🏆 Logline Contest Winners

Celebrating the best loglines from our screenwriting community

🔥 HIGHLIGHT
Latest Weekly Winner
🥈 WEEKLY WINNER
Nov 9, 2025

"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."

🏆 Judge's Verdict

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.

🏅 Runner-Up Notes

"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.

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Daily Loglines & Past Winners
DAILY WINNER
Nov 15, 2025
Ruthless

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it offers a highly original psychological thriller with strong emotional stakes and broad marketability, distinguishing it from the other ideas.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 10/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of a psychotic killer guided by her dead father's voice is unique and memorable, blending personal trauma with suspense in a compelling way.
  • Audience Appeal: Serial killer thrillers have a large, enthusiastic audience in Hollywood, with timeless appeal for fans of crime dramas and psychological suspense.
  • Story Potential: The narrative promises high-stakes conflict through the deputy's personal vendetta and the killer's elusive nature, allowing for deep character development and intense twists.
Crime 35% Drama 45% Thriller 25% Horror 15% Action 10%
Ruthless
DAILY WINNER
Nov 14, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it masterfully blends a unique supernatural element with emotional family drama and high-stakes adventure, creating a compelling and marketable narrative core.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of receiving cryptic calls from a dead father is highly unique and memorable, effectively merging grief, mystery, and the supernatural into a fresh concept.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to a wide audience that enjoys emotional, character-driven stories with fantastical elements, similar to successful films like 'The Sixth Sense', ensuring broad appeal.
  • Story Potential: The concept offers strong narrative potential with escalating conflicts, high personal stakes involving family secrets and a ticking clock, promising an engaging and emotionally resonant story.
Script: What the World Needs Now
By: Richard
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DAILY WINNER
Nov 13, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it masterfully blends historical resistance with intimate personal betrayal, creating a high-stakes drama with emotional depth that stands out for its thematic richness and narrative intensity.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of a quiet poet leading a bombing mission and confronting a former lover turned executioner is highly unique and emotionally compelling, making it memorable and intriguing.
  • Audience Appeal: It has strong marketability to fans of historical thrillers and dramas, with potential for critical acclaim and a dedicated audience interested in real-world inspired stories.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a gripping narrative with intense conflicts, high personal and societal stakes, and deep emotional layers from the betrayal and sacrifice elements.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 12, 2025
FINAL FLIGHT

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its high-stakes, cinematic blend of personal redemption and intense action in a confined setting, offering a compelling and marketable narrative.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The concept is highly unique and memorable with the twist of a disgraced pilot facing a hijacked flight and weaponized passengers, creating immediate tension and intrigue.
  • Audience Appeal: It is highly marketable as a high-octane action thriller with broad appeal to fans of films like 'Die Hard' or 'Non-Stop', driven by universal themes of revenge and survival.
  • Story Potential: The idea promises a gripping narrative with strong conflicts arising from the protagonist's moral dilemmas between duty, revenge, and family survival, ensuring high stakes and emotional depth.
Thriller 55% Action 35% Drama 45% Crime 25%
FINAL FLIGHT
DAILY WINNER
Nov 11, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won because its innovative sci-fi premise of harvesting emotions combines high-concept originality with deep personal and societal stakes, making it highly engaging and marketable.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a dystopian world where emotions are harvested and sold is highly unique and memorable, offering a fresh twist on human experiences and sci-fi tropes.
  • Audience Appeal: It has strong marketability to sci-fi enthusiasts and broader audiences interested in themes of technology and emotion, especially in a era of growing concerns about digital impacts on humanity.
  • Story Potential: The narrative promises compelling conflict with high personal stakes in rescuing a brother, moral dilemmas about 'death' extractions, and the potential for a large-scale uprising, leading to a rich and thrilling story.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 10, 2025
Permissible

