THE STUNT LIST | SEASON 3
THE FUSION OF IP AND ORIGINAL VOICE
Exciting world premieres from Showrunner and Executive Producer of The Walking Dead, Executive Producer of The Shield and Beacon 23 Glen Mazzara, as well as Jonathan Lynn — director of My Cousin Vinny, The Whole Nine Yards, and Clue... A buzzy stunt BIOPIC of NBC's legendary TV Executive Brandon Tartikoff... How about an Insecure spec with an original song from a rapper-turned-screenwriter repped by CAA and Bellevue Productions... The Sopranos and Sex and the City aired at the same time, in the same city... you want a dope crossover episode? You got it all here—
THE STUNT LIST is a rad showcase of market-ready voices — Ready to discover your next client?
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Exclusive, never-before-seen ink from LEGENDARY storytellers—you’re not gonna wanna miss this.
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Legacy sequels, BIOPICS, and Celebrities Playing Themselves have set Hollywood ablaze—and we’ve got your next heat wave.
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Peanut butter & jelly. Popcorn & theaters. Sex and The City & The Sopranos—fuhgeddaboudit.
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Seen EVERY episode of your favorite show like 647 times? Get a new dope episode here.
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Don’t call it a comeback—these rad writers are essentially The Avengers of The Stunt-verse.
SPECIAL GUESTS & EDITOR'S NOTE
THE DARK TOWER
Written by Glen Mazzara
Executive Producer and Showrunner for THE WALKING DEAD, Executive Producer for BEACON 23 and THE SHIELD.
SCRIPT WORLD PREMIERE
Logline: Based on The Dark Tower books by Stephen King, young Roland Deschain investigates a treacherous plot in the town of Mejis, far from his hometown of Gilead. Here he finds love and learns of his true destiny.
Written by Jonathan Lynn
Director of MY COUSIN VINNY, THE WHOLE NINE YARDS, and writer/director of CLUE.
MAYDAY
Logline: Ernest Mayday, a best-selling British author living in a Hollywood Hills mansion with a beautiful masseuse, has everything that money can buy - except an idea for his next book.
SCRIPT WORLD PREMIERE
EDITOR’S NOTE
Written by Eric Moyer
As Co-founder and Executive Curator of The Stunt List, Eric Moyer expresses his philosophy on inspiration vs motivation, shares an awesome experience with Jonathan Lynn, highlights some rad folks in the screenwriter twitter community, and highlights some of his favorite movie & screenwriting podcasts.
FEATURES
An American Pie sequel spec where the East Great Falls High gang reunites for a more somber occasion: Stifler’s Mom’s Funeral.
Actor Zac Efron is trying to change his career and ditch his charming romantic roles for characters with more depth when his world collides with an average girl who works at Tinder when she is tasked with verifying the authenticity of his online dating account.
In this never-before-seen leaked vanity project, Jeff Bezos plays James Bond and saves the world from a mysterious villain that plans to kill every billionaire.
With little time left in her famous actor father's life, a devoted Jane Fonda risks her career and marriage to repair their long-troubled relationship and make a film worthy of his sole Oscar over his 40+ year career. Based on a true story.
Bob and Charlotte reunite having not seen or heard from each other for twenty years. This time, however, Charlotte is the one experiencing a mid-life crisis, and Bob is the only one who can help her navigate through it.
After a disastrous fiscal year, Bob Iger must track down a magic wand that can save Disney. However, the only man who can find the wand is Iger's arch-nemesis: Bob Chapek.
In a dystopian future Detroit, a resurrected RoboCop, once a symbol of corporate power, joins forces with a group of anti-police activists to expose a sinister conspiracy and ignite a revolution against the oppressive regime that has risen from the ashes of OCP.
When a brilliant scientist is betrayed by her business partner and left for dead, survival means using the only bodies she has available: a set of synthetic prototypes she modeled after hunky past recipients of People Magazine's ‘Sexiest Man Alive.’
When the late Cledus’s nephews are sent back to Texarkana for another truckload of Coors by the Enos Brothers and an ailing Bandit himself, they bring back more than they bargained for, for Bandit and for themselves.
CROSSOVERS
Imprisoned for, y’know, all the murders, Barry Berkman faces his own untimely demise at the hands of the Uzbek mob if he doesn’t silence a snitch from the east coast who’s got all the dirt... on New York’s hottest clubs.
Michael Scott and the employees of Dunder Mifflin are thrown into chaos after the announcement of ‘The Purge,’ a 12-hour period where any and all crime is legal.
