Projects
 Television
Momo – The Sam Giancana story - Pitch – have story rights from the family In the fifties and early sixties, Chicago mob Boss Sam Giancana, murderer and kingmaker, becomes seduced by the promise of his own growing power. This seduction leads to devastating effects on national and world history. The true story of Sam Giancana as authorized by members of the Giancana family. Giancana was the powerful Chicago crime lord whose influence extended far beyond the City Limits of Chicago, even beyond the borders of the United States. The period is the fifties and sixties. The home base of the series is The Amory Lounge, an outwardly prosaic bar owned by Giancana, where only close associates were welcome. It was at the Amory Lounge where Giancana let his hair down, gave his deadly orders, and made plans that would have far ranging results. But the action of the series extends to the glittering worlds of Las Vegas and Hollywood, the casinos and revolutionaries of Cuba, and the power corridors of Washington D.C.

Mercury 2050 – Pitch for hour long show Mike Steel, an L.A. homicide cop in the year 2050, while investigating the murder of a genius computer program designer, discovers that a virtual reality amusement park called MERCURY, which has become the most popular form of entertainment, is actually a front for a group of anonymous conspirators who use MERCURY to plot political assassinations, mass murder, and global manipulation. Steel’s attempts to shut MERCURY down bring such pressure to bear on the L.A.P.D. that he is punished by his superiors. They transfer Mike from his beloved homicide beat and assign him and a team of police rejects to the MERCURY RUN, which is a glorified park patrol. Mike and his crew have to monitor the goings on in this virtual reality website. Meanwhile, Mike is marked for death by the secret conspirators who control MERCURY.

“Virtual Conspiracy” – Script – pitch tape – Sold WB A Virtual Reality game designer “Jake” creates a real life game and trips into a Virtual World ala Matrix for the rich and powerful, thought to be a rumor. He discovers a chat room filled with conspirators, and his life is changed forever.

“Federal Affairs” – Pitch for hour long show Two maverick agents (one CIA, one FBI) team up to form a two-fisted task force targeting corruption at the highest level of law enforcement: a federal internal affairs unit. Because they get results, they are constantly in hot water with law enforcement officers all over the world.

“High Speed Chase” – Pitch – Sold UPN In a modern city troubled by unsuccessful police car chases, two NASCAR drivers are enlisted by the police and given turbo-driven Cobras to even the odds. HIGH SPEED CHASE is a fast, fast, fast, paced pursuit series, as breathtaking as the Indie 500, as deadly as metal crushing metal, and as full of character-driven humor and romance as a Lethal Weapon movie. Two fast ex-pro drivers work with the police but follow their own codes and rules in an endless pursuit of speeding offenders.

“The Count of Monte Cristo” – Pitch – hour long Edmond Dantes, the great swashbuckling hero from the pen of Alexander Dumas (Three Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask) mystifies nineteenth century Paris in the false guise of the Count of Monte Cristo. Backed by a mysterious source of unlimited wealth, the loyalty of downtrodden souls whose lives and fortunes he continues to save, a mastery of the secrets of the orient, and a curious inventive creativity that prefigures H.G. Welles by a century, Dantes seeks revenge on the three powerful men who robbed him of his own name.

“Lisa Diamond” - Pitch – hour long A beautiful, sophisticated insurance investigator posing as a wholesaler of fine wines tracks down international art thieves, murderers, stolen objects and stolen people, and all manner of false claims.

“Steele” - Pitch – hour long Twenty-three, beautiful, an Olympic champion with her trophies taken away, she had an unusual childhood. Her father was a cat burglar and she was his seven-year-old accomplice. A powerful international law enforcement agency (think INTERPOL) approaches Caroline with an offer she can’t refuse. They know where her father’s hiding. They have video monitors trained on him twenty-four hours a day. If they want to they can turn him in to any number of countries where more prison time awaits. But they won’t, in fact they’ll protect his anonymity, if Caroline will agree to do their bidding. What do they want her to do? They want her to steal. As a secret operative, Caroline is to break and enter where no one else can get in. They want her to retrieve stolen documents, free hostages and kidnapping victims, reclaim errant national treasures, and basically stop international crises from ever taking place, risking her life every inch of the way, all in the name of world peace and criminal justice.

