• PROJECTS 

 

    

Teleplay

 

  • CYBERCOPS    
               A TV pilot in pre-production 
          

          Working undercover for the US government, foreign countries, multi-national corporations, and
          high-profile individuals, a select team of computer security experts led by a small town sheriff,
          is ready to fly anywhere in the world to thwart the schemes of cyber terrorists.

 


Screenplays

 

  • LITTLEFOOT        
               A true to life story

           
          After her dad’s tow truck collides with a bigfoot on a mountain road, fifteen-year-old Carly helps
          haul the mortally injured creature to the Portland Zoo. As they drive away, no one notices a
          bigfoot  cub climb onto the back of the truck and snuggle up to its dying mother.

          When Carly finds the cub hiding in the garage, word quickly spreads that the Primate Center has
          a Littlefoot.  Will they put him in a cage, displayed like King Kong, or can Carly find a way to
          return him to the wild?  What happens when her plan backfires?

 

  • THOMAS MACDONOUGH AND THE PIRATE PRINCE 
               How Caribbean Pirates Saved America Twice 

          Set against the backdrop of America’s second war with England, the War of 1812, this screenplay
          is based on the true story of two unlikely friends, Thomas Macdonough, a young US Navy officer
          and a famous French pirate, the dashing Jean Lafitte.

          Shanghaied by press-gangs, they find themselves chained together in the brig of a British Man o'
          War.  Lafitte is sentenced to be hanged at dawn.   Lafitte and Macdonough help one another 
          escape from the brig, and pledge to go to each other’s aid if the need should ever arise.  It does. 
          Often.

          From the Caribbean, to the shores of Tripoli, then up to Lake Champlain, and finally at the Battle
          of New Orleans, their adventures intersect with both the villain British Captain, Sir George
          Downie, and the hero of the Battle of Plattsburgh, General Macomb. Using sleight of hand, guts
          and cunning, they outfight and outsmart the “Bloody British,” and save America twice.

 

  • THE GREATEST GREEK    
            Suitable for animation          
                                                                                                                                                                      

          Accused of a crime he did not commit, the general who saves Greece from the Persian hoard is
          banished for life.  His property is confiscated, his family enslaved, and his name cannot be
          spoken again under penalty of death.  

          There comes a time when four young boys, with a little help from the Oracle of Delphi, discover
          the truth, rescue the general’s granddaughter from slavery, and stand in front of the Assembly
          of Athens to shout the General’s name for everyone to hear.

          The teenagers are not very different from youngsters we know today.  In later years, they grew
          to be extraordinary leaders.  Pericles becomes "The Father of the Golden Age of Greece,” 
          Herotodus, a renowned historian, Cimon rises to command the Athenian Army, and Goras
          develops many of our basic scientific and mathematical theories.

          Though the story begins in modern times, The Boatman’s Child is set against the background
          of ancient Athens, when the gods ruled the world from the summit of Mt. Olympus.  


  • THE KNIGHTS OF BARN CASTLE       
               Based on the real story of the Plattsburgh Boys 
     

          In early September of 1814, the British Empire launched the largest invasion ever attempted by
          a foreign power against the mainland of the United States.  It was a three-pronged operation,
          attacking strategic American cities on the Gulf of Mexico, Chesapeake Bay and Lake Champlain.

          When the might of the British Empire descends on the harbor town of Plattsburgh, New York, a
          handful of American children led by Young Henry Averill and his sweetheart Katy O’Rourke, rally
          to the defense of their country, changing the course of American history.  At a critical point in
          the Battle of Plattsburgh, they fort up a sawmill and stop the most powerful military force in
          the world from crossing the Saranac River.

          The youngest child was only nine, the oldest just sixteen. After the war, Congress awards them
          presentation rifles for courage under fire, in those days equivalent to the Medal of Honor. They
          are the youngest people in the history of the United States ever to receive such an award. 

 


Novel


  • THE PLATTSBURGH BOYS     
               An award winning manuscript


        On 9/11, a handful of children change the course of American history.  The year is 1814. 
        Adapted into the screenplay, The Knights of Barn Castle.

 

 

Screenplays in Progress 

 

  • FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE         

         
          In sight of the Golden Gate Bridge, two oil tankers collide on a foggy night in January of 1971,
          creating in an oil spill twice as large as Exxon-Valdez.  In the days that follow, almost every
          protocol now used to fight an oil spill, is developed on the run. With her mayor away on a
          junket, her beaches threatened, her wildlife decimated, it falls to an old political hack to rally
          the people of San Francisco and push back the sea.  Based on real events.

 

  • ATHELSTANE       
      

          The bastard son of a penniless soldier, Athelstane grows to manhood in the service of Hugh
          de Payens, the Grandmaster of the infamous Knights Templar.  When the rampaging army of
          Genghis Khan invades Hungary from the east, these seemingly godless knights -- with nothing
          to gain and everything to loose -- rally their forces on the Plain of Mohi and, against
          overwhelming odds, drive back the Mongol hordes.

 

  • LITTLEFOOT II - THE WIMAHI TRAIL      
      

          The tribe on Mt. Hood is cut off from other Bigfoot populations.  Can Tom and Carly outsmart the
          politicians and big money to move Littlefoot’s family?

 

  • THE SECOND COMING

          A space epic that mixes science, history and religion where little children from all over the world
          -- with a little help from a garage rock band of teenaged boys, and lathy bug-eyed  ET’s called
          the grays -- save the world from a second coming. 

 

  • CANCER BEACH

          A classroom of teenagers from Culver City discovers that a Hollywood movie is the reason
          several  local lifeguards die from cancer.  Based on a true story.