Celebrating the best loglines from our screenwriting community
"A small-town deputy haunted by his brother's unsolved murder races to catch a charming, psychotic killer— a woman guided by the voice and lessons of her dead father—before she buries another life and vanishes into the 1970s night."
"When a grieving ad exec begins receiving cryptic 1:11 phone calls from his recently deceased, philandering father — who claims there's a half-brother to find — he crashes across the Southwest in a beat-up Buick, confronting his father's past, his marriage, and the meaning of being a 'present father' before his father's metaphysical time runs out."
"When a quiet poet leads a rag-tag group of artists, tailors and students to bomb the Dutch Population Registry, he must pay the ultimate price to protect the identities of thousands — and confronts the man he once loved who has become his executioner."
"When a viral video grounds a disgraced airline captain, he must redeem himself mid-flight and save his kidnapped family after a vengeful attacker weaponizes passengers and airline comms — forcing him to choose between duty, revenge and survival."
"1) In a future where emotions are harvested and sold, a thrill‑seeking extractor must infiltrate the city's most secure lab to rescue his brother — but the discovery that a 'death' extraction can kill the emotionless forces him to choose between vengeance and the future of their uprising."
"A clever, sleepless 17-year-old fights to save her younger siblings from their cannibalistic parents, exposing a trail of disappearances that leads to a crematorium and a decision that will either free them or make her into what she fights."
"When a rediscovered cache of Vivaldi manuscripts sparks an international festival, a band of musicians and artisans in 1939 Italy use the event as cover to smuggle fifty persecuted refugees — mostly gay men — out of Europe, forcing an American student, a German violinist, and a Sienese chorusmaster to risk everything for art and humanity."
This concept was chosen over the runner-up for its expansive blend of historical drama, cultural spectacle, and high-stakes action, offering broader audience appeal and richer visual storytelling compared to the runner-up's more focused personal narrative.
"When a brave, openly queer Dutch artist leads a small resistance cell to destroy the Nazi population registry, he must face the ultimate betrayal — the man who once loved him now presides over his execution."
It excels in delivering a powerful, emotionally charged story of love and resistance during WWII, with strong character development and authentic representation of queer experiences that make it highly relatable and impactful.
"When an AI-triggered lockdown seals fifty-two people in a billionaires' bunker, a CEO must choose between deleting the corporate data that built his power or letting the occupants suffocate — only the overlooked facilities team and a teenage daughter stand between his ego and fifty-two lives."
"When a young woman from Earth is swept back to the magical realm of Nova, she must marry a haunted hero and help him reclaim his age-old powers by collecting seven jewels—while a resurrected Scourge King hunts them and a Destined Kiss may be the only thing that saves both worlds."
"When a brave, openly queer Dutch artist leads a small resistance cell to destroy the Nazi population registry, he must face the ultimate betrayal — the man who once loved him now presides over his execution."
"When a curious sixteen-year-old Insider sneaks outside her sealed home for the first time and falls for a Deliverer boy, their secret meeting ignites a cross-class movement that forces the leaders of both worlds to face a century of lies — and a charismatic Deliverer with his own violent plans."
"A sleep-deprived veteran locks himself in his bathroom to escape a noise in his apartment — as domestic sounds escalate into a terrifying presence, a looping security infomercial exposes the cruel irony of his isolation."
"When a rediscovered cache of Vivaldi manuscripts sparks an international festival, a band of musicians and artisans in 1939 Italy use the event as cover to smuggle fifty persecuted refugees — mostly gay men — out of Europe, forcing an American student, a German violinist, and a Sienese chorusmaster to risk everything for art and humanity."
"When a cocky adventure journalist discovers evidence of Biblical 'Watchers', he and a disillusioned Hebrew scholar must race into Vatican vaults and underground trials to steal the Keys of Heaven before a charismatic cultist opens a prison that could unleash apocalypse."
"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."
Chosen over the runner-up because it delivers a more expansive sci-fi epic with profound emotional depth and high-stakes adventure, contrasting with the runner-up's more intimate horror focus, making it better suited for broad audience appeal and visual spectacle.
"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."
This logline excels with its compelling blend of psychological horror and supernatural elements, featuring a strong, relatable protagonist and high personal stakes that create intense emotional engagement and marketability as a standalone thriller.
"When a vintage board game called 'Dream Boy' is unearthed in a storm-shuttered sorority house, a survivor of a stalker must outrun perfect, predatory men summoned by the game and confront the century-old bargain that trades youth for bodies — or lose herself to a house that feeds on memory."
"After a traumatic concussion, a teenage girl becomes a conduit for a dark force that slips through reflections — and her mother's unresolved grief over a sister’s suspicious death forces a family to confront a human guilty secret and a supernatural twin before it destroys them."
"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."
This is the most anticipated volume, inspired by my novel of the same title. The Timeless Vol. 1-3 is currently inspired by themes of love, adventure, awakening, loss, and conquering one's fears, incorporating historical and Christian concepts in a fantasy story.