Celebrating the best loglines from our screenwriting community
"When a remote Colorado town is ravaged by a genetically engineered blight that binds animal instincts to mountain life, a wildlife officer discovers her missing father's secret project—and the infection that killed him has made her the last, terrible line of defense."
"When a wildlife officer investigating a brutal, inexplicable attack uncovers a buried army lab and a fungal intelligence that is turning the Rockies into a living hive, she must choose between stopping the contagion or becoming the mountain’s final, terrifying apex."
"A grieving engineer whose world is literally woven into a cosmic Connection Matrix will risk everything — and bargain with a sentient satellite AI — to pull back the single thread that cost him his wife, only to discover every rescue has a catastrophic price."
"When a demon cult prepares to tear open a portal during a once-in-a-millennia planetary alignment, a young psychiatrist inheriting both a haunted family fortune and her mother’s occult gifts must become the last line of defense to stop the invasion — even if victory costs her everything."
"When his science-officer wife is fused to an alien crystalline consciousness and falls into stasis, a battle-tested starship captain must lead a ragtag crew into the future—into the arms of a mysterious intelligence—to recover her and prevent a threat that spans millennia."
"A grief-haunted ex-FBI agent hunts the analog reincarnation of a murderous AI through a ruined, retrofitted world of typewriters, cathode-ray cores and church bell transmitters — and must confront the creator who birthed the monster if he hopes to rescue the wife he lost to the machine."
This concept was selected over the runner-up because it combines high-stakes action with timely AI themes and broader commercial potential, whereas the runner-up focuses more on intimate emotional exploration without the same level of visceral excitement.
"After a small-town hum opens a tear between parallel domestic realities, a grieving designer trapped between worlds must race the boundary of erasure to find the husband who vanished — before she fades from her own life forever."
It stands out with its innovative use of parallel universes to explore deep themes of grief and identity, creating a visually striking and emotionally resonant narrative.
"When an openly queer artist leads a daring Resistance attack on the Nazi Population Registry, he must face the brutal cost of defiance when his former lover—now an SS commander—returns to pronounce judgment."
"A grief-haunted farmhand and lisping former high-school lineman must walk on at Auburn to win back his family farm—facing boosters, a brutal SEC, and his own fear—with one last, improbable touchdown as the town’s fate hangs in the balance."
"When a covert SOG recovery mission goes disastrously wrong, a haunted operative must confront the man he once called brother — now a superheated weapon created by the same secret program that turned them both — and stop a new generation of augmented killers before they reshape warfare."
"A grief-haunted ex-FBI agent hunts the analog reincarnation of a murderous AI through a ruined, retrofitted world of typewriters, cathode-ray cores and church bell transmitters — and must confront the creator who birthed the monster if he hopes to rescue the wife he lost to the machine."
"After a small-town hum opens a tear between parallel domestic realities, a grieving designer trapped between worlds must race the boundary of erasure to find the husband who vanished — before she fades from her own life forever."
"A hapless Bronx car salesman on the run after a blind date massacre is mistaken for a legendary assassin—now he must survive Valentine’s Day, a mob boss’s vendetta, and the revelation that the mysterious Red Rose who’s been protecting him is the absentee father he never knew."
"A fresh-faced college grad takes his first day selling cars at a morally bankrupt dealership and must decide how far he'll go to pay rent, keep his fiancée, and survive a system that rewards lies."
"A burned-out ex-CIA operative haunted by Arthurian dreams must learn to time-travel with the help of a wisecracking Merlin to stop a presidential investigator’s assassination, discover who murdered his parents, and save a makeshift family — before the past and future erase everything he loves."
Chosen over the runner-up for its innovative fusion of time-travel, Arthurian mythology, and personal redemption, which creates a more layered and emotionally complex narrative with broader thematic appeal, compared to the runner-up's more singular focus on sci-fi action and individual heroism.
"When a former girl-scout-turned-wrestler discovers she carries a fragment of an alien meteorite in her arm, she must race against a megalomaniacal scientist to rescue her kidnapped father and stop a weapon that can rewrite life itself."
This concept shines with its fresh blend of wrestling and sci-fi elements, offering high-stakes action, strong character development, and a compelling female protagonist that could translate into a visually dynamic and emotionally engaging film.
"A burned-out ex-CIA operative haunted by Arthurian dreams must learn to time-travel with the help of a wisecracking Merlin to stop a presidential investigator’s assassination, discover who murdered his parents, and save a makeshift family — before the past and future erase everything he loves."
"An undefeated, retired boxing champion is pulled back into the ring when a tech company engineers an AI-generated viral fight to humiliate a social-media star — but when the company offers to fund the champion's granddaughter’s life-saving treatment in exchange for one last bout, he must risk everything for a second chance at glory and family."
"When a warm-hearted, forty-something London receptionist who talks to angels decides to stop waiting for life to happen, her meddling, glamorous guardian angel forces her into messy, hilarious attempts at career reinvention, love, and purpose."
"A meticulous brand strategist whose life is built around perfect timing begins experiencing literal 'rewinds'—moments of sensory collapse that undo her instincts. As her panic episodes threaten her work and the new relationship she’s finally allowed herself to have, she must decide whether to keep editing the world to feel safe, or surrender to the messy human moments that make love possible."
"A guilt‑haunted FBI agent who joined to save the innocent must protect a young woman who can speak to a changing Earth, while a shadowy government project decides whether to weaponize, contain—or destroy—the next stage of human evolution."
"A Hollywood 'sweetheart' who’s been living by other people's scripts secretly begins stripping in a Van Nuys club and, through a double life as a dancer, rediscovers the messy freedom to choose herself — even after a tabloid leak threatens to destroy everything she’s built."
I draw most of my inspiration from the state of Colorado