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Title: Scroll Back

Log line: A skeptic goes back in time for lost scrolls. but instead ends up in a sacred tomb to unravel the secret of the Resurrection.



Pitch: Raiders of the Lost Ark meets The Time Machine.


My name is Jay Stamatis, and I would like to present my Faith Based Action Adventurefeature script entitled “Scroll Back.” 

This story is written along the lines of such movies as “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, “The Da Vinci Code” and “The Time Machine.”

If we could travel back in time, what are we obligated to do? This question assails Peter as he lost his faith years ago, when he left the seminary to study anthropology. Alex, his new anthropology professor,exposes him to the secret of time travel. It all began in 1948, when Alex retrieved a secret scroll from the Dead Sea scrollsthat Thomas the disciple chronicled. Years later this parchment serves as a map guiding Alex and Peter to the pyramids in Mexico where they find the KEY SCROLL, which holds the secret to time travel. 

During this journey Nick, an agent from a global council, funds Alex’s research but is secretly planning to usurp the scroll’s discovery.

Nick suspects Alex and finally closes in on him many years later. In a desperate move, an aging Alex turns over the scroll to Peter. He assigns him the mission to travel back in time to retrieve all the Dead Sea scrolls. Peter isskeptical that the KEY SCROLL has any power. After deep research Peter stumbles across a precious clue. He attempts Alex’smission but fails. He ends up in another time and disrupts history. He has an epiphany, and discovers the scroll was left behind for us by Jesus, as a gift to mankind. Now he is compelled to travel backin time to witness the actual Resurrection of Christ, regain his faith, and fulfill his destiny.
This story examines human faith, the futility of humankind, but also the eternalquestion “What If?” A blended genre of action adventure coupled with a Sci-Fi modus operandi. A search for truth leading to the ultimate test of faith. Time travel to answer the question – “Did Jesus really resurrect?”

LIFECREDIT

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In a broken future, people accept genetic RFID implants to survive, but a conspiracy theorist digs deeper to expose a dark secret, that traces back to the Roswell crash. 

Pitch: “Minority Report” meets “The X-Files” Hook: Dystopian Future – Terminator-Minority Report- AI – Artificial Intelligence and Technology takes over society with the secret alien microchip that promises so much, but ends up subjugating humanity and even tricking the elitist overlords into serving their alien masters. Payoff: Conspiracy theorist Sonny discovers and reveals the first part of the plan – he delays the alien conquest. the aliens shift gears to part 2 and he must continue to fight them to preserve an oblivious mankind. – payoff – survival. 

SYNOPSIS: In 2025, at CREDITCORP, IT manager Sonny Daniel discovers they have created a new solution for out of control debt: LIFECredit – an implantable nano-chip that wipes out debt and promises new life, and assigns new credit scores to everyone. All financial business will be processed through the chip. CREDITCORP, is a corporate/government conglomerate, run by powerful elitists. Sonny shares this discovery with his dad, whose careless snooping costs him his life. Sonny is now drawn into this conspiracy while courting Sonya, a girl he’s lost because of his wild conspiracies. Sonya left him because of his alarmist theories, that can endanger both of them in a “Big Brother” culture. Through all of this, Sonny tries to retain a clean record at the CREDITCORP to enhance his chances with Sonya, but soon realizes he can’t live in both worlds. He risks everything to convince her that he’s right. 

Meanwhile, people embrace LIFECredit and enjoy financial freedom as they believe their bailout has finally arrived; but this chip gives utter control to its creators. As Sonny predicted, people come in droves for the implant, but none of what’s promised is delivered. The program’s appeal leads people into lifelong bondage, as they literally sign their lives away and begin disappearing. Sonny must dig further, only to discover a much more sinister agenda afoot: the elitists receive all their orders from an off-world influence. His mission becomes much more complex, as Sonny commits to avenge his father’s murder, alert a society of impending serfdom, confront an off-world peril, and secure the love of his life, before he loses his.

Title: “Don Appetit!”

Log line: The Chicago Don throws a crazy cooking contest where “Made Guys” fight the pizza wars to win, but a slick “Bag-Man” may outwit them all with his own special dish. 

Pitch: “Analyze This” meets “Iron Chef”

My name is Jay Stamatis, and I would like to present my Dramedy feature script entitled Don Appetit!” This story is written along the lines of such movies as “Analyze This,” “Rat Race,” “Midnight Run”and “Hell’s Kitchen.”