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it features a highly original and intense hook with strong emotional and physical stakes, promising a gripping narrative that appeals to a dedicated horror audience.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core concept of a teen battling cannibalistic parents is highly unique and memorable, blending horror with family dynamics in a compelling way that grabs attention.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to horror and thriller enthusiasts who crave dark, suspenseful stories with taboo elements, ensuring a clear and enthusiastic fanbase.
  • Story Potential: The idea offers rich narrative potential with high-stakes conflicts, moral dilemmas, and emotional depth as the protagonist fights for survival and family redemption.
Drama 60% Horror 40% Thriller 30% Crime 25%
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Permissible
DAILY WINNER
Nov 9, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept stands out for its timely AI-driven conflict, high-stakes moral dilemma, and broad appeal in the thriller genre, making it highly engaging and marketable.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of an AI-induced bunker lockdown forcing a CEO into a life-or-death ethical choice is unique and memorable, capitalizing on current fears about artificial intelligence.
  • Audience Appeal: With the rise of AI in popular discourse, this concept has strong marketability and would attract a wide audience of thriller and sci-fi enthusiasts seeking relevant, edge-of-seat entertainment.
  • Story Potential: The setup promises compelling conflict with high stakes, including the tension of a sealed bunker, moral decisions, and interpersonal dynamics that drive a gripping narrative.
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DAILY WINNER
Nov 8, 2025
The Timeless: The Movie Vol. III - Remember

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it offers a high-stakes fantasy adventure with romantic and heroic elements, providing a compelling blend of escapism, conflict, and emotional depth that stands out for its narrative potential and broad marketability.
Hook Strength 8/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core concept of a woman from Earth being swept into a magical realm to marry a haunted hero and collect jewels is compelling and memorable, blending familiar fantasy tropes with personal stakes like a Destined Kiss.
  • Audience Appeal: Fantasy adventures have a massive, dedicated fanbase with crossover appeal to romance and action enthusiasts, making this idea highly marketable in today's blockbuster-driven market.
  • Story Potential: The narrative promises strong conflict through a villainous hunt, high stakes in saving two worlds, and character-driven elements like the marriage and jewel quest, allowing for rich development and tension.
Fantasy 60% Action 30% Romance 25% Drama 40% War 20%
From the Author:

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.

The Timeless: The Movie Vol. III - Remember
DAILY WINNER
Nov 7, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won overall due to its highly original and emotionally charged blend of historical WWII resistance with a personal queer betrayal narrative, offering strong hook, appeal, and story potential.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of a queer artist in WWII resistance facing betrayal from a former lover is uniquely compelling and memorable, merging historical drama with intimate emotional conflict.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to audiences interested in WWII history and LGBTQ+ themes, with a dedicated fanbase in both arthouse and mainstream markets due to its timely social relevance.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a gripping narrative with high-stakes conflict, including personal betrayal, life-threatening resistance, and moral dilemmas that drive emotional depth and tension.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 6, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept stands out for its fresh blend of forbidden romance, dystopian intrigue, and social rebellion, offering a highly marketable and narratively rich idea with broad appeal.
Hook Strength 8/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 8/10
  • Hook Strength: The core concept of a cross-class romance igniting a rebellion in a sealed society is compelling and memorable, blending familiar tropes with a unique dystopian twist.
  • Audience Appeal: It targets a large and enthusiastic young adult demographic with themes of love, social injustice, and adventure, similar to successful franchises like The Hunger Games.
  • Story Potential: The idea promises strong conflicts through personal relationships, societal lies, and a violent antagonist, leading to high stakes and emotional depth in the narrative.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 5, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it offers a fresh, psychologically intense horror idea that stands out from the overused portal fantasy tropes by focusing on real-world isolation and escalating terror.
Hook Strength 8/10
Audience Appeal 7/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core concept of a veteran's mundane noise escalating into terrifying psychological horror with ironic commentary is unique and memorable, blending everyday fears with supernatural elements effectively.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to horror enthusiasts and those interested in mental health themes, with a clear audience in the thriller genre, though it may not appeal to mass mainstream viewers.
  • Story Potential: The idea promises a compelling narrative with high-stakes personal conflict, escalating tension in a confined space, and deep emotional layers from the veteran's isolation and the ironic infomercial element.
DAILY WINNER
Nov 4, 2025
Music and other Arts of War

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept excels due to its innovative fusion of historical events, artistic elements, and humanitarian themes, creating a deeply engaging and relevant narrative.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of musicians using a Vivaldi festival in 1939 Italy to smuggle persecuted refugees is highly unique and memorable, blending art, history, and espionage in a fresh way.
  • Audience Appeal: The story's focus on WWII refugee smuggling and inclusion of marginalized groups like gay men makes it highly marketable to audiences interested in historical dramas, social justice, and inspirational tales.
  • Story Potential: The concept offers strong conflict through the dangers of wartime smuggling, personal risks, and moral dilemmas, with high stakes that promise a compelling and emotionally charged narrative.
Drama 50% Thriller 35% War 30% Action 15% Romance 10% Comedy 5%
Music and other Arts of War
DAILY WINNER
Nov 3, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its highly engaging blend of action-adventure, religious mythology, and high-stakes thriller elements, offering a unique and marketable narrative with strong potential for conflict and character depth.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of an adventure journalist racing to stop a Biblical apocalypse using ancient keys is highly unique and memorable, combining historical intrigue with high-octane action.
  • Audience Appeal: It has broad marketability, appealing to fans of adventure films like Indiana Jones and those interested in conspiracy and religious themes, ensuring a wide and enthusiastic audience.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a compelling narrative with intense conflict, high stakes involving the potential end of the world, and dynamic character interactions between the journalist and scholar.
🥈 WEEKLY WINNER
Nov 2, 2025