K.C. Conners – Pitch, Award Winning Play K.C. Conners (aka Casey), a knockout twenty-six year old parole officer tries to keep her parolees in line while fighting a one-woman war against both parole office corruption and getting involved with the wrong guy. Her nemisis, a decorated senior parole officer named Cody, runs a convict blackmail operation and wants her dead. In west Dallas, right there amidst all the gunshops and pawnbrokers of Maple Avenue, you’ll find the state parole office. If you’re a recent ex-con, you’d better find it or you’re going back to Huntsville. If your parole officer is K.C. Conners, you might get the kind of help you need to stay out of trouble and jail. But if you draw Cody Hicks, you might beg for jail. Two P.O.’s with clashing styles. One is a woman you’d love to date, the other a man you’d love to hate. K.C.P.O. is a pulp series, each episode a complete noir thriller with a beautiful young woman, an evil, conniving compromised man (and these are the good guys), and a steady stream of offenders let out on the streets. Secrets, betrayed love, sardonic one-liners, and the old Texas double-cross serve as weapons in a deadly shell-game, pitting the fastest wits in the Texas State Criminal Justice system against each other. Human souls are at stake.

“US Marshall Chronicles” – with Jeff Fahey Docu-Drama, Pitch, pitch tape The secret records and surveillance tapes of the U.S.Marshal Service open up to tell the inside stories of the toughest manhunts on record, with an emphasis on secrets that have never been told until now. The US Marshals were created in 1789 by the first congress and appointed by George Washington because the constitution alone wasn't enough. Someone had to protect the rights it guaranteed. Since then hundreds of U.S. Marshals have died doing just that.

“Senate Bill Number One”- Wheel of Movie Pitch, pitch tape A wheel of feature-length movies. Each movie is a stand-alone thrill ride taken directly from the records and surveillance tapes of the U.S. Marshals. Every film focuses on one of the amazing case histories drawn from over two centuries worth of the toughest manhunts in history. The stories are all true, and yet you won't believe the lengths that the Marshals go to in order to keep the peace and bring down the bad guys. Packed with action and non-stop tension, the Senate Bill Number One movies take you all over the world on the non-stop search for gangsters, drug dealers, con men, and all manner of fugitives from justice.

Features
“Shadow and Light” – Pitch – rights from Nick Non Sternberg JOSEF VON STERNBERG, the fabled Hollywood film director, one of the original riding crop boys, almost lost his mind directing his masterpiece “The Blue Angel” in Berlin in 1929. Director of “Underworld”, “The Last Command”, “Morocco”, “Shanghai Express” and “Blonde Venus”, Von Sternberg faced personal and professional crises in the late twenties. The son of an artist and an artist himself, Joe made a career out of putting the captivating images in his head on the film screen. But now the advent of talking pictures may put an end to his image-driven career. Now they’re bringing out stage directors and actors from the New York theatre.

Movies are about actors talking. His freewheeling camera is now bolted into an unmovable soundproof box, from which the director/cameraman emerges sweating and panting for air every few minutes. And his mind seems no longer his own. Everywhere he looks he sees paintings yet to be born. Beautiful paintings of places he has never been, people he has never known. Hallucinations, mind-wanderings, daydreams, whatever they are, they haunt him, they pursue him down every alley. His marriage is being threatened by recurring images of a woman, blonde, lithe, beautiful cheekbones and limpid eyes… Who is she? Does she exist?

Joe’s “Last Patrol” star Emil Jannings has returned to his native Germany. Jannings now chooses his old nemesis Joe von Sternberg to direct his new talking film at the great UFA studio in Berlin.


