2023
Welcome to The Grey List
We’re honored to present you with a curated list of original, production-ready feature and pilot scripts from writers over the age of 40. We hope you enjoy the amazing range of stories represented here. And remember…
Creativity has no expiration date!
American Monster
a feature by Robert Hagans
Logline: After a combat veteran’s PTSD turns a friend’s drug intervention into a deadly shoot-out, the media’s rush to call her a hero sends her on a violent downward spiral.
Comps: RAMBO meets CITIZEN RUTH
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Back Barn Bookie
a feature by Guy Crawford
Logline: When a poor kid with a knack for playing the odds becomes a pawn in a gangster’s plan, he’s forced to risk his racetrack dreams with a longshot bet to save his family or else watch his whole world go up in flames.
Comps: LUCK meets SECRETARIAT
Representation: Actively seeking representation
The Beast of Bedburg
a feature by Jennifer Grand
Logline: In the fall of 1589, a zealous Catholic Bishop is summoned to a small German village where fourteen children have been brutally murdered to root out evil and restore peace to the frantic villagers.
Comps: THE WITCH, THE CRUCIBLE, and WICKER MAN
Representation: Actively seeking representation
The Boca Shuffle
a feature by Tod Klinger
Logline: A restless man trapped in assisted living convinces his millennial van driver to take him and his motley crew on a cross-country road trip to reunite with “the one who got away.”
Comps: COCOON meets LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Bunyan
a feature by Eric Rogers
Logline: A modern take on an American legend, Paul Bunyan is forced to come to terms with his abandoned legacy as protector of the forest when an old foe threatens the land and the Bunyan clan with annihilation. Paul gets an assist in his quest from his daughter, Paulie, who discoveres she is next in line to “weild the axe,” which can turn her into a kick-ass, larger-than-life hero…just like her old man.
Comps: BRAVE and THE SWORD IN THE STONE meet THE INCREDIBLES, with a dash of SHE-RA thrown in for good measure.
Representation: Noah Jones, FWD MGNT
The Chasm and the Caveat
a pilot by Mo Moshaty
Logline: Against the backdrop of Summer in rural Upstate NY, a woman takes in her niece after her sister’s horrific and confusing death. Traumatized by her mother’s passing, the girl begs her aunt to regale her with a frightening tale every night so as to never be scared again, oblivious to the very real terror that lies on the farm.
Comps: SIGNS meets CREEPSHOW
Representation: Toni Long, Long Law Group
Clean
a feature by Luke Thomas
Logline: After being forced to clean up a grisly murder, a motel maid is presented with a way to secure her disabled brother’s future when she takes out her captor and steals $300k from him. The problem is, she’s not the only one in town who needs that money.
Comps: CRANK meets FARGO
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Cola Kingdom
a pilot by Sean Azze
Logline: When the eccentric founder of an iconic soda brand dies, seemingly taking the secret recipe with him, family, competitors, and an unorthodox new CEO go to great lengths to recover the missing formula.
Comps: SUCCESSION meets SEVERANCE
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Dark Heart Down
a feature by Gale Hansen
Logline: When Miami K&R operative Darling Rex’s ex-husband is abducted in Mexico City, she’s forced to return to the underworld of hostage negotiation and extraction in the city’s most violent barrio while reconciling the wreckage of their life together.
Comps: MAN ON FIRE meets TAKEN
Representation: Jasper Grey, Vendetta Group
Enemy
a feature by Clint Williams
Logline: After one of their own murders a Comanche boy, a group of Spanish cavalrymen find themselves deep in hostile territory without horses and needing to trek across the vast prairie while fending off vengeful warriors, nature, and each other.
Comps: DANCES WITH WOLVES meets OPEN WATER
Representation: Eric C. Jones, Tobias Literary Management
The Family Jewels
a feature by Elizabeth Ditty
Logline: In the days before their mother’s funeral, a newly-jilted former trust fund kid leaves her siblings in the lurch when she embarks on an emergency road trip to discover the truth about her parents’ marriage, her mother’s massive jewelry collection, and herself.
Comps: THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU meets SABRINA
Representation: Seth Nagel, 5X Media
Five with a Bullet
a feature by Christopher Isenegger
Logline: In order to outwit a serial rock-star-killer, a humble, young, 80's RnB singer must team up with her hilariously immoral peers—including a closeted piano/funk virtuoso, a disco/soul legend, and her aging pop diva chart rival—to uncover a conspiracy and whodunit.
Comps: GLASS ONION and READY OR NOT meets THIS IS SPINAL TAP
Representation: Jason Bellitto, Citizen Skull Management
For Her Pleasure
a feature by Katie White
Logline: Inspired by a true story, an intrepid but naive stripper, with centerfold dreams and a habit of making catastrophic life choices, gets seduced by the promise of life-changing wealth by selling sex toys.
