PREMISE: Vampires attack the 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army during the Battle of Mosul in 2004. Units from the 24th known as “Deuce Four” fight vampire insurgents in the vicinity of the Yarmuk traffic circle, in the heart of western Mosul.
PREMISE: Writers and screenwriters have encountered this roadblock of a phrase many times before: “no unsolicited material” but when a wily and eccentric old African American screenwriter discovers a new Hispanic talent he is no longer willing to tolerate Hollywood’s closed doors. An improbable team maneuver to pitch a movie to a Hollywood heavy.
GENRE: Drama, Hollywood drama
TIME: Contemporary
SETTING: Contemporary
MARKET: USA, International
WRITER: Alan Nafzger
CONTACT: alan.nafzger@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT: 2015
OTHER INFORMATION: This is a compete and ready to shot screenplay.
A character driven “Hollywood” story.
Logline: An improbable writing team, an eccentric African American man and a teen Hispanic male, get a chance to pitch a movie to a Hollywood heavy.
Characters: Joseph de la Cosa (81) holds a grudge against the Hollywood establishment. Juan Rodriguez (19) is a tire repair specialist who listens to everything Joseph says.
Joseph Jefferson · Internal Conflict – disgruntled and jaded writer fights to conceal this from his young mentee. · External Conflict – failed screenwriter vs. the big studios.
Juan Rodriguez · Internal Conflict – debates use of the emulation method vs. produce unique scenes. · External Conflict – young nearly illiterate teen vs. the film industry.
Macro Conflict: East Los Angeles vs. Century City
Micro Conflict: Minority screenwriters vs. Film Industry Executives
Morgan Freeman? Playing the role of Joseph Jefferson can make an actor legendary. He is a very jaded screenwriter. However, he is fighting an internal struggle to keep his young friend from this same fate. Primarily the character of Juan Rodriguez is that of an impressionable young man.
unsolicited material
Film Goals: Layers of fun and inside jokes about screenwriting make this story great fun for writers. But it also has a serious side, a story about trying to make a movie true to life turning into a life that mirrors movies, a kind of philosophical joke. My goal in writing this film is to make it more complex than a single viewing reveals.
PREMISE: A wrongly accused man meets his executioners. In the Eastern mountains of Afghanistan, a condemned, Fahran, insists that he’s innocent of collaborating with the Americans, and faces the task of convincing the Taliban that he’s innocent.
GENRE: Drama, War drama
TIME: 2002
SETTING: Easter frontier of the Afghanistan
MARKET: USA, International
WRITER: Alan Nafzger
CONTACT: alan.nafzger@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT: 2017
OTHER INFORMATION: This is a compete and ready to shot screenplay.
PREMISE: A teacher sentenced to weekends in the county jail learns a little about life and the criminal justice system. He will eventually lead a band of petty criminals in a systematic take-down of serious criminals.
GENRE: Crime drama
TIME: Contemporary
SETTING: Wichita Falls, Texas
MARKET: USA, International
WRITER: Alan Nafzger
CONTACT: alan.nafzger@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT: 2015
OTHER INFORMATION: This is a compete and ready to shot teleplay.
LOGLINE: When a civics teacher and family man is found guilty of a crime he didn’t commit, he is sentenced to weekends in jail. He establishes a new sense of justice and begins doing favors for the offenders he meets there. Slowly he is drawn in deeper the underworld.
Definition Weekender – Slang. Noun. A minor offender sentenced to serve a weekend or series of weekends in jail. This is done so they can continue with school or work, Monday through Friday.
PREMISE: A Moscow reporter mistakes a professional hunter for a politician. Soon the hunter is ushered into high society, and his unaffected hunting wisdom makes him the talk of the town and propels him toward the Russian presidency
GENRE: Adventure, Comedy, Political drama
TIME: Contemporary
SETTING: Moscow, Russia
MARKET: Russia
WRITER: Alan Nafzger
CONTACT: alan.nafzger@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT: 2013
OTHER INFORMATION: This is a reboot of the classic Akira Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala. It is a complete and ready to shot screenplay.
PREMISE: In the Philippines, a woman isn’t supposed to make more money than her husband. But still, a fisherman’s wife becomes an international celebrity causing a disruption of the husband and village’s calm.
GENRE: Romantic comedy.
TIME: Contemporary
SETTING: Philippines
MARKET: Philippines, USA, International
WRITER: Alan Nafzger
CONTACT: alan.nafzger@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT: 2015
OTHER INFORMATION: This is a compete and ready to shot screenplay.
LOGLINE #1: The Fisherman’s Wife is about a young filipino woman having a husband in a village and a job in the city.
LOGLINE #2: Jazzy is the beautiful and charismatic (and restless) wife of Ramon, who is a proud fisherman. In fact, they practically feed their small village. That is until the fish become rare.
PREMISE: A group of socialist/anarchist invade and eventually gain control of a U.S. Corporation.
GENRE: Drama
TIME: Contemporary
SETTING: Manhattan, New York
MARKET: USA, International
WRITER: Alan Nafzger
CONTACT: alan.nafzger@gmail.com
COPYRIGHT: 2015
OTHER INFORMATION: This political and business drama explores the actual intent of Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011 and in a biting satire exposes the mind-set and agenda of socialist/anarchist ideology in America. Orwell’s Animal Farm meets 1984. If you’re on the left, you are not alone.