“Chicago” – Screenplay – Usual Suspects like When JOEY AUGUSTINO (50's), the leader of Chicago's toughest organized crime outfit, decides to go legit and run for President, his six top assassins fear the decision and shoot him in cold blood. Unbeknownst to them, their actions are observed by boxer and friend TONY, who rats them out at the yearly Teamsters' meeting, consequently throwing the city into chaos.

“Sea of Ice” – Screenplay – optioned by Keanu Reeves – have all rights back – action Hot-headed ex-Olympic silver medalist HARRY COCHRAN, 32, his loving German girlfriend PETRA PEETSCH, 25, and their new American buddy GREG ALLPORT, 29, rocket down a mountainside, flashing through a burst of powder toward a train chugging up a steep incline through the French Alps. They are serious skiers, but flat broke, so they hitch a free ride, and inadvertently stumble into a ferocious shoot-out over a box of untraceable diamonds. Avoiding bullets, they grab the "ice," jump the train and ski toward Chamonix. D'ALESSANDRO, a well-dressed 35-year-old mobster, wants his diamonds back and he won't quit--his life is on the line. Meanwhile, the three skiers disagree about what to do. Harry votes to keep the diamonds, but Greg's got ethical misgivings and real concerns about the dangers they're facing. He thinks they should go to the police. Petra is the undecided X-factor, caught between them.

“The Fields of Juniper Springs” – Award winning Screenplay – Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave The Harvest is a gripping and poignant story of an Italian immigrant traveling through the rural south, who comes upon a battered farm wife and her family just as she kills her husband in self-defense. The immigrant comes to her assistance, tending her wounds, caring for her children and staying on at the farm to bring in the harvest. His presence has a healing effect and they fall in love... Their happiness is short lived when he chooses to take the fall and face the consequences of her actions on that fateful night.

“SuperChamps” – Feature length Documentary I made “Champions Forever” with Mohammed Ali, highest selling documentary of all time. For almost two decades these legends of boxing ruled the ring and forced the middleweight division to dominate the sport, as they passed the world middleweight and welterweight titles from one to another with over two hundred million fans watching. Now, for the first time ever on screen, you’ll see them come together in an unprecedented documentary event. In Super Champs, you’ll discover the real men behind the myths, and you’ll uncover the anguish and secret passions that drove them to fight and win. You’ll hear them talk about themselves-and each other-intimately, with surprising candor. You’ll relive the most thrilling moments from dozens of their greatest bouts, including; The War, The War II, No Mas, The Rubber Match, The Fight of the Decade and The Miracle Match! You’ll hear, in their own words, how these greats felt when they faced each other to do battle...the anticipation, excitement and anxiety. You’ll listen in as they discuss their public and private fights, their highs and lows both in and out of the ring; and even how they would like to be remembered by the world. Accompanied by a magnificent original soundtrack and packed with powerful, exclusive fight footage. An exciting, inspiring, emotional odyssey through the awesome careers of four bigger than life heroes who, for millions of us, will always be Super Champs!

“The Three Musketeers” - Screenplay – optioned by John Peters company – I got the rights back, You know the story!

“Gunrunner” – Screenplay – action JACKSON PORTER, a mercenary hustler, is a gunrunner in Southeast Asia. He connects with Burmese rebels in a small fishing village in Thailand. MODERN-DAY PIRATES led by a ruthless cutthroat, SHAN, attack the village. Shan robs the bank and kidnaps village women. He busts up Porter's trade-off, stealing Porter's cash and weapons. He takes off in a flotilla of powerboats and jet-skis, dragging Porter along with the other captives. On the high seas, Shan and his men encounter a shipload of Vietnamese boat people. VO TRAN THUY is a former North Vietnamese officer, disenchanted now with the Communist government of his homeland in a world where communism has failed. He and his comrades resist the pirates. Porter arrives in the speedboat. At the finish of a ferocious firefight, Shan shoots Porter in the head. The last thing Porter sees is Shan's bullet flying at him in superheated slow-motion, before he plunges backward off the boat, into a cold embrace of seawater... Porter comes to, hours later, alone with Vo, afloat on a makeshift raft. Vo has saved his life. Porter finds himself bound to the kind of man he fought against in the war, and now they're both fighting together, on the same side, to rescue their two families from the pirates. Porter calls Vo "the viper," rehashing old animosities. They don't get along at all, but he can't get rid of the little Vietnamese, who believes Porter represents his only chance to get his family back--his father, mother, and son. They make their way to Hong Kong.