Comps: SHAMELESS meets MINX
Agent: Jack Heinrich, KMR
Manager: Brendan Bragg, Haven
Frauds
a pilot by Laura Skopec
Logline: When their conman dad resurfaces unexpectedly with Stage 4 cancer, two squabbling sisters are forced back into “the con life” in Florida’s thriving elder fraud underworld to save his life.
Comps: GOOD GIRLS meets NURSE JACKIE
Representation: Actively seeking representation
The Good People of Libby
a feature by Ariadne Shaffer
Logline: Cora and Gayla are both good women who love their town, but as their neighbors succumb to a deadly illness caused by the local mine, one’s campaign to expose the truth runs right through the other’s life work.
Comps: THE BIG SHORT meets ERIN BROCKOVICH
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Goodnight
a feature by Daivd Stokes
Logline: After a mysterious virus starts turning the inhabitants of a small frontier town into the living dead, a grieving Civil War veteran and a headstrong female store owner must battle the undead, and their own demons, in order to save the night.
Comps: A blood-soaked roller coaster in the vein of classic westerns such as UNFORGIVEN mixed with the visceral horror of DAWN OF THE DEAD
Representation: Madeleine Cotter, WGM Atlantic
Growing Up Skarsgard
a feature by Jaime Kawamoto
Logline: Captured and captivated by her fiancé Alexander Skarsgard’s clan on their private island, a writer’s attempt to dazzle Stellan with her latest script is derailed by an unexpected pregnancy and the family’s black magic spell to entrap her.
Comps: THE WICKER MAN meets READY OR NOT
Representation: Nicholas Bogner, Affirmative Entertainment
Green Lake
a pilot by Jan Libby
Logline: In the isolated frontier of Northern Maine, a restless woman searches for the truth about her father’s suspicious death and soon finds herself at war with the ruthless and dangerous underbelly of her close-knit hometown.
Comps: MARE OF EASTTOWN meets MICHAEL CLAYTON
Representation: Krista Sipp & Devon Byers, Heroes & Villains
Heavy
a pilot by Collette Legault
Logline: Set in the 1970s in a working-class Connecticut neighborhood, HEAVY is based on the true story of a 500-pound black man who becomes the defacto father of two white boys—guiding them through the throes of racism, addiction, and poverty after their mother winds up in the hospital.
Comps: SHAMELESS meets THE WONDER YEARS
Representation: Actively seeking representation
House of the Rising Sun
a pilot by Nicola Pittam
Logline: An influential New Orleans Madam secretly joins forces with the Queen of Voodoo, Marie Laveau, to use their sex, power, and magic to make sure the South loses the Civil War and slavery is abolished.
Comps: HARLOTS meets THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Representation: Alex Robb, Insignia Entertainment
Keanu Reeves is My Muse My Son is a Dragon
a feature by Phoenix Black
Logline: When a single, chaotic writer fosters a boy who thinks he’s a dragon, she must embrace his imaginary world and share her own to heal them both and form a family.
Comps: BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA meets HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
Representation: Actively seeking representation
A Keepsakes Christmas
a feature by Rich Orstad
Logline: When a social worker discovers that an elderly woman’s Christmas keepsakes have the power to magically transport them both back in time to the memory each holiday memento represents, she takes on the fight to save the senior’s home and her lifetime of precious holiday memories.
Comps: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE meets FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Killing Floor
a feature by Vishal Reddy
Logline: When workers at a meat-packing plant go on strike, they must decide whether to save their foreign replacements from a bloodthirsty mob.
Comps: NORMA RAE meets ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
Representation: Actively seeking representation
The Last Siren
a feature by Peter R. Feuchtwanger
Logline: After a young widowed fisherman discovers a spirited siren wounded and tangled in his net off the coast of Wales, he chooses to stand with her against the predatory men who mean to profit from the ancient knowledge she holds.
Comps: THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH meets THE SHAPE OF WATER
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Like You Stole It
a pilot by Stacey Russell
Logline: After a brutally oppressive regime seizes control of near-future America, a mysterious mercenary smuggles an abortion-seeking aristocrat away from the sadistic leader who bridges—and haunts—both their pasts.
Comps: A (slightly tongue-in-cheek) FIREFLY meets THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Lincoln File
a pilot by Josh Price
Logline: As the United States collapses under genocide, an orphaned 16-year-old girl is transported to the 19th century on a desperate mission to save the future.
Comps: DARK meets OUTLANDER
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Little Red
a feature by Richard Moon
Logline: A young girl in war-torn 17th century Germany heads out over the hills and through the woods on a mission to save her family, only to face off against a hungry wolf, a dangerous hunter, and family secrets she never suspected.
Comps: OKJA, PREY, and THE EDGE
Representation: Actively seeking representation
The Looter?
a feature by Lisa Scott
Logline: Left to perish in his home during a raging wildfire, an old man’s survival depends solely on the efforts of a looter out to pillage his estate. But what seems to be a chance meeting is really a sinister plan for money and murder.
