Last week we had the official Logline Showdown. But there were so many good entries in the comedy genre, I decided to do a second showdown week just for the comedy entries. That’s what’s so great about Scriptshadow. You never know what’s going to happen next!! There are no rules!
Well, except that you have to vote for your favorite logline in the comment section and that you have until Sunday, February 9th, at 11:59pm Pacific Time to cast your vote.
Also, get those first pages ready for First Page Showdown, which is just 3 weeks away.
What: First Page Showdown
When: Friday, February 28
Deadline: Thursday, February 27, 10pm Pacific Time
Submit: A script title, a genre, and your first page
Where: carsonreeves3@gmail.com
Onto the competition. Maybe the funniest logline win!
Title: Higher Than The Moon
Genre: Comedy
Logline: Convinced by a cocaine loving alien that they can make a fortune in the intergalactic drug trade, ambitious New Jersey mobsters kidnap a disgraced NASA scientist and task him with developing a space program for the mob.
Title: Globe Busters
Genre: Comedy Drama
Logline: A lonely NY journalist reports at a flat earth convention and joins an extreme conspiracy society known as the Globe Busters where together they embark on an expedition to Antarctica to climb the Ice Wall and reach the edge of the world.
Title: THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE
Genre: Sci-Fi Comedy
Logline: Two feuding inventors with a lifelong rivalry use their newly created time machines to destroy the other’s past, present, and future, in order to be remembered in history as the father of time travel. TIME AFTER TIME meets GRUMPY OLD MEN
Title: UNPROTECTED
Genre: Comedy/Action
Logline: A former unwitting mob doctor turned small-town veterinarian must rally his skeptical family to survive after FBI budget cuts kick them out of Witness Protection and put them back in the mob’s crosshairs.
Title: Meet Me in the Middle
Genre: Comedy
Logline: A transgender rights activist and a January 6th rioter find themselves seated next to each other on a chaotic holiday flight out of D.C., only to be quickly added to the No-Fly List. What follows is a planes, trains, and automobiles journey through middle America, where the unlikely duo must navigate their differences, find common ground, and muster a bit of compassion—all in the hope of keeping America’s holiday dinners drama-free.
Title: Adultery Alert
Genre: Romantic comedy (meets Minority Report)
Logline: In the near future, technology can predict cheating, allowing couples to break up before experiencing the trauma. So when Mark discovers, ahead of his fiancée, that one of them is going to cheat before their wedding, he will do everything he can to prevent it and keep her from finding out about the alert.
Title: T’d Up
Genre: Comedy
Forced into retirement and facing bankruptcy, the NBA’s most notorious trash-talker becomes a referee to claw his way back into the league and prove everyone wrong.
Title: IPOwen
Genre: Comedy
Logline: When a down-on-his-luck insurance agent in a dead-end town loses his wife, his job and his apartment on the same day he turns 40, he decides to reboot his life by putting himself on the stock market, with an army of shareholders controlling his every decision.
Title: DEI HARD
Genre: Action Comedy
Logline: Due to DEI cutbacks, a portly and aging female assassin is unceremoniously shit-canned and forced to take a job working the front desk at hotel, but her past skills become helpful when the building is invaded by her former employers sent there to kill a star witness, her new asshole boss.