"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."

🏆 Judge's Verdict

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.

🏅 Runner-Up Notes

"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.

DAILY WINNER
Nov 2, 2025
Dream Boy

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its highly original and compelling hook involving a cursed board game, combined with strong story potential for suspense and character-driven horror.
Hook Strength 8/10
Audience Appeal 7/10
Story Potential 8/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a vintage board game summoning predatory entities is unique and memorable, blending supernatural horror with psychological thriller elements in a fresh way.
  • Audience Appeal: It appeals to dedicated horror fans and those interested in supernatural mysteries, with a clear market in the horror genre, though it may not have broad mainstream appeal.
  • Story Potential: The concept offers high-stakes conflict with survival against summoned dangers, deep personal stakes involving memory and identity, and opportunities for suspenseful twists and character growth.
Horror 60% Thriller 40% Drama 30% Fantasy 20%
Dream Boy
DAILY WINNER
Nov 1, 2025
The Mirror Principle

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept wins for its powerful fusion of supernatural horror and emotional family drama, creating a highly compelling and marketable narrative with broad appeal.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a concussion unleashing a dark force through reflections is highly unique and memorable, blending psychological trauma with supernatural elements in a fresh way.
  • Audience Appeal: It targets a wide audience in the horror genre by combining thrilling supernatural scares with relatable themes of grief and family secrets.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises intense conflict and high stakes through the interplay of human guilt, supernatural threats, and family dynamics, allowing for deep character development and suspense.
Drama 50% Horror 40% Thriller 30% Comedy 10% Crime 5%
From the Author:

I love connecting science to magic in my writing. We should consider that there may be far more magic in our reality than we understand.

The Mirror Principle
DAILY WINNER
Oct 30, 2025
APEX

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it delivers a fresh, high-stakes sci-fi horror premise that blends real-world ecological fears with intense action and moral conflict, making it highly engaging and marketable.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a fungal intelligence transforming the Rockies into a living hive is highly unique and compelling, tapping into primal fears of nature gone wrong in a memorable way.
  • Audience Appeal: It is marketable to a broad audience interested in contemporary eco-horror and thriller genres, especially given the timeliness of contagion and environmental themes.
  • Story Potential: The concept offers strong narrative potential with escalating conflicts, high personal and global stakes, and a protagonist's moral dilemma in stopping a spreading threat.
Script: APEX
By: Dane
Horror 50% Thriller 40% Science Fiction 25% Action 30% Drama 25% Fantasy 15%
From the Author:

I draw most of my inspiration from the state of Colorado

APEX
DAILY WINNER
Oct 29, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its highly original and emotionally charged sci-fi premise that combines personal loss with cosmic consequences, offering a fresh and compelling narrative idea.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 7/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a grieving engineer bargaining with a sentient AI in a cosmic matrix to alter the past is highly unique, compelling, and memorable, blending personal emotion with grand-scale science fiction.
  • Audience Appeal: It has strong marketability among sci-fi enthusiasts and those interested in AI themes, though its niche elements may limit broader appeal compared to more conventional genres.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a rich narrative with intense personal conflict, high stakes involving catastrophic consequences, and deep emotional layers through the engineer's journey and moral dilemmas.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 28, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won because it offers a high-stakes supernatural thriller with a unique blend of personal legacy and cosmic horror, providing strong hook, appeal, and narrative depth.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a psychiatrist inheriting occult gifts to stop a demon cult during a planetary alignment is highly unique and memorable, merging psychological elements with epic horror.
  • Audience Appeal: It has broad marketability, appealing to horror and supernatural thriller fans with its high-concept premise and universal stakes of good versus evil.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a compelling narrative with intense conflicts, high personal and global stakes, and opportunities for character growth and escalating tension.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 27, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept wins for its high-concept sci-fi premise that masterfully blends personal stakes with epic, universe-threatening conflict, offering broad appeal and rich narrative potential.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a starship captain racing through time to save his wife fused to an alien consciousness is highly unique and memorable, combining intimate drama with cosmic scale.
  • Audience Appeal: It is highly marketable to sci-fi fans and general audiences who enjoy thrilling space adventures, with strong potential for visual effects and cross-demographic draw.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a compelling narrative with high stakes, deep character conflicts, and a multi-layered plot involving time-spanning threats and personal redemption.
🥈 WEEKLY WINNER
Oct 26, 2025

"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."

