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Copyright © 2008 Insert Logo Productions. All rights reserved. Website last updated 9 / 12 / 08.
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FUTURE PROJECTS The following projects are currently in early stages of pre-production. If you would like to help in any way—through time, talent, or finances—please visit JOIN INSERT LOGO PRODUCTIONS today. |
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All-Night Photography Feature by Peter Kovic
Synopsis: A classically structured film-noir, in which a failed filmmaker is lured into a web of murder and kidnapping by a rich man’s lusty, bored wife. (11/15/07 Draft)
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Days Since She Called Me Short by Peter Kovic with additional dialogue by Nathan Satterlee – 24 pages
Synopsis: Why hasn’t she called me? So asks Eric Mersault as he begins a lonely nightlong odyssey through downtown Houston—driving, drinking, drifting—all the while trying to ignore strange rumors of an alien invasion. A mood piece about being lonely in wide-open public spaces, about melancholy being sweeter and more enduring than the love that caused it. (Short version – Second Draft – 1/13/07)
Notes: This piece will be edited similarly to SLEEPY, but with a simpler palate of blue, grey, nightvision green, and black-and-white.
Hang the DJ Feature by ILP Writing Team
Synopsis: Just when he’s starting to get over her, the ex-wife of a club DJ comes back into the picture – and brings the criminal underworld with her. Based on real life events.
FUTURE PROJECTS - TOO EXPENSIVE The following screenplays are too expensive to be filmed by a small-budget, independent film company. Production companies or studios interested in filming them can contact Insert Logo Productions. All screenplays are registered with and protected by the Writer’s Guild of America-East. (All screenplays are also, incidentally, in need of a little tweaking.)
Fallen Star Feature by Peter Kovic – 96 pages
Synopsis: A parallel dimension that combines our past and our future: magic and machine guns; robots and dinosaurs; dragons and spacecraft; helicopters and horses. In it, undercover Special Agent Vance Venduardo will stop at nothing—personal or professional—to bring in a murderous robot named Vayfens, “functional or deactivated.” But when Vance’s cover is blown, he finds himself on the run, a team member dead, and with no one to trust. In a pit of paranoid despair, he must learn to trust a woman he once betrayed—and only then can he confront the towering metal demon Vayfens. (Second Draft – 10/11/06)
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Away (Companion piece to Fallen Star) Feature by Peter Kovic – 154 pages
Synopsis: The most dangerous substance in the Federation is Onyx Phosphor—pure dark magic in powder form. Two Ministry of Crime agents have different takes on how to find out who’s smuggling it across the border. Jaded veteran Vance Venduardo thinks going undercover is the greatest game, even when he crosses the border, is called a traitor, and becomes indistinguishable from the real crooks. Youthful idealist Molly Morehouse believes in the Federation and the rule of law, yet finds herself spinning out of control when the only way to keep her cover is to use Onyx. Each battles temptation, corruption, and betrayal before coming face-to-face with the evil mastermind behind the dark powder. (First Draft – 11/30/06)
Notes: Future drafts will equally weight Molly's ambition, downward spiral, and the choices she makes with Vance's behind-enemy-lines investigations.
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Pendulum Feature by Peter Kovic – 120 pages
Synopsis: Introverted teenager Lanae gets more than she bargained for with laser eye surgery—she can see into the future! Before long she’s in the middle of a heist, a political conspiracy, a witch’s coven, and a childhood vendetta that’s been blown way out of proportion. A dryly comic fantasy about a girl on the verge of womanhood that can best be thought of as “Brian De Palma and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” (Second Draft – 10/10/06)
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The Suicide Project By Peter Kovic with Lee Andrews – 150 pages
Synopsis: Gloom-and-doom epic about four boys on the verge of adulthood who throw it all away to go on a suburban killing spree. As they kidnap an old girlfriend and outgun scores of cops, it becomes uncertain how much of their story is real and how much they have imagined. A twisting timewarp of anger and disenchantment, at once the violent adolescent fantasies of well-to-do white boys, and an ode to the last days of a suburban childhood and first love. (First Draft – 8/24/06)
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Buffalo Speedway Feature by Peter Kovic with additional dialogue by Lee Andrews – 138 pages
Synopsis: Three stories about one puzzling love triangle, each set in a different reality, each linked by a mysterious author who can’t seem to get his story straight. First she is a wild drop-out—then the boys have magic powers—and finally she is a good girl tempted to remember where they went wrong years before. As each reality circles the same faces and the same locations, altered and twisted each time, we see how many people we have been in one lifetime—and how many more we could have been. (Very Rough Draft (too much dialogue) – 9/11/06)
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Velvet Forest Feature by Peter Kovic – 210 pages
Synopsis: In a parallel universe of swords, smokestacks, flying boats, and visitors from the future, a professional thief named Spring vows revenge after being released from a mysterious prison. Her winding investigation brings her to magicians, a cursed land, a vault in the sky, an abandoned palace, and a dogged monk bent on her capture. A fantasy adventure that combines the “steampunk” universes of Miyazaki with the cat-and-mouse of "Heat" and the derring-do of "Mission: Impossible." (Rough Draft – 8/21/06)
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CARNO-CAR! Feature by Lee Andrews, Jason Chase, and Peter Kovic, based on ideas by Jason Chase and Frank Kim
Synopsis: A malevolent Dodge Diplomat rampages through a town of slack-jawed rednecks in this horror comedy.
Notes: Early drafts are being knocked around between fits of laughter.
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