Clayton Emery's Screenplays

TV Series - 12 Episodes

America falls to
the Right Wing

"What happens to the average family in The New Right America?"

In the near future, the new "Freedom Acts" make everything forbidden.  The Alden family sinks under a flood of mandatory "family values".  One son is shanghaied into the service, the other indoctrinated as a snitch.  Riots, shortages, inflation, disease, and corruption surge around as everyone is chipped and monitored for "national security".  When a daughter dies from a illegal abortion, the family finally vows to fight back.  But how?  And is it too late?

TV drama, 12 one-hour episodes. Episode 1 is written and registered with the WGA.

Low budget.  Requires California suburbs, offices, schools.  Army patrols in the desert.  A few stunts, small firefights and riots.

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Stan Lynde's
LATIGO

TV Series
Western Comedy-Adventure

A legend of justice in the
Great American West

Based on Stan Lynde's comic strip, Latigo is a half-white, half-Crow, Civil War veteran returned to the lawless West.  Caught between two worlds, appointed a US Marshal, Latigo uses common sense, quiet humor and faith, two iron fists, and when needed, a lightning Colt to bring down bank robbers, catnappers, wayward preachers, robber barons, sultry assassins, roughshod ranchers, and Indian raiders.
 
Format
TV drama, 15 one-hour episodes.  Registered with the WGA.  Pilot is written and complete.
 
Latigo is owned by Stan Lynde and adapted by Clayton Emery.

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GREEN MANSIONS

MOW or Hallmark Special
Adapted from the classic novel

"What we love we destroy."

In the rain forest of the Upper Amazon, in 1840, a young wanderer meets Rima the Bird Girl, who talks to animals in an unknown tongue.  Smitten, Abel resolves to uncover her mysterious origin, while local Indians plot her destruction... 

Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest was published in 1904 by W.H. Hudson, a famous naturalist.  Lyrical and vivid, it became an literary classic in England, America, and Latin America.

120 pages.  Registered with the WGA.

Low budget.  Small cast of Latinos and Indians.  Rain forest setting: jungle, mountains, village.

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EVERY MAN A KING

MOW or Feature Film

America's "300"
The Battle of New Orleans

An American-British soldier, torn by loyalty to two countries, is hurled into the bizarre and bloody Battle of New Orleans - and ends up in a surprising place.
 
Based on true historical accounts, "Every Man a King" was originally published in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF SWORD AND HONOR.

91 pages.  Registered with the WGA.
 
Low-mid budget.  Medium cast.  Battles in swamps, fields, and mud flats.  Final battle takes place in fog, so a small-scale set suffices.

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BEASTS OF SHERWOOD

Feature Film Franchise

Sorcery, spirits, and
swords surround
the legendary outlaws

As the Outlaws of Sherwood suffer a "starving spring", old enemies set murder in motion.  A sorceress spins spells, the dead rise, and storms crack.  A hell-boar runs wild as cutthroats rape and pillage in Lincoln Green.  Black-robed monks bear bad tidings from King Richard.  Even Herne and Puck, fairy guardians of the forest, steer Robin toward unknown peril.  Attacked on all sides, Robin Hood and His Merry Men and Women and Children learn too the trap has sprung, and Sherwood Forest explodes in fire, treachery, and blood...

Low-mid budget.  Shootable in Canada or Europe.  Requires a large cast, forest and castle and tower, stunts and stunt animals, some CGI.

119 pages, complete. Registered with the WGA.

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JUMPING THE JACK

SF Feature Film or MOW

"In space, no one can hear the warranty has expired..."

Shot down, Sam and Hannah are marooned on an antique space station in the Outblack.  Hunted and hated, the starship engineers dodge warring aliens and colonists only to discover the inside-out pod-world is in danger of disintegrating.  When Union Marines break the pod open, the husband-wife team face their biggest obstacle - get everyone to cooperate, or everyone dies.

Mid budget, requires rural sets, access tunnels, human and CGI aliens, a few stunts and special effects.

119 pages, complete. Registered with the WGA.

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PALE GHOST

In flaming frontier war,
one man spies murder...

In 1703, war scorches the Maine frontier.  French Soldiers and Mohawk Indians raid American villages, scalping, burning, pillaging, and kidnapping.  Yet as Joseph Fisher picks through the rubble, he finds a murdered man among the dead - and knows the killer is from the village.  Sickly and frail, yet with a mind keen as a tomahawk, the outcast "White Indian" risks grisly torture, Puritan justice, pirate savagery, and drowned ghosts to hunt down the truth - or die trying.

Low budget, requires a seaside village, dark forest, large cast.

119 pages. Registered with WGA.

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PULL

18-Page Screenplay
Free to students and non-profits*

Harassed and humiliated by a local gang, a kid steals his father's gun, confronts the gang, kills the leader, and is killed in turn.  REWIND.  He confronts the gang and... does what?  It takes six tries to prove that talking works better than fighting.

Teen cast, all male, any race.  Five speaking parts. Two locations: a city alley and apartment.

This screenplay is FREE for students and other non-profits.*

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*Legal Agreement: Clayton Emery retains the screenplay copyright, gets his name credited on screen, and receives a copy of the finished film in any medium. The producer retains the production copyright. Any profits after expenses are split 50/50. This deal is non-exclusive.

GHOSTS AT THE DOOR

Why won't the dead stay dead?

Three college girls exploring an attic are trapped by three ghosts. What do they want?  And what tries to stop them?

Non-stop suspense, action, and humor - all in 8 pages!

Teen cast, all female, any race.  Three speaking parts.
Two locations: attic and hallway, graveyard.

This screenplay is FREE for students and other non-profits.*

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*Legal Agreement: Clayton Emery retains the screenplay copyright, gets his name credited on screen, and receives a copy of the finished film in any medium. The producer retains the production copyright. Any profits after expenses are split 50/50. This deal is non-exclusive.