Loglines & Screenplays by Michael K. Lanahan

GENRES: Western

The most famous villain in the history of the Old West, John Wesley Hardin, was in reality a hero. This is the true story.

GENRES: Science Fiction

What if this time the giant asteroid didn’t miss? A hundred years later, in a hell frozen over, an outlander con artist and the biosphere's old town drunk become humanity’s last hope.

GENRES: Horror

A Psychology Professor leads an eclectic group of gifted seers, one skeptic and one killer on a field trip to do paranormal experiments at Spirit Lake in the mountains, a sight of a long ago Indian massacre. The spirits are vengeful.

GENRES: Action, Other

An Internal Affairs cop from L.A. who really hates dirty cops, reluctantly gets involved in the murder investigation of his dad, the Sheriff of a small New Mexico town, whom he hasn’t seen since he was in short pants.  When he accidentally discovers evidence that makes it look like his dad was dirty, he is shocked to his core.

GENRES: Romance, Thriller / Suspense

A WWII spy thriller inspired by the true story of how in 1941 the Haganah, the pre-Mossad Zionist secret service, smuggled Jews out of Nazi occupied Europe, via Istanbul (the “City of Spies") to British Palestine against conspired resistance from Germany, England, Russia and Turkey.  "City of Spies" was selected by a panel of 10 WGA writers as the winner of the 2019 WGAw's Seasoned Readings Program contest for best unproduced script.   

GENRES: Comedy

The 80’s. To get a date with the hottest girl in his high school, the boy cons his whiz kid buddy into making an "MTV" style video of him. The girl wants one too. The boys swears her to secrecy since they are using the high school’s AV equipment without permission. Word gets out. Everybody wants one. The boys, and the girl, are in business. Then Murphy’s Law kicks in.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

Post pandemic, a woman opens her life to online dating without realizing she's selected a man who's gone completely murderous and mad from the quarantine. Nutshell: Wrong Swipe + Fatal Attraction.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense

A young female African-American flight attendant searches for a missing colleague unaware that a serial rapist/killer is preying on the female flight attendants of LAX. Back in High School her best friend disappeared and was never found. Despite systemic indifference, racism and the danger, our flight attendant is determined to find the missing young Black woman this time.

GENRES: Action

A hick from French Lick (IN) loses his wrestling scholarship to a rich man’s son, falls in with adrenaline-fueled college students who set up a bling ring to pay their tuition and finance their lifestyle. Living the fast life is great until the Russian mafia muscles in and a senior L.A.P.D. detective hunts them down. 

GENRES: Horror

Sherlock Holmes battles both his inner demons… severe depression… and his greatest adversary… Dracula, in exotic Istanbul.  The great detective begins to fear for his sanity as all the clues to the murders of the Sultan’s heirs point to a supernatural solution that that supreme empiricist, Sherlock Holmes, cannot accept.