“Prairie Madness” – Screenplay – Western Comedy Back in the days of the frontier railroad, a frantic but deadly Pinkerton named Bill leads a hired posse to the hideout of train robber, murderer, and outlaw gang leader Ned Jingo. As they prepare to ambush the outlaw king, Jingo kills each posse member one by one, leaving Bill to ride through a solid ring of fire in order to survive. Ravaged and enraged by the flames, Bill seeks out his old tracker, Mace. Mace is a rugged half-Navaho who lives off the land and dwells in a cave. Jingo wiped out Mace's Navaho tribe, and Mace has long believed Jingo to be dead. Upon learning that Jingo still lives, Mace throws in with Bill. Trouble begins immediately when Bill introduces Mace to the rest of the posse he has desperately raised: Slim and Boniface, two fast-shooters with heavy hangovers, and Shy, a beautiful young Annie Oakley-esque circus shooter. Shy engages the inebriated hot shots in a shooting match to impress Mace. Mace becomes angry at the amateurishness that has given away their position to the Jingo gang. To make matters worse, Bill confides to Mace that he is in love with Shy and tries to enlist Mace's help in winning her.

“White Dragon” – Pitch - action An ancient platinum dragon is delivered by Japanese secret service to the President as a gift from the Prime Minister of Japan. Our Hero, Rawlins, busted down to delivery boy, by his superior receives the Dragon and while delivering it the Dragon gets stolen. Rawlins and the Japanese Secret service” all Yakuza” reluctantly get together to try and recover the Dragon in time for a Presidential ceremony…almost destroying Washington DC in the process.

“Titan” – Screenplay – Sci Fi Lt. Cmdr. DELANEY KELT is a space fighter pilot in a future civil war. When a remote colony is destroyed, she must fight against a rebel space carrier where her husband, Lt. Cmdr DOUGLAS OSBORNE, is stationed. But it turns out the colony was attacked by powerful aliens, and the humans must cooperate to stop them from launching an attack on Earth.

“Wings of the Dragon” – Treatment – Pitch ala “Kill Bill” JACKSON LEE, a modern day warrior, a descendant of the bloodline from the original five Shao Lin warriors, is caught between a past he can’t change, and a destiny he can’t avoid. Over one thousand years ago Chinese Emperor “XUANZOG” from the “TANG DYNASTY” decreed that at every full moon, the best warriors, representing their respective families should meet in a fight to the death, in “the circle of Honor.” To the victor, the prize, two swords “The Wings of the Dragon.” The greatest swordsman and craftsman in Shang Hai made the mystical fighting swords for Tao Lee, an original Shao Lin warrior, from whom Jackson has descended, as a birth present. During the final heating and finishing of the fighting swords, the blades turned dark blue in color. According to Chinese tradition it was a sign of a messenger or savior arriving. Wielding his fighting swords with skillfully executed moves, Jackson has been winning these matches and his life, ever since his turn to defend his family honor came up over fifteen years ago. Jackson leaves his opponent slashed and bleeding as he falls to the ground dead. Gamblers around the world have been betting on these death matches for over two thousand years. DANNY BROWN, a slick, highs takes promoter hands Jackson his fifty thousand dollar payoff, as Jackson mounts his motorcycle and rockets down the street and out of town in a cloud of smoke. Danny Brown has a plan to make millions betting on “the circle of Honor” matches. His “ ace in the hole” is HAMMER, “a circle of honor” opponent whose turn it is to fight Jackson. For one hundred thousand dollars and the “The Wings of the Dragon,” Brown pits Jackson against Hammer.