saved by a street urchin they befriended. According to Lang Elliot, formerly with Tri-Star, this is a relationship film using martial arts and a futuristic setting for the backdrop.
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Pages: 110
Death Comes with the Thunder
(WGA-West Registration #1649310)
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Action/Adventure/Thriller - Set in London.
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A well-know IRA Enforcer has been recruited by a British special investigations branch to help track down terrorists now that peace has settled in Ireland, regardless of how tentative. A lead on a new terrorist umbrella group leads through old IRA members. Since he is too well-known in the movement, he recruits his goddaughter to help track down the identities of the arms dealer's customers.
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Pages: 108
Winner Takes All
(WGA-W Registration # 1624861)
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Horror/Occult/Paranormal
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A man seeking revenge for the theft of family property that resulted in the death of his parents arranges a deal with an Egyptian Snake Goddess to trade lives - he kills the victims she selects - people she feels are threats to order and agents (even unwittingly) of chaos - while she takes out the high-profile politicians and businessmen who are harder to reach. (Originally optioned to Off the Field Productions, but the option has expired.)
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Pages: 109
River Run
(WGA-WEST Registration # 1586339)
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Horror/Mythical Beasts
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A group of college kids violate Native American taboos on a camping trip and are eliminated by shape-shifting guardians. Found footage script. (Originally optioned to Lapdog Productions, but the option has expired.)
Pages: 110
The Toymaker
(copyright James B Brandt)
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Paul was looking for something to pull him out of the dumps following a nasty divorce and custody battle. Playing with some toys he had bought his son - but wasn't allowed to deliver - Paul decides to follow-up on the mysterious and reclusive designer. But his trip to Flagstaff is surrounded by murder, alien spacecraft, and confusion. When he finally gets to the designer's house, he has an even more shocking discovery... the toy maker is not human or from this solar system and suddenly both Paul and the creature he has discovered are in mortal danger.
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Pages: 110
Whatever It Takes
(copyright James B Brandt)
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Action
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The son of a contractor is hijacked when he is flying a load of supplies to a job site. Forced to set down in Mexico, he is framed for drug running and his plane is confiscated, to be turned over to the cartels. His father's construction crew, however, has other ideas and sets out to free him from the Mexican jail. (Registered as William Robert Gately)
Pages: 108
R.A.T...S. (Retired Actors of Texas)
(copyright James B Brandt)
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​​ Screwball Comedy
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A devious Green Energy producer wants to take over Prof. Harold Hill's Actor's Rest Home for a wind farm. A group of actors who are living out their favorite parts (The Lone Ranger, Sherlock Homes, Princess Leah, The Mayor of Munchkin and so on) accidentally rob a bank while trying to raise the funds to buy up the mortgage. It goes crazy from there. (Registered as William Robert Gately)
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Pages: 108
Vault of Power
(copyright James B Brandt)
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​​ Screwball Comedy
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Vault of Power - Sword and Sorcery - the captain of the King's Guard sets out with an unlikely band to uncover a sorcerer's plot to unleash the power of the ancients. (Registered as William Robert Gately)
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Pages: 94
Beyond Suspicion
(WGA-W REGISTRATION # )​
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Psychological Thriller
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A police profiler with mild psychic abilities is invited to a writer's home to discuss an upcoming crime novel involving a serial killer he says is responsible for a long list of unsolved murders. The real question is how long it will take her to figure out the identity of the real-life model for the story.
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(Optioned to Ignite Productions, Texas)​
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Pages: 100
Stagehand
(WGA-W REGISTRATION # )​
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Murder/Psychological Thriller
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A community theater group is terrorized by several mysterious deaths during the production of Hamlet - and they are all Ophelia. Literally.
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(This film is not yet available)
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​​A short film version of Stagehand, MURDER AT MIDNIGHT, is available. WGA-W Registration​ 1653994
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Pages: 22
Outpost Seven
(copyright James B Brandt)​
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sci-fi
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A spoiled aristocrat must learn to govern his father's barony during an intergalactic war - and finds love on the edge of the Empire.
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Pages: 110
The Bitter Fruit
(WGA-W Registration #1661936)​
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Horror
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A Filipino co-ed caught in an immigration tangle after her American father dies, goes to the US for college. She is living with her half-sister when she is brutally raped by three young men. Having grown up in a very Catholic culture, she is afraid - and too shamed - to go to the police. Her life begins to dissolve when the men return with threats and promises of repeated rapes. Unable to cope with the situation she grasps at her sister's admonition that their father would demand that she take control of her life - and she does by eliminating the source of her problems... one at a time.
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Pages: 92