Comps: BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD meets THE SAVAGES
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Maestro
a pilot by R.B. Ripley
Logline: After a spectacular social media meltdown, a talented and charismatic—but self-destructive—orchestra conductor moves back to his blighted, rust-belt hometown where he struggles to find personal and professional redemption by rebuilding the city’s terrible symphony in his own unconventional style.
Comps: OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH meets MOZART IN THE JUNGLE
Representation: Bob Sobhani, Authentic Talent & Literary Management
Mayfield
a feature by Gemma Crofts
Logline: Finding herself alone during a mysterious apocalyptic event, a traumatized woman must draw on all her strength to survive the oncoming threat. When she is called upon to save a stranger, she is forced to evaluate the worth she puts on his life—and her own.
Comps: THE MIST meets IT COMES AT NIGHT
Representation: Lauren Dineley, Writ Large
The Missfits
a pilot by Anna & Mark Casadei
Logline: Disappointed that her father won’t let her use her sleuthing skills to help in his private investigation business, a teen works with a group of friends—each with a different STEM skill—to solve the small-town mysteries in their community.
Comps: Imagine Bill Nye made a teen sitcom by mixing together iCARLY, VERONICA MARS, and a STEM textbook in a lab.
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Missionary Style
a pilot by Janna Taylor & Lily Gwyer-Miller
Logline: Driven to prove her worthiness to God and her hot boyfriend, a newbie Mormon missionary teams up with a seasoned rebel to convert people to a religion no one wants to be part of.
Comps: BOOKSMART meets THE BOOK OF MORMON
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Oriole Park
a feature by Amelia Dellos & Eric Anderson
Logline: 1978. Chicago. A group of delinquent teens unwittingly put themselves in the sights of notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Comps: FREAKS & GEEKS meets ZODIAC
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Outside Forces
a feature by Daniel John Carey
Logline: In 1960, a young woman just out of prison aims to correct a wrong done to her while growing up in a remote farm community ruled by a fundamentalist cult. Things get complicated when she learns that a pregnant friend needs help escaping her deranged husband who controls the town with his tyrannical sister.
Comps: POWER OF THE DOG meets WOMEN TALKING
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Parts
a pilot by Nikki Bailey
Logline: After blowing up her successful life during a bipolar mania, a beleaguered black woman adopts a new form of therapy that causes her depression to come to life as a shape-shifting, havoc-wreaking cartoon character.
Comps: INSECURE meets HAPPY and INSIDE OUT
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Pulse
a feature by Tracee Beebe
Logline: When a massive solar flare shuts down the grid and kills all modern technology, a retired marine must rely on her skills as a military tracker to rescue her kidnapped wife as society crumbles around her.
Comps: TAKEN meets THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
Representation: Jason Lubin, First Story Entertainment
Shackled
a feature by Michael Boaks
Logline: Two feuding brothers in a desert chain-gang must overcome their bitter past to survive when one of the shackled prisoners turns zombie.
Comps: CON AIR meets 28 DAYS LATER
Representation: Actively seeking representation
The Sinners’ Almanac
a feature by Rantz A. Hoseley
Logline: Based on events in the 1980s, THE SINNERS’ ALMANAC is a dark coming-of-age story that unflinchingly explores how razor-thin the line can be between a rural culture of “acceptable” violence and actual murder when an Idaho community is plagued by a string of horrific serial killings.
Comps: WINTER’S BONE meets MY FRIEND DAHMER
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Targets
a feature by Rick Lucas
Logline: After helplessly witnessing the murder of his brother by the police years earlier, an emotionally damaged black professor accompanies two students on a turbulent social justice march, where he is forced to confront the guilt of his past to defend his students’ futures.
Comps: SELMA meets FRUITVALE STATION
Representation: Actively seeking representation
Technocracy
a pilot by Marty Lang
Logline: A skittish social media director uses deepfake technology to help her mother become Governor of Missouri, bringing about tragic results—and an unexpected mission that will utilize her unique high-tech skills.
Comps: MR. ROBOT meets HOUSE OF CARDS
Representation: Mark Meyers, Citizen Skull Management
The Widowmaker
a feature by Denise Meyers
Logline: When the military threatens to ground a fleet of B-26 bombers—nicknamed THE WIDOWMAKER—on the eve of D-Day due to the high fatality rate for their combat crews, a group of female pilots find themselves in a race against time to discover the cause, correct it, and ensure the Allied forces have the air support they need for the invasion of Normandy Beach.
Comps: A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN meets MEMPHIS BELLE
Representation: Actively seeking representation
The Woman from the North
a feature by Shelley Gustavson
Logline: Held hostage by a lonely American veteran suspicious of her story, a former WWII Resistance fighter has one night to escape before an old enemy returns.
Comps: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN meets THE DEBT
Representation: Actively seeking representation