The Sopranos and Sex and the City aired at the same time and took place miles apart. So why did we never get a crossover episode?
When Guillermo takes the vampires to a karaoke bar, they cross paths with the characters from The Other Two.
TV SPECS
Field Day at Abbott Elementary leads to team bonding, surprising displays of athleticism, and only a few injuries.
With their partnership in danger of unraveling, a new case pulls Tribeca and Geils into the underbelly of the fiber arts world.
When Barry Berkman and his acting classmates are trapped in a hostage situation in a local Ralph's grocery store, Barry must try to find a way to keep his friends safe and not reveal his secret murderous nature. Set during Season 2 of BARRY.
Years before working as a freelance bio-exorcist, Beetlejuice struggles to stay on the straight and narrow as he and Juno help the recently deceased cross to the "other side" one case at a time.
It’s been 30 years since the apocalyptic “Dinosaurs” series finale. Now, in the throes of a slow-moving climate cataclysm, dino detective Robbie Sinclair (the eldest son of the shattered Sinclair family) sleuths his way through the cold, corrupt, crime-ridden streets of prehistoric Pangaea on the trail of the mega-city’s most notorious bloodthirsty serial killer: his own estranged younger brother, Baby Sinclair!
Welcome back to County General! When the old crew returns to honor Dr. John Carter, they get more than they bargained for when a terrorist attack erupts on the L. Working with the new faces at County, our former guard will see firsthand that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Following the events of Euphoria Season 1, Rue is fresh into her newfound sobriety and must navigate her potentially toxic relationship with Jules.
This is a true story. The events depicted took place in Minnesota in 1997. After a date night to see the Oscar-buzzworthy FARGO while it’s still in theaters, a down-on-his-luck man and his married lover are inspired by the film to fake her kidnapping in order to collect a one million dollar ransom from her rich husband.
After Frasier and Niles are impressed by the taste and sophistication of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs, the Crane brothers decide to dabble in cannibalism.
A secret sect of Nazi hunters receives intel of a Nazi hiding as a porn magnate in the San Fernando Valley. Jonah, the protagonist, is enlisted to travel to LA undercover as an aspiring porn star while the other members of the group create a tool for Jonah of such enormous size and capability that it kills the Nazi with one stroke.
When a face from the past (Abby from the waterpark) shows up, offering the gang a quick score via a heist, the gang is all in.
Centuries after the Ring’s been destroyed, Sméagol emerges from molten hibernation in modern-day LA and battles a shallow influencer for his stolen mansion while dodging a ruthless Hollywood producer out to steal the “Lord of the Rings” rights. Can this wretched creature go viral, reclaim his home, and find redemption in a world obsessed with “likes”?
While Manny plans his 15th birthday Quinceañera, Phil decides to make a really “rad” video-will after being inspired by seeing Jay make his own.
Alex is visited by ghosts from her past, present, and future, causing her to face her fears and finally stand up to Mitch who has just been sued by another woman for misconduct. Meanwhile, Cory promotes Mia to co-EP which angers Chip. This episode takes place in Season 1.
When the Muppets' captain is injured and their space ship is left nearly destroyed by an evil overlord, they must use a down-on-his-luck sea captain from earth to pilot their ship back home and save the galaxy.
Post season three curse, dead babies start appearing all over town. Nancy and the gang must figure out where they’re coming from all while dealing with the bombshell of finding out Nancy is pregnant with Ace’s baby.
After the separation of Stede Bonnet and Edward Teach, Blackbeard has resurfaced to reign terror on the Spanish Mane, while Stede tries desperately to rescue his crew from their marooned island.
After Paul McCartney dies in an accident at the height of Beatlemania, Mi5 recruits a lookalike to avert a global crisis.
Based on the 2002 film of the same name, the last traces of humanity team up for a mission to London twenty years from now to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known... dragons.
FLASHBACK TO 2013: Ris — now in college — once again crosses paths with Dre, years after her foster sister was kicked out of their parents' house for the ‘incident.’ The two women try to reconnect on campus during the most important Game Day of the year, but underlying tensions soon surface despite their best efforts to hide them. Also, rumor has it Ni'Jah is dropping a new album.
Kimmy helps Jacqueline put her life back together after the divorce. Titus finds inspiration in helping a young entrepreneur. (This spec takes place after season 1 ends, as the start of an alternate season 2.)
Under the glittering lights and behind the closed doors of Sin City are all kinds of vice – some legal and some not. Private eye Dan Tanna is Las Vegas’s ace detective, and he’s ready to close a whole new slate of cases with an update.
