Yusuf Gad

Saladin Quick Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy ⋄ Mystery After dropping out of college, two best friends (a Muslim and a Jew) juggle dead-end jobs while trying to solve a string of workplace murders without getting fired, killed, or losing their high.

Drip Budget: $10M - $30M | Fantasy ⋄ Horror After Earth’s surface is rendered uninhabitable, vampires rebuild civilization deep underground. Humans survive under strict rule—segregated, surveilled, and kept alive not by compassion, but by necessity. Peace depends on Synthoglobin, a synthetic blood substitute that allows vampires to feed without killing. It’s a system held together by fear, ritual, and compromise—and it’s beginning to fracture. When the vampire Minister of Blood is found staked in his office, it’s the first murder of its kind in centuries. He was more than a politician—he was the architect of the fragile truce between species. His death threatens to unravel the entire order. The Ministry turns to Detective Alexandra Gamble, a human officer known for turning in her own parents after a terrorist attack. To vampires, she’s loyal. To humans, she’s a traitor. To herself, she’s someone trying to prove that the law still matters. She’s assigned to work with Jaromir Bartel, a vampire soldier from a marginalized House and the Minister’s most trusted ally. Together, they investigate a crime no one wants solved. Witnesses are executed. Records vanish. And rising political forces call for mass human expulsions. At the same time, attacks begin: coordinated, symbolic, violent. A resistance cult known as the Golden Circle is taking credit. And its leader is Israella, Alex’s estranged sister. The deeper Alex digs, the more the case refuses to stay a case. The Minister wasn’t just staked—he was bled out from the inside. His Synthoglobin had been laced with an anticoagulant. The lifeblood of the empire, what’s supposed to keep vampires from killing humans, had been turned into a weapon. Soon, the deaths spread. Quiet at first. Then public. A vampire child collapses in a restaurant. Then another. Hospitals fill. Panic follows. And just like that, the lie that held the empire together, that the system works, that the blood is safe, dissolves in real time. Alex is no longer investigating a murder. She’s witnessing the opening moves of a revolution. And the person leading it knows exactly how to hurt her. Because the head of the Golden Circle is Alex's step-sister. DRIP is a grounded, character-driven sci-fi thriller about power, control, and the cost of peace. Set in a richly imagined underground empire, it asks what happens when the only thing more dangerous than rebellion is loyalty.