Get a Taste of Chicago in this story whereEddie, a sharp bagman, wants to be a Made guy. The only problem is when Don Amato throws a crazy cooking contest to replace his dead chef, its only for Made men. Through a crazy twist of fate, Eddie, with help from his sidekick Jimbo, manages to infiltrate the contest as “The Missing Don.” A supposedly mythical figure that all made guys acknowledge. All the while, Don Amato is trying to figure out who murdered his Chef. He spies on all his guys, who begin to sabotage each other one by one, to win the cooking contest. The prize is to become the next “CHEF.” It becomes clear that this highly coveted position is not only for cooking, but for running all the Don’s rackets. 

Chaos unfolds, with Chef cameos, cooking shows and sportsbook antics, as nothing goes as planned. Even the Mob Wives get in on the action, as everybody tries to outwit everybody to win the prize. All the while, Eddie works behind the scenes to figure out the mystery of Chef Sandro’s death, and somehow become the new “Chef!” Meanwhile, Boss Enzo, who has a bone to pick with Don Amato, will do anything to get rid of him and take over the outfit. Everybody fights the pizza and pasta wars in a Chicago versus New York food extravaganza. Will Eddie or Da Jamokes win? In the end, only a Chicago Deep Dish Pizza will tell as everybody has a beef, in this uncanny tale of food, fun and family business.

This blended genre of foodies, Mob stuff and mystery resonates across most age groups. The only script with a backdrop of Chicago versus New York pizza and hotdogs connects with appetizing subcultures across the country. Coupled with Chef cameos to draw in Cooking show fans, along with a whodunnit drama that unfolds with eachbite, it surely has enough for drooling fans to relish!

The Cold Agenda

Title: “The Cold Agenda”

Log line: An engineer who has a premonition of a coming ice age uses Quantum physics to shift the world to an alternate reality, only to realize the ice age exists in the new reality.

Pitch: “Edge of Tomorrow” meets “Oblivion

My name is Jay Stamatis, and I would like to present my Sci-Fi feature script entitled “The Cold Agenda” This story is written along the lines of such movies as “Edge of Tomorrow” and “Oblivion.”

This story begins in 2025, where an engineer trapped in an Orwellian prisoncamp has stark visions of a frozen future. This drives him to escape to the surface. While tunneling out he is shocked to discover the hidden Quantum computer which controls an imprisoned society. He finds that the computer also controls multiple realities.

He figures out how to hack into its special “Parallel Program” to shift the world to an alternate reality, to avoid the coming ice age. He meets with startling success as the program’s alien algorithm takes hold and shifts the planet. He awakens in the new reality, where it becomes clear to him that a looming ice age will now befall the planet. It dawns on him that his apocalyptic glimpse of the future somehowspawned from the new reality. The cold irony being that the old world with prisoncamps was a better future for humankind. He must decipher this icy agenda to find his way back home, before the new world freezes over.

This story has multiple hooks, from an existing dystopia to a looming disaster. It also possesses elements of a thriller as the characters must decipher clues to survive.Search for:

Title: “Board of Tesla”


Board of Tesla

Logline: A schoolboy from the past and a teacher from the present must decipher the lost Tesla Papers, to save the world from previous war and future disaster.

My name is Jay Stamatis, and I would like to present my Historical Sci-Fi Pilot entitled “Board of Tesla.” This story is written along the lines of “Frequency” and “12 Monkeys.”

This story takes place in two concurrent timelines. It is about Nikola Tesla’s secret time travel papers. One timeline is in 1943, during The Philadelphia Experiment, fallout from the feud with Edison, the midst of a terrible war, and at the precipice of Tesla’s own death. Tesla must elude the Feds, who are trying to take his secret blueprints and documents. He turns over the Tesla papers to a young orphan boy, Daniel, to keep them from discovery. Daniel buries them in a time capsule for safekeeping in the front of his school. He leaves behind difficult clues that, once deciphered, lead to its whereabouts.

It isn’t until many years later, in the timeline of 2025, that a unique teacher named Mick will uncover the clues that lead to the Tesla Papers. Mick discovers that the papers are the actual time travel chronicles of Nikola Tesla. A disaster is about to unfold in 2025, that Tesla had foreseen and documented. Mick must do what he can to get others to believe him andavert certain disaster. Meanwhile, back in 1943, Daniel must keep the Feds from obtaining the Tesla papers or Mick won’t discover them, and certain disaster will befall our future.
This series has multiple hooks and elements that will thrill many viewers, across all age groups. From millennials, who adore Tesla cars, to older generations that remember the Tesla/Edison feud, to history buffs of WW II. It will resonate among the conspiracy theorists and preppers, who are waiting and watching for the next disaster to unfold.