On a Nevermore class trip to New York City, Wednesday is stretched thin between her friends’ tiresome travel itinerary and her hunt for a haunting serial killer lurking within the city’s decrepit subway tunnels.
In this new season of The White Lotus, an all new cast of characters (but also of course, Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya) converges for another week of rest and relaxation that slowly goes off the rails, this time at the luxury hotel chain’s latest acquisition: the Great Wolf Lodge family waterpark resort in Grapevine, Texas. Inspired by a tweet by @polarseltzer.
When the Hundred Acre Wood is gentrified, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends must face real life – and police entrapment – in rough-and-tumble Hundred Acre City.
Joe from Netflix’s YOU meets a Promising Young Woman… After the events of Season 3, Joe follows Marienne to Paris – the City of Love. He encounters a new cast of characters amidst the literary backdrop of his dreams, while plotting his way back into Marienne's heart...
ALUMNI
After the boys enter a contest to be a stand-in for Zachary Quinto on the next Star Trek film, Sheldon's usual brilliance is befuddled by his complete lack of creative writing ability, the memory of a failed audition for the role of Spock, and the presence of Wil Wheaton in the competition!
Twenty years after gaining fame as a children’s book character, a young fashion design hopeful who’s allergic to adulting, has an opportunity to get her life back on track - unless a certain self-sabotaging disorder rears its ugly head.
A psychedelic real-time retelling of the true story of Dock Ellis’s 1970 no-hitter on LSD and the larger-than-life circumstances surrounding it.
As Reacher attends the funeral of an old friend in Texas, he gets dragged into a dispute that splits the town’s crime family in two: between his friend’s old business partner and his friend’s developmentally disabled son - and one of them is responsible for the murder.
Wayne misses Rosie, so Katy, Darry, and Squirrely Dan try throwing him a surprise party. Jonesy and Riley try to find a place to sleep after their billet house gets bed bugs.
In this workplace mockumentary comedy series following a group of lowly (and poorly-supervised) engineers at Stark Industries, an ambitious but reckless intern struggles to keep his side project a secret as it proves to be increasingly dangerous and possibly threatening to the lives of his whole department.
Two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout Milwaukee and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank, Freddy and his climate activist friends fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.
When Vic Mackey goes on his first ICE raid in 2020 after 15 years behind a desk - busting up a 15-year-old Latinx boy’s birthday party - he goes on a mission to set this family free… against the orders of a controversial administration.
When the School for Special Teens blows up, it's up to the three worst students to save the world.
After mysteriously being discharged from Starfleet, Dr. Beverly Crusher leads a team of rebellious doctors to help worlds the Federation’s forgotten.
The occasionally true story of how the most stubborn couple in Hollywood revived a dead network, ushered in a new golden age in television, and punched cancer in the face.
A trip to Costco! Nandor finally decides to help Guillermo shop for house supplies. Lazlo and Nadja tag along for a nice evening out, until they’re reminded of a painful memory from Lazlo’s past. Colin Robinson attempts to return a stationary bike he purchased in 1996.
When Nandor can’t remember how he earned his nickname, he suffers an existential crisis that lands him on a hockey team, and leads him to a disgusting discovery on the ice.
When Jamie and Sarah's attempt to assassinate Beth fails, it sets up a kill or be killed showdown at the ranch that will determine who controls the Dutton empire and the future of Paradise Valley for the next generation.
SHOW NOTES
Read a PERSONAL LETTER from our co-founder Eric Moyer about motivation. Loved a stunt script? Contact a writer HERE. Follow Stephen King, Glen Mazzara, and Jonathan Lynn. Listen to Glen Mazzara talk about the shelved Dark Tower pilot on the KINGCAST podcast. Get the full The Dark Tower novel series plus rad details on Stephen King’s website. View The Stunt List Season 1 and Season 2. Stay tuned for a murderer’s row of original horror when The Dead List launches October 2024 — view Season 1. Ear-peep some of our fav pods: Scriptnotes. Two Writers Talking Shit. Screaming Into The Hollywood Abyss. From Inside The House. Arts Calling. The Screenwriting Life. Best Movies Never Made. The Filmcast. Dig the Stunt List artwork? Hire our design wizard Justin H. Olson.
*DISCLAIMER
This is not a “best of” list. These scripts were not judged or ranked, merely vetted and curated for industry quality. The Stunt List is created as an artistic home to encourage writers to showcase their unique and original voices through the lens of their favorite movies and TV shows. Sorta like being in a writers room :)
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