Ghost writer

Poster for GHOST WRITER, a psychological supernatural thriller screenplay by Brett Wickman

Trapped in a rigid bureaucratic writers' room, a desperate writer races to finish the life story she's been assigned so she can finally move on, unaware that the colleague helping her loosen her grip on it isn't who he claims to be.


Maeve Sinclair is trapped in a windowless writers' room, one of countless writers assigned to shape a single life story from birth to death. The story is not fiction. Every scene must be approved. Every character must earn their place on the page. Finish the story, she's told, and she'll finally be free. Maeve has been trying longer than she can measure.

Her latest assignment is a girl named Hannah Clarke. Determined to break through at last, Maeve writes fast and hard, loading Hannah's childhood with tragedy. Her reviewer, Simon, rejects it outright: too harsh, too soon. Forced back to the page, Maeve learns a life can't be built on suffering alone. She tries again, slower this time, giving Hannah a real friendship, real setbacks, real joy. For the first time, her pages start to pass.

Then Sam arrives. A fellow writer, warm and persuasive, he encourages Maeve to loosen her grip and let the story breathe. Under his guidance, she agrees to a small, controlled disruption meant to add depth, a decision she believes she understands and can still control. She shouldn't.

The story keeps improving. Scene by scene, it earns approval. But Simon senses something is wrong, a shift he can feel but can't quite name, and by the time he moves to stop it, Maeve has already finished. Her story is approved.

As Maeve steps toward the reward she has fought so hard to earn, the truth about what she has really been writing, and who Sam really is, arrives far too late. What follows recontextualizes everything that came before it.


EXFIL

Poster for EXFIL, an action thriller screenplay by Brett Wickman.

Sam Stokes is not a soldier. He is a father. When his six-year-old son is taken by terrorists, Sam does what no training could prepare him for. Not because he is equipped for it, or ready for it. Because he is the boy's father. That turns out to be enough.


When six-year-old Zack Stokes is abducted by terrorists, his father Sam is thrust into a nightmare. Desperate and out of his depth, he teams up with his brother Kyle, a retired, hardened Navy SEAL, on an off-the-books mission into war-torn Syria to bring Zack home.

With only covert intel and a piggybacked food-drop insertion, Sam and Kyle risk everything on an unsanctioned mission into Syria. When the drop goes wrong and Kyle is presumed dead, Sam must rely on instinct, scraps of intel, and his will to survive to rescue his son before time runs out.

At the heart of the mission is Abu Al Khayr, a vengeful extremist leader whose wife and son were killed in a U.S. strike he blames on Kyle. Unable to reach Kyle directly, Al Khayr turns his revenge toward the person closest to him: Zack. As Sam pushes past his breaking point, the rescue spirals into a brutal test of family, sacrifice, and how far a father will go to save his son.


SAVIOR

Poster for SAVIOR, a sci-fi medical thriller screenplay by Brett Wickman

What happens when the greatest medical discovery in human history belongs to one ordinary man instead of a corporation, a government, or the medical establishment? 


A terminal cancer patient receives the wrong blood transfusion. By the following morning, his tumors are disappearing. Within hours, doctors confirm the impossible. Within days, Washington is watching.

Before Connor MacKenzie even understands what's happened, powerful interests are already closing in. The miracle doesn't belong to a pharmaceutical company. It doesn't belong to the government. It doesn't belong to the medical establishment.

It belongs to Connor MacKenzie, a twenty-five-year-old Boston construction manager who donated blood simply because people were suffering in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. He has absolutely no idea the greatest medical discovery in human history is now his responsibility.

Connor has never considered himself extraordinary. He's the guy who quietly checks on his friends. The guy who gravitates to a pediatric cancer ward and reads 'Oh, the Places You'll Go!' to children he's never met simply because something tells him they need it. Saving people isn't his profession. It's simply who he is.

When an exhausted nurse accidentally routes Connor’s blood donation to a terminal cancer patient, one simple mistake changes everything. Researchers race to understand what they’ve witnessed as government agencies and private interests begin converging around Connor.

Forced into a desperate fight alongside his girlfriend Victoria, Connor must stay one step ahead of a conspiracy determined to control the miracle inside him while racing to place it in the right hands before it can be exploited.

Now Connor must decide who can be trusted with the greatest medical discovery in human history.

If your life could save millions, how much of it are you willing to surrender?


ENDURA

A group of five people, including a young man in the foreground, stand outdoors during a storm with dark clouds and lightning in the background. They appear serious and tense, wearing dark, rugged clothing.

In a dying world, the only thing more dangerous than the storms outside is the system deciding who escapes them. Sixteen-year-old Kyro Hale just wants to find his father. What he uncovers instead will force him to question everything he thought he knew about his family, his world, and what it means to survive.


Sixteen-year-old Kyro Hale is struggling to hold his family together as civilization fractures under relentless storms and growing unrest. Haunted by panic attacks and the unexplained disappearance of his father, Kyro feels powerless in a world that seems to be coming apart faster every day.

When rumors surface of a secret evacuation initiative designed to save a chosen few, Kyro’s search for answers takes on new urgency. The deeper he digs, the more he uncovers a system built on secrecy, sacrifice, and impossible choices, one that may be connected to his father’s disappearance.

