Loglines & Screenplays by Rick J. Lucas

GENRES: Drama, Thriller

After witnessing the killing of his activist brother as a young boy, a brilliant but unsettled Black college professor joins two students on a turbulent social justice march and must race to find an escape as the three become trapped between the spiraling mob and a rogue cop. SELMA meets CIVIL WAR.

GENRES: Thriller

In the aftermath of the Second Civil War, when gun ownership has become mandatory, a disenfranchised young gamer leads a unlikely résistance movement to unmask the secrets behind the ultimate game: government-sanctioned showdowns to the death.

GENRES: Drama

The beleaguered staff of the largest animal shelter in Los Angeles struggle with burnout and personal hardship as they defend the animals in their care and their South Central neighbors from the county’s push for gentrification. Recurring series. 

GENRES: Drama

A washed-out former NYT investigative journalist, now relegated to a backwater town newspaper, wrestles with his conscience (and state assassins) after an anonymous source sends him a document that could change the course of Western civilization.