🏆 Judge's Verdict

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.

🏅 Runner-Up Notes

"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.

DAILY WINNER
Oct 26, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept wins due to its highly original blend of personal romantic conflict and high-stakes historical drama, offering a fresh and emotionally charged perspective on WWII resistance.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of an openly queer artist facing off against his former lover turned SS commander in a resistance attack is uniquely compelling and memorable for its intimate betrayal within a grand historical context.
  • Audience Appeal: The concept is marketable to a broad audience interested in WWII dramas and LGBTQ+ stories, with timely relevance that could attract both mainstream viewers and awards consideration.
  • Story Potential: It promises a gripping narrative with strong conflicts between personal relationships and wartime loyalties, high stakes involving life and death, and deep emotional and moral dilemmas.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 25, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won as the sole entry by delivering a strong, emotionally charged underdog story with high-stakes sports drama.
Hook Strength 8/10
Audience Appeal 7/10
Story Potential 8/10
  • Hook Strength: The core idea of a grief-stricken farmhand using college football to reclaim his family's legacy is unique and memorable, blending personal trauma with athletic spectacle.
  • Audience Appeal: The concept appeals to sports enthusiasts and fans of inspirational dramas, with its heartland setting and redemption arc making it marketable to a broad American audience.
  • Story Potential: It promises a compelling narrative with multilayered conflicts, including internal fears, external rivalries in the SEC, and high stakes tied to the town's survival.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 24, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept wins due to its compelling blend of personal betrayal and high-stakes action in a sci-fi setting, offering rich emotional depth and broad narrative possibilities.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of an operative confronting his augmented brother from a shared secret program is highly unique and memorable, combining family drama with sci-fi elements in a fresh way.
  • Audience Appeal: It is highly marketable to fans of action-thrillers and sci-fi genres, with clear appeal similar to successful films involving augmented humans and personal conflicts.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises strong conflict through personal transformation, loyalty dilemmas, and global stakes in stopping augmented killers, allowing for a dynamic and engaging narrative.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 23, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its highly original and compelling blend of sci-fi elements with personal grief, offering a fresh hook, strong marketability, and deep narrative potential.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 8/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of hunting a murderous AI reincarnated in analog form is highly unique and memorable, blending technology horror with a personal vendetta effectively.
  • Audience Appeal: It taps into current fears about AI and technology, making it marketable to sci-fi and thriller audiences who enjoy high-concept stories with emotional stakes.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a gripping narrative with intense conflict between the agent's personal loss and the global threat, allowing for strong character development and high stakes.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 22, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept wins for its highly original and emotionally charged sci-fi premise involving parallel realities and personal erasure, which combines strong hook, broad appeal, and narrative depth better than the others.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 8/10
Story Potential 9/10
  • Hook Strength: The idea of a tear between parallel realities causing the protagonist to risk fading from existence is uniquely compelling and memorable, blending high-concept sci-fi with profound personal stakes.
  • Audience Appeal: It is highly marketable with its timely multiverse theme and emotional core of grief and love, attracting a wide audience including sci-fi enthusiasts and those drawn to character-driven thrillers.
  • Story Potential: The concept promises a gripping narrative with intense conflict, high stakes of personal erasure and a race to save a loved one, offering opportunities for deep character development and suspenseful twists.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 21, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept won due to its highly memorable and unique hook involving mistaken identity and a personal family twist, strong audience appeal in the action-comedy genre, and excellent story potential with layered conflicts and high stakes.
Hook Strength 9/10
Audience Appeal 9/10
Story Potential 9/10
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DAILY WINNER
Oct 20, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept wins for its relatable and compelling exploration of moral dilemmas in a high-pressure sales world, offering strong character-driven conflict and broad audience appeal through everyday stakes.
Hook Strength 7/10
Audience Appeal 7/10
Story Potential 8/10
🥈 WEEKLY WINNER
Oct 19, 2025
TIME TRACKER

"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."

