You can see what concepts made it in over the weekend, or scroll straight down to today’s loglines up for voting.
First, we must sadly acknowledge our Scriptshadow In Memoriam. These are the concepts that got vetoed this week. I promise I don’t have a personal vendetta against you, Arthur. As I told Arthur, if you got 20 votes, it means there’s likely an audience out there for your script. So write your script outside of the contest.
The vetoes are: Bound by Arthur, Merger by Formation Wave, Party of One by NormanLuvsMother, Mel’s Pit by Elki, The Torment by Hep Athlete, Badima by Anthony, and Intercept by Arthur.
So, what happens if you didn’t make it? There is still a slim bit of hope for you. I’m putting together a final voting round tomorrow. This will consist of scripts that got close for one reason or another but didn’t get in. However, don’t get your hopes up too high. It will be cutthroat. Only two of the scripts will get in.
Now, let’s officially welcome the below projects into the contest. We’ll start with the Holy Shit Logline Of the Week. That goes to…
Title: JESTER: KING FOR A DAY
Genre: Dark Comedy
Logline: When a cruel king trades places with his jester for a day to prove the fool has it easy, the king unexpectedly dies, leaving the jester legally trapped on the throne just as a rival kingdom launches its long-awaited invasion.
Writer: Moscow Mule
The power of the Kremlin indeed. A great example of someone who worked hard to get their logline right.
And now, for the Golden Ticket winner of the weekend. That’s the script that received the most votes from you guys. We have…
Title: Reset
Genre: Romantic Thriller
Logline: When an assassin falls in love with her target, she voluntarily erases her memory and restarts the mission, forcing him to make her remember she loves him before she kills him.
Tally: 57 votes
Writer: Scott
Scott has won two golden tickets now. The suspense has begun on which script he’ll write for the contest. Maybe you guys can bug him in the comments and get him to spill the beans.
Okay, now, here are the concepts that got in through me. These are the ideas that I liked best from the weekend…
Title: All Along the Watchtower
Genre: Contained Thriller
Logline: Told entirely from his watchtower during a prison riot, an unassuming guard discovers the uprising is an elaborate false flag operation orchestrated by a drug cartel, corrupt federal agents, and his fellow guards, and that he’s being set up as the fall guy.
Writer: Steffan
Title: Open House
Genre: Thriller
Logline: During the first open house in an empty luxury development, a real estate agent is hunted through the development’s finished and unfinished homes by a family convinced she knowingly sold them the mold-infested house that killed their daughter.
Writer: Joe Rustler
Title: Blacksite
Genre: Action Thriller / Survival
Logline: When a military flight containing dangerous detainees crashes in the Arctic, the survivors, both soldiers and criminals alike, must work together to survive both the elements and the mysterious creature hunting them in the snow.
Writer: Maggie Kebler
Title: The Pecking Order
Genre: Thriller
Logline: When a former bully is wrongfully imprisoned for manslaughter, he is horrified to discover that the warden of the prison is his former victim. As the now psychotic warden’s twisted revenge begins intensifying, the prisoner becomes more and more desperate to escape.
Writer: Elki
Title: Salvage
Genre: Action
Logline: To save his family’s failing business, a salvage captain leads his skeleton crew into a naval war zone to recover a $50 million drifting freighter against better-equipped rivals and incoming airstrikes.
Writer: Dipper Pines
And then here are the rest of the scripts that got in on votes…
Title: Earshot
Genre: Thriller
Logline: On an anniversary trip to the remote resort where they honeymooned, a deaf woman’s new implant activates ahead of schedule — and the first thing she hears is her husband meticulously planning her murder; now she must survive the week without ever letting him suspect she can hear.
Tally: 37 votes
Writer: Branko Maksic
Title: Firecane
Genre: Action
Logline: When a Category 5 hurricane ruptures and ignites a 300-mile-wide offshore gas field, the engineer behind its failed safety system must fight across a burning platform to cut off the fuel before the storm carries the fires ashore and sets the entire Gulf Coast ablaze.
Tally: 34 votes
Writer: Jaco
Title: Tree Huggers
Genre: Horror
Logline: Environmental activists and the mercenaries sent to stop them become unlikely allies when the protected forest they battle over reveals its trees have become sentient predators.
Tally: 26 votes
Writer: Josephy Jay Carroll Jr.
Title: Take Her Out
Genre: Comedy
Logline: A hitman boards a luxury singles’ cruise to discreetly eliminate his next target, only for his widowed mother to sneak aboard and decide the woman he has been hired to kill is his perfect match.
