MISSIONARY KID
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Synopsis
RICHARD FLOWERS is an ordinary man. He’s a widower. He loves his garden and golden daffodils. Never misses a service at church. Has very few friends, but his cat and daffodils keep him company. But in one devastating way, he’s remarkably different than you and I. Richard was a key suspect in the disappearance of his daughter ABIGAIL FLOWERS twenty years ago. MERYL STONE is a podcaster in town investigating and telling the story of Abigail’s disappearance. She’s joined by ALLISON ANZALONE, a strong-willed woman with a mysterious connection to Abigail. Together with the help of the crude SHERIFF HOWELL, they keep the pressure on Richard and the decades old disappearance. As the layers of mystery surrounding Abigail’s disappearance slowly gets peeled back, Richard’s world unravels. The Southern, small-town struggles on how to deal with a member of their community being suspected of such a heinous crime. The community takes sides. Some shun. Some pretend nothing ever happened. But when Richard decides to fight back and join the podcast on a livestreamed finale, the community and lead characters are forced to confront how each of their actions and accusations brought us to the devastating outcome. UNDERNEATH THE DAFFODILS is THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI meets PRISONERS. It explores the subjects of gossip, grief and our society’s obsession with true crime all while mixing memorable characters and a mystery that keeps you guessing. |
A small, character-driven crime drama & that could make a cracking SVO thriller. So get it out there, and hope that the right actor to portray Richard signs on because the budget is low and this story is genuinely enthralling. |
BALL DON'T LIE
Feature
Logline: A mercurial, selfish black NBA star wakes up in the 1950s all-white NBA, where his last-placed Lakers are desperate for a championship to break a franchise curse.
Genre: Sports Comedy
Genre: Sports Comedy
BALL DON'T LIE has real potential, is worth further exploring, and |
Synopsis
NBA superstar, Demarcus McGee, doesn’t need much help from his teammates to win. That’s probably a good thing, since the mercurial, selfish star has seemingly alienated himself from nearly everyone in the Los Angeles Lakers organization. Demarcus’s Lakers are in the NBA Finals and they’re down by one. Demarcus is also one assist shy of a record-breaking fifth straight finals triple-double. Demarcus has a chance near the end of the game to take the lead with a wide-open layup. Instead, he passes it to a teammate who’s being defended to get his tenth assist and secure his fifth straight triple-double. The ball is passed back to an open Demarcus who quickly passes it back to another defended player. “Absolutely preposterous and ignominiously indefensible,” says Stephen A. Smith. The crowd boos and the Lakers lose. Demarcus blames everyone else in the post-game interviews and gets in a fight with a teammate in the locker room. After a required meeting with the team’s renowned sports psychologist, Demarcus wakes up in the 1950s NBA as the only black NBA player where segregation is the norm and there’s no such thing as a three pointer. Demarcus has to learn what it means to be a good teammate for the last-placed Lakers to break a curse and get himself sent back to the present before the NBA finals game seven. And why the hell are the Lakers in Minneapolis? BALL DON"T LIE is REMEMEBER THE TITANS meets TED LASSO. This screenplay is a genre hybrid mix of hip-hop, comedy and basketball lore coming together to create a story about teamwork, trust and friendship all while addressing race and hate. It is currently a Semifinalist of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting and the Austin Film Festival Script Competition, and is in the Top 1% of Discoverable Projects on Coverfly. |