🏆 Judge's Verdict

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.

🏅 Runner-Up Notes

"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.

Fantasy 30% Action 25% Thriller 35% Drama 40% Romance 15% Comedy 15%
From the Author:

Coming to grips with a loved one's death is a powerful theme. Yet it can be placed into a comedy, adventure or thriller, all of which I've written. I created these screenplays motivated subconsciously by the death of my younger son, David (See THE SEARCH: A Mystical Journey on Amazon).

TIME TRACKER
DAILY WINNER
Oct 19, 2025
TIME TRACKER

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept's innovative blend of espionage, time-travel, and Arthurian mythology creates a highly original hook that merges high-stakes action with personal redemption, making it commercially viable for a broad audience through spectacular visuals and emotional depth that could drive box office success.
Fantasy 30% Action 25% Thriller 35% Drama 40% Romance 15% Comedy 15%
From the Author:

I've always been fascinated by time travel, especially since I believe all time is NOW. I'd love to go back in time to find out if Shakespeare really wrote the plays with his name on them. And like my hero Adam, to discover things hidden in my own past. The pieces of this screenplay are unique, and I believe the story could be a tentpole for a franchise.

TIME TRACKER
DAILY WINNER
Oct 18, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept innovatively merges the classic underdog sports comeback with contemporary AI themes, offering a fresh hook that combines high-stakes action and emotional family drama, making it highly marketable to a wide audience including sports enthusiasts and tech-savvy viewers who would be drawn to its thrilling trailer potential and relatable character arcs.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 17, 2025
friends in High Placesw

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept masterfully blends everyday life struggles with a fantastical guardian angel element, offering a fresh and humorous take on personal reinvention that has broad commercial appeal to audiences seeking uplifting, relatable stories with laugh-out-loud moments and emotional depth.
By: Rosemary
Drama 40% Fantasy 20% Comedy 30% Romance 25%
From the Author:

Friends in High Places is inspired by my personal experience.

friends in High Placesw
DAILY WINNER
Oct 16, 2025
Deoxy

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept stands out with its original blend of sci-fi thriller elements and environmental themes, offering a fresh take on human evolution that immediately hooks audiences with high-stakes protection and moral dilemmas. It has strong commercial viability, appealing to a wide demographic through exciting action sequences and profound character arcs that could foster deep emotional connections and box office success.
Script: Deoxy
By: John John
Action 30% Crime 15% Drama 40% Fantasy 20% Science Fiction 25% Thriller 25% War 10%
From the Author:

My goal is simple: to craft bold, emotionally charged stories that feel one headline away from reality.

Deoxy
DAILY WINNER
Oct 16, 2025
Perfect Moments

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept brilliantly combines a supernatural 'rewind' ability with themes of anxiety and human connection, offering a fresh psychological twist that can captivate audiences through its emotional depth and relatable character journey, making it highly marketable for both indie and mainstream appeal with strong potential for viral buzz and repeat viewings.
Script: Perfect Moments
Drama 60% Fantasy 30% Romance 40% Comedy 20%
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From the Author:

I'm always interested in finding new ways to explore universal themes and situations.

Perfect Moments
DAILY WINNER
Oct 15, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept stands out for its fresh exploration of a celebrity's double life, blending high-stakes Hollywood drama with themes of personal empowerment and raw authenticity, creating an immediate hook that captivates audiences. Its marketability is enhanced by the universal appeal of scandal and self-discovery, evoking excitement for visually dynamic scenes and emotional resonance that could draw wide demographics to theaters.
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DAILY WINNER
Oct 14, 2025
Prophet of Doom

"An investigative podcaster uncovers a tech company’s plan to retroactively rewrite history and must race a moral technocrat to make the disappeared visible again — by any means necessary."

Why This Won:
This concept delivers a highly original sci-fi thriller by exploring a tech company's ability to rewrite history, creating an immediate hook with its high-stakes race to restore truth, which is commercially viable due to its timely relevance to real-world fears about technology and misinformation, appealing to a broad audience of thriller enthusiasts and social issue fans.
Thriller 45% Drama 35% Action 25% Science Fiction 30%
From the Author:

I wrote Prophet of Doom because I believe the greatest threat to humanity isn’t war or disease—it’s the quiet erasure of truth. Today, reality is filtered through algorithms, power is disguised as protection, and history can be rewritten in real time. This story is a warning and a challenge. If memory can be controlled, freedom dies. Mara Dyson’s fight is our fight: to make the disappeared visible again—no matter the cost. — Joseph Murkijanian

Prophet of Doom
DAILY WINNER
Oct 13, 2025

"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."

