I’ve written more scripts than I care to count. Some on spec, some as a hired gun. While I can’t post samples of the for-hire scripts here for legal reasons, I can the include the first 10 to 15 pages of a few of my favorite originals…
THE UPGRADE
A mismatched pair of night-shift security guards–a quiet retiree and a loudmouth young punk–become pawns in their boss’s plot to rob his own jewelry store for the insurance money. **This screenplay was purchased by Miramax Films. See the “Press” section of the site for more details.
Read THE UPGRADE – First 15 Pages
THE SECOND SAMSON
When wealthy Wall Street playboy Samson Wells meets a man who looks exactly like him, his charmed life begins to unravel in increasingly mysterious ways. A dark comic thriller in The Twilight Zone mode. **This screenplay was previously optioned by Andrew Lauren Productions (The Squid and The Whale).
Read THE SECOND SAMSON – First 15 Pages
BULL HEAD & BLIND RAGE
Two battle-scarred Civil War veterans–a one-eyed Confederate gunman and a Yankee hangman with a bovine cranial plate–descend on the diseased Texas mining town of Saltlick to settle old scores and search for a storied, stolen gold cache with the help of a resourceful saloon girl and a stoic Comanche brave. An epic spaghetti/acid western in the Sergio Leone tradition.
Read BULL HEAD & BLIND RAGE – First 10 Pages
LEGENDARY BEASTS OF THE BORDER
A diverse group of border patrol agents and their undocumented detainees must band together to battle a ruthless cartel boss and a mysterious Mexican beast that descend on a remote Texas border patrol station in the same night. A topical action-horror film in the vein of John Carpenter’s The Thing and James Cameron’s Aliens.
Read LEGENDARY BEASTS OF THE BORDER – First 15 pages
MERC
A private military contractor wounded on assignment in the Middle East returns home to take revenge on the defense corporation CEO responsible for a friend’s death during the same assignment. A conspiracy-driven action/thriller.
WIDOW’S CREEK WEEKEND
On the eve of his 40th birthday, PVC pipe factory worker Dusty Runyon gets a visit from Thorne DeWitt, a childhood friend who reminds him of the sacred “blood oath” they made as teenagers. It’s a pact that will come due on a fateful weekend hunting trip to the mountains near Widow’s Creek. A dark comedy set in the blue-collar South.
MATT BURCH 