Tally: 26 votes
Writer: Shewrites
Title: In My Suburb The Children Mow Lawns
Genre: Sci-fi/Drama
Logline: When a young housewife makes an accidental discovery at City Hall she’s torn between preserving her ideal life and exposing a classified social experiment: the integration of humans and extraterrestrials.
Tally: 24 votes
Writer: Levres De Sang
Title: MÖBIUS HIGHWAY
Genre:
Science Fiction Thriller
Logline: When a spatial-loop seals LA’s busiest highway interchange, a group of stranded drivers must decipher a way to escape before the contracting anomaly crushes them out of existence.
Tally: 23 votes
Writer: Enoch
Title: On Set Guardian
Genre: Comedy
Logline: A washed-up former child star is transported back in time and forced to become the on-set guardian to Disney’s biggest up-and-coming star and total nightmare—her 10-year-old self.
Tally: 23 votes
Writer: T D
Title: Help
Genre: Thriller
Logline: After the death of their billionaire boss, the staff of his secluded island estate make an uneasy agreement: keep it secret and live in opulence for once. But when they discover a hidden safe, their pact quickly gives way to greed, paranoia, and betrayal.
Tally: 22 votes
Writer: bigtimetimmyjim
HERE BEGINS THE CONCEPTS YOU’RE VOTING ON!
Each logline will have an accompanying comment in the comment section. To vote for it, simply UPVOTE the idea you like. You can upvote as many ideas as you want. But please don’t just upvote your friends. Upvote the movies you believe you’d pay to see in a theater. It helps me identify which concepts the public would actually go to see.
The TOP 5 VOTE-GETTERS will get into the contest.
Title: Stay Awake
Genre: Survival Thriller
Logline: When a mysterious phenomenon makes falling asleep deadly, a disgraced researcher must lead her family across a collapsing country to finish her controversial sleep experiment that could be the only way to stop it — before they close their eyes for good.
Writer: Dkushner
Title: Hood
Genre: Action
Logline: Iraq war veteran Robin Locke returns home to give back to his city, which is now a battlefield under a drug lord’s rule, forcing him to turn his wartime instincts into a one-man resistance and give hope to its impoverished citizens.
Writer: jbird669
Title: 4D CHESS
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Logline: In a future where time travel has been perfected, you’d think detectives would have it easy, getting to the scene of a crime before it’s even happened; but the biggest criminals also have the tech and are able to arrange alibis, frames and false leads for felonies that may not happen for months or years. Welcome to homicide 2066.
Writer: Brenkilco
Title: Van Damned
Genre: Comedy
Logline: A group of ageing action-movie obsessives find themselves trapped in a real-life Die Hard scenario — and finally get to test whether any of that movie knowledge is actually useful.
Writer: Tom Savage
Title: DMV Lifer
Genre: Comedy
Logline: A Local Man gets trapped in a time loop at the DMV and discovers that he’d rather spend eternity registering his car than go home to his psychoanalyst wife of twenty years.
Writer: FanofYou
Title: Dreamland
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Logline: A simple-minded man sneaks aboard a plane in search of a better life in Switzerland, only to land in a war-torn country instead, where he happily mistakes the horrors of war for ordinary Swiss life while unwittingly becoming an unlikely symbol of hope. The Party meets Life is Beautiful
Writer: Romer6
Title: Ice Blue Screen
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
Logline: When a skeleton maintenance crew is sent to reboot the world’s largest AI data center buried under the Greenland ice sheet, they discover its supercomputer has gone offline on purpose — diverting all power into melting something two miles below. It isn’t a malfunction. It’s a rescue.
Writer: ElDave1
Title: A Little Versailles
Genre: Comedy
Logline: When a Marie Antoinette biopic spirals into chaos, an overwhelmed indie director and her crew abandon the shoot to live an idyllic 18th-century life inside its elaborate prop village, provoking studio executives to lay siege their improvised paradise.
Writer: Kiya Opstrup
Title: One Wrong Move
Genre: Survival Horror/Thriller
Logline: After a billionaire botanist sends a distress call from his remote island, a rescue team enters his secret Garden of Eden— only to discover the paradise is one colossal predatory plant, forcing them to navigate its labyrinth of deadly traps to reach him.
Writer: Dkushner2006
Title: Underspan
Genre: Action / Survival Thriller
Logline:
When a megawildfire engulfs the world’s largest suspension bridge, trapping thousands of motorists above, a suspended firefighter must climb beneath the burning span to rescue survivors before its superheated cables snap, sending the bridge crashing into the river below.
Writer: HeyNotHeMan!!!!
Voting ends at 11:59pm Pacific Time Tuesday (August 4th).
To see all 10 contenders below, you can filter Disqus comments by “Oldest.” Filtering by “Best” is not as good but is an okay backup.
