Screamplay

Comedy/ Horror: Jumaji meets Heist Los Angeles: Present Day A gang of thieves set out to steal a precious Ankh, an ancient Egyptian antiquity that once belonged to Anubis, the god of the dead. It’s on a world tour that has now arrived at a Los Angeles museum. Their own plan is a bust. They need a better way to filch it. They believe a skilled screenwriter could provide the solution. Lola, a naïve 24-year-old horror screenwriter has yet to have a script produced. She’s desperate. Her journalist friend, Jake, writes a piece about her in