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ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION READY SCREENPLAYS
Award winning short filmmaker and screenwriter Michael Trachiotis creates original and compelling stories that feature diverse cultures, genders, races and genres including: Action, adventure, drama, thriller, suspense, martial arts, history, mystery, fantasy, supernatural, horror, Sci-Fi, spiritualism, noir, inspirational and coming of age stories written to appeal to domestic and international markets that focus on 18-34 demographics but also teen, young adult and older audiences.
BLUE GIRL
BLUE GIRL - ONE PAGER
Teen-Young Adult-Adult-Female-Multicultural-International
YA-Coming of Age-Superhero-Sci-Fi-Fantasy-Drama-Spiritual-Mystery
LOGLINE
She glows indigo. She levitates. She brings the dying back from the edge. A teenage girl reincarnates as the prophesied Goddess; a superhero destined to save the world, but to fulfill this ancient prophecy and awaken her cosmic healing power, she must undergo a perilous metamorphosis on a heroic, superhuman journey to the highest place on Earth.
A NEW KIND OF SUPERHERO.
It is a sci-fi, YA, coming-of-age, suspenseful fantasy for girls and audiences who want to see power as something that changes the world without destruction, cosmic stakes without violence, and a hero whose strength comes from within who saves the world by becoming something entirely new. That combination gives it a genuine market identity.
WHY THIS STORY?
The script knows what it wants the audience to see. It swings for something ambitious. It blends supernatural mythology, coming-of-age drama, spiritual science fiction, teen celebrity culture, and apocalyptic prophecy into one large narrative engine. That kind of scale can absolutely attract attention because it feels visually cinematic from page one.
THE COMPARABLES
Captain Marvel - A female-led coming-of-age origin story with large-scale cosmic consequences, identity discovery, high-impact sci-fi spectacle, and like Rebecca, they share a journey from suburban normalcy to universal, transcendent power.
Everything Everywhere All At Once - Where cosmic stakes are deeply emotional and personal paralleling Rebecca’s mental, physical and spiritual transformational arc.
The Hunger Games - Connects to Rebecca as a girl pushed into a role she never wanted. Rebecca didn’t ask for the power, the power wanted her.
Princess Mononoke - Like Princess Mononoke, Rebecca is at odds with her newfound path and the spiritual struggle between destiny and humanity.
FRANCHISE POTENTIAL
This is a big, sincere, visually distinctive mythic fantasy with a real hook: A girl turning blue, reviving butterflies, healing the sick, and becoming the center of a global spiritual event. It is not small-ball material.
“Blue Girl” has the basic DNA of a YA fantasy superhero origin story but filtered through Buddhist iconography, internet fame, military pursuit and end-times mythology. Rebecca is more than a superhero; she is a divine Goddess ready to make the ultimate sacrifice to save humanity. That blend gives the piece scale – and appeal.
It has built in social media content ready to sing to young adult females and global audiences that portends sequels, TV spinoffs, streaming content, games and comics.
THE CHRYSANTHEMUM GARDEN
THE CHRYSANTHEMUM GARDEN - ONE PAGER
Adult-Female-Male-American-Japanese-Multicultural-International
Drama-Romance-Tragedy-Historical-Psychological-Rebirth-Spiritual-Inspiration
LOGLINE
After her husband is killed in a jealous act during the pandemic, a widowed Japanese woman isolated in America spirals into an alcohol-fueled misery, until a prayer delivers an elderly gardener who teaches her before new life can bloom, the dead must be uprooted, forcing her to pick between despair or the miracle growing within her.
A FEMALE-CENTERED STUDY OF GRIEF, CHOICE, REBIRTH AND INSPIRATION.
“The Chrysanthemum Garden” is a lyrical, restrained, emotionally immersive and visually poetic story. It is a character driven, historical, romantic, psychological drama that examines human behavior and moral dilemmas when confronted with death and isolation and the consequences of choices while under extreme duress and hardship while struggling to survive.
WHY THIS STORY?