Why This Won:
This concept delivers a highly original fusion of sci-fi and action genres through a unique protagonist with an alien artifact, offering an immediate hook that combines personal stakes with world-altering consequences, making it highly marketable to a broad audience seeking thrilling, imaginative blockbusters.
🥈 WEEKLY WINNER
Oct 12, 2025

"When a self-replicating alien mechanism awakens in the solar system, a disgraced lunar geologist and a tenacious intelligence agent join an international mission to stop it before Earth's cities are 'hexaformed'—but the greatest threat may come from humanity’s own desire to control the technology."

Why This Won:
This concept delivers a highly original sci-fi premise with a self-replicating alien mechanism threatening Earth, combined with human intrigue over technology control, which hooks audiences with its timely relevance and high-stakes global conflict, making it commercially viable for blockbuster appeal with broad demographic reach and potential for spectacular visual effects.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 12, 2025

"When a girl born in a war zone is struck by lightning and named by an ancient prophecy, she is resurrected as Kamila—an awakened warrior tied to an ancestral queens' council—and must master both science and sorcery to stop Dominyaha, a millennia-old queen bent on flooding the world and remaking humanity."

Why This Won:
This concept innovatively merges science and sorcery in a prophetic warrior narrative, offering a compelling hook with high-stakes global threats that captivate audiences; its blend of personal growth and epic adventure sparks vivid imagination for dynamic characters and visually stunning scenes, ensuring strong marketability across fantasy and action genres.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 11, 2025

"When a self-replicating alien mechanism awakens in the solar system, a disgraced lunar geologist and a tenacious intelligence agent join an international mission to stop it before Earth's cities are 'hexaformed'—but the greatest threat may come from humanity’s own desire to control the technology."

Why This Won:
This concept combines a fresh sci-fi twist on alien invasions with the innovative 'hexaforming' threat and human greed, offering high originality and a gripping hook that explores technology's dangers; it's highly marketable to broad audiences through epic visuals and moral dilemmas, with strong potential for imaginative world-building, character conflicts, and memorable set pieces that could drive box office success.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 10, 2025

"After a fatal accident tears a family apart, a restless younger son demands his inheritance and leaves home—forcing him to reckon with grief, rivalry, and the price of freedom as the prodigal story unfolds in a dusty biblical landscape."

Why This Won:
This concept revitalizes the classic prodigal son story with added elements of grief and rivalry from a family tragedy, offering a fresh emotional hook that appeals to broad audiences through universal themes of redemption and personal growth in a vividly imagined biblical world.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 9, 2025

"When a sneaker-obsessed teen and the rival accused of attacking him are forced to partner on a school-sponsored shoe art project, they must navigate pride, peer pressure and a rising gang threat — until an unforeseen act of violence forces both to confront what they truly value."

Why This Won:
This concept offers a fresh take on coming-of-age stories by integrating contemporary youth culture like sneaker obsession with intense social conflicts, creating an immediate hook that explores themes of rivalry and redemption. It has strong marketability to a wide teen and young adult audience through its relatable characters and high-stakes action, evoking excitement in trailers and sparking imagination for emotional depth and thrilling scenes.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 8, 2025

"After years of living with the unexplained disappearance of her childhood best friend, a haunted woman uses surveillance, polaroids, and a battered camera to unmask a malign presence that feeds on images—forcing her to risk everything to drag the thing out of the shadows."

Why This Won:
This concept offers a fresh and gripping take on horror by centering a supernatural entity that feeds on images, providing immediate commercial appeal through its psychological tension and mystery that could draw wide audiences, while sparking vivid imagination for intense investigative scenes and character-driven suspense.
DAILY WINNER
Oct 7, 2025

"An alcoholic-hopeful actor turned car salesman drives cross-country to crash a Hollywood casting and instead winds up on a star-studded salvage mission to the Titanic; when supernatural guardians and greed threaten the voyage, he must choose between timid survival and the courage to save lives — and finally earn the role of his life."

Why This Won:
This concept combines a compelling redemption arc with high-adventure elements and supernatural threats, creating a fresh blend of historical intrigue and fantasy that appeals to a wide audience through its emotional stakes and potential for spectacular visuals.
Script: Titanic Treasure
By: Vern Urich
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From the Author:

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