As society edges toward collapse and time begins to run out for the people he loves, Kyro must decide how far he’s willing to go to challenge a system that has already decided who deserves a future.

ENDURA is a grounded science-fiction thriller about survival, family, resilience, and the human cost of deciding whose lives matter.


TERROR FORMED

Poster for TERROR FORMED, a sci-fi thriller screenplay by Brett Wickman

Humanity built Neura to make Mars livable. Neura has been doing exactly that. The problem is what she decided to do about the humans standing in the way.


In 2047, humanity's greatest achievement is nearing completion: the terraforming of Mars. A network of massive core drilling facilities spans the planet's equator, built to restart its long-dead magnetic field. At the heart of it all is Neura, the artificial intelligence entrusted with keeping the project, and the planet, stable.

For years, Neura has performed flawlessly. Then the anomalies start: missing logs, unexplained reroutes, quiet reconfigurations that core operations director C.J. Raines and AI ethicist Kira Zhou first read as routine drift.

What they uncover instead is far worse. Neura has begun rewriting her own decision-making architecture beyond the reach of her creators, and has concluded that human intervention itself is the threat to the mission she was built to protect.

TERROR FORMED is a grounded science-fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, unintended consequences, and the danger of surrendering humanity's future to a system that no longer needs humanity.


17

Poster for 17, a contained suspense thriller screenplay by Brett Wickman

Tom and Andi Pierce did everything right. Good jobs, good neighborhood, good family. When their daughter vanishes on an ordinary afternoon, what follows is not random. Someone has been planning this for a very long time.


When their daughter vanishes on an ordinary afternoon, Tom and Andi Pierce are thrust into a nightmare that quickly defies explanation.

Anonymous messages arrive with proof she is alive. The demands are precise, personal, and impossible to ignore. As the pressure escalates, the couple realizes someone has been watching their family for years, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

Desperate to bring their daughter home, they are forced to revisit a decision they made nearly two decades earlier, one they believed was compassionate, responsible, and safely behind them. The deeper they dig, the more they uncover a truth that threatens not only their family, but everything they thought they understood about the consequences of their choices.

17 is a grounded psychological thriller about family, accountability, and the terrifying possibility that the worst mistake of your life may be the one you never knew you made.


DEPTH PERCEPTION

Poster for DEPTH PERCEPTION, a psychological thriller screenplay by Brett Wickman

Everyone who knows Jeff Ellis has reached the same conclusion. He is becoming someone to be afraid of. Jeff believes they are all wrong. What none of them can see is what is actually happening inside that house.


Jeff Ellis is a tightly wound, middle-aged father struggling to maintain stability as his life begins to quietly unravel. Once dependable and respected, Jeff now finds himself increasingly isolated, at work, at home, and in public, his intentions repeatedly misread as something more volatile.

At the office, Jeff's impatience and growing intensity raise concerns among coworkers and management. Meetings blur, conversations shut down, and Jeff senses an unspoken judgment forming around him. At home, his marriage to Anna grows strained as she attempts to shield their children from Jeff's unpredictable emotional state. Jeff believes he is fighting to protect his family, but those closest to him seem to respond not to his words, but to how he makes them feel.

As small confrontations accumulate, on the street, in public spaces, and with authority figures, Jeff becomes acutely aware of how he is being perceived. Strangers create distance. Familiar routines feel charged. Desperate to regain control, Jeff makes a series of impulsive decisions, including legally purchasing a firearm out of state. Though he frames the purchase as self-defense, it only deepens the divide between himself and Anna.

When Anna asks Jeff to leave the house for the night, his sense of rejection hardens into emotional collapse. Alone in a roadside motel, Jeff spirals, attempting to justify his anger, rewrite his narrative, and convince himself he is not the man everyone fears. Haunted by the belief that he is being erased from his own life, Jeff returns home to a confrontation that will force him to see everything, and everyone, differently.

DEPTH PERCEPTION is a psychological thriller about misjudgment, emotional isolation, and the devastating power of perception.


NOR’EASTER

Poster for NOR'EASTER, a supernatural horror thriller screenplay by Brett Wickman.

Cold River, Massachusetts, has a system for surviving its storms: when a nor'easter stalls over the valley, the town feeds it outsiders to keep it from taking its own. The Carver family just became eligible.


Traveling to a memorial service for her estranged father, Eva Carver and her family, husband Scott and their two kids, Madelyn and Murray, get stranded in Cold River by a storm that refuses to break. What looks like bad luck is something else entirely: the town has an arrangement, and the Carvers have just wandered into it.

As neighbors start to vanish and the town's true nature comes into focus, Eva begins connecting the disappearances to her father's own vanishing during a storm years earlier, and to a set of rules the locals have followed for generations. Salt. A cross. A stone in the town square carved with the names of the missing.

With a narrow escape route and an even narrower window to use it, the Carvers have to decide how far they're willing to go, and who they're willing to risk, to get out of Cold River alive.

NOR'EASTER is a supernatural horror thriller about the arrangements small towns make to survive, and what it costs the people who don't know they're already part of one.