Misaki chases her dream to work and live in America. As she struggles with pandemic isolation, death, despair, and alcoholism driven grief, an elderly gardener becomes an unexpected mentor, gently guiding her toward rebirth and restoration.
Through this intergenerational bond, the story explores how wisdom, compassion and cultural heritage can illuminate a path through pain, suffering and uncertainty. Set in the Silicon Valley yet enriched by diverse, cross-cultural influence - including Japan - the story weaves tradition and modern identity into a layered emotional, psychological journey.
THE COMPARABLES
Manchester by the Sea - Misaki, like Lee Chandler is consumed by a devastating loss that leaves her isolated, haunted by guilt, and unable to imagine a future. But where Lee Chandler learns to live with a wound that may never fully heal, Misaki is confronted with the possibility that new life – and the courage to embrace it – offers her the chance to emerge from the ruins.
Pieces of a Woman - Like Martha Weiss, Misaki is forced into an intimate confrontation with devastating loss, retreating from the world as grief fractures her sense of self and future. A deeply human portrait of isolation, guilt, and the fragile process of learning to live after unimaginable loss. Where Martha struggles to rebuild herself after tragedy, Misaki must confront her grief while discovering that new life can emerge without erasing the life she has lost.
Minari - Like Monica Yi, Misaki is a woman caught between cultures and worlds, searching for belonging while carrying the weight of family, loss and an uncertain future. Where Monica struggles to build a home for her family in unfamiliar soil, Misaki must learn to make a home within herself – discovering that from devastated ground, something living can take root.
The Secret Garden - A lyrical story of grief, renewal and the restorative power of nature, where tending what has been abandoned becomes a way of tending the self. Mary Lennox is emotionally orphaned by profound loss, withdrawn into isolation until a neglected garden becomes the doorway back to life, like Misaki who finds in Jack’s dying chrysanthemums – and the new life growing within her – the courage to begin again.
FRANCHISE POTENTIAL
“The Chrysanthemum Garden” has strong appeal for domestic and international audiences with solid break-out potential as it offers a moving portrait of healing, reconciliation and the transformative power of family.
Suitable for younger and older audiences is particularly attractive for domestic and global audiences, especially in the Pacific Rim, as all people can relate to the pandemic, being quarantined, loss of loved ones and the struggle of rebuilding life after a disaster.
CURSE OF THE GLASS EYE
PITCH DECK
ONE PAGER
Adult-Female-Male-Diverse-Multicultural-International
Heist-Crime-Horror-Revenge-Supernatural-Thriller-Dark Comedy-Noir
LOGLINE
After a charismatic thief’s diamond heist triggers unintended murders, he plans one last score to avenge their deaths – but his bloodthirsty, double-crossing partner’s Vodou-cursed severed hand has other plans, unleashing a deadly hunt for payback.
DIAMONDS. THEIVES. BLOOD. VODOU.
A stylish San Francisco crime-noir thriller that collides with supernatural horror, dark comedy and Vodou mythology. At its center is Rocko – a charismatic British-American thief attempting his most difficult job yet: escaping the criminal life before the consequences of his past come knocking.
WHY THIS STORY?
“Curse of the Glass Eye” is a fresh mash-up of commercially recognizable genres with a distinctive soul: a sophisticated diamond heist, colorful criminals with dry, sarcastic humor, crooked schemes, double-crosses and Vodou folklore that is culturally grounded rather than deployed as a disposable horror gimmick.
Ultimately, beneath the blood, wisecracks and heists, it is an emotional narrative about guilt, accountability, redemption, family and the price of getting away – verses getting away clean.
THE COMPARABLES
Snatch - A colorful ensemble of thieves, hustlers and eccentric crooks centered around a diamond, double-crosses, shifting alliances and overlapping storylines; the cheeky crime-comedy DNA that informs Rocko’s world.
The Last Diamond - A recently paroled thief is pulled into one more diamond robbery where he is caught between money, love and morality, making it a particularly strong reference for Rocko’s criminal redemption arc.
The Gentlemen - Sophisticated criminals, elaborate schemes, back-stabbers and charismatic antiheroes provide a tonal reference for the “Curse of the Glass Eye’s” stylish underworld and fast-moving, character-driven crime plot.
Angel Heart - A private eye lives in the world of noir investigation. Rocko’s realm is elaborate diamond heists. Both learn that occult forces have manipulated events that progressively reveal Vodou as more than superstition – it has real supernatural consequences.
The Serpent and the Rainbow - A clear reference point for “Curse of the Glass Eye’s” supernatural mythology as these thriller brings Haitian Vodou, resurrection and the living dead into an adult genre framework.
FRANCHISE POTENTIAL
“Curse of the Glass Eye” offers an expandable criminal universe because it introduces a world capable of escalating well beyond a single heist. Rocko and his flamboyant crew can move into new international scores involving stolen art, diamonds, historical treasures and criminal syndicates. Each tale can combine sophisticated theft mechanics with a fresh supernatural mystery rooted in global folklore and mysticism.
The hook is simple: new score, new city, new curse, new villains. The criminal world keeps expanding and Rocko keeps finding trouble with his name on it.
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A BANQUET OF FLESH
(RE-WRITING)
Young Adult-Adult-Female-Male-Diverse-Multicultural-International
Horror-Sci-Fi-Virus-Alien-Walking Dead-Action-Apocalypse-Thriller
This is a high-stakes, globe-trotting thriller with apocalyptic urgency – think “Contagion” and “Night of the Living Dead” melded with “The Thing” and a dash of “Indiana Jones” bio-horror.
LOGLINE
An Alien, flesh-eating virus gorges on humans turning them into rabid, living corpses. The only cure lies in a plant deep within the Malaysian jungle. In a race against time and hunted by drug company mercenaries, native rebels and aboriginal warlords, a rogue American bio-pirate and his team must extract the rare nectar and create a serum before the annihilation of humanity.
SPIRIT WALKER
(NEEDS UPDATING & POLISHING)
Young Adult-Adult-Female-Male-Native American-Diverse-Multicultural
Supernatural-Adventure-Thriller-Crime-Mystery-Mythology-Spiritual
This is a fascinating concept - supernatural thriller meets spiritual mystery, with a morally complex protagonist at the center with a strong mythic undercurrent.
LOGLINE
A bizarre series of seemingly unconnected murders, suicides, abductions and accidents lead FBI agents on a manhunt of a clairvoyant Native American shaman who reluctantly embraces his vision quest to reclaim the dead spirits of the living by intervening and resurrecting their souls so they can fulfill mortal lives. As the agents close in, the line between crime and cosmic justice begins to blur..
MANOSAUR
(NEEDS UPDATING & POLISHING)
Teen-Young Adult-Adult-Female-Male-Native American-Diverse-Multicultural
Superhero-Action-Sci-Fi-Adventure-Thriller-Creature-Mythology-Horror
This is a wild, genre-bending thrill ride - part creature feature, part coming-of-age, with a splash of native lore and high-octane action. The concept is both pulpy and original.
LOGLINE
Buried for centuries, the eggs of a mythic predator are unearthed by a teenage Ute paleontologist. When one hatches and bites him, he mutates into a towering human-dinosaur hybrid. Now, torn between man and beast, he must battle a sadistic biker gang — and a teenage T-Rex with a taste for blood — to protect the girl he loves and the town he calls home.
STAR BABY
(NEEDS UPDATING & POLISHING)
Young Adult-Adult-Female-Male-Multi-Genders-Diverse-Multicultural
Rock & Roll-Drama-Tragedy-Music-Inspiration
This is a gritty, redemptive character arc wrapped in raw rock-star excess - a dark, emotionally charged journey of ego, downfall, and potential rebirth.
LOGLINE
Once a global sensation, now a drunken, fading icon drowning in drugs, ego, and regret. After humiliating a devoted young fan and exploiting a dying cancer patient to resurrect her public image, a bisexual rock star spirals toward oblivion. But at her lowest - with a needle in her arm and the Grim Reaper closing in - she’s given one last shot at redemption. To save a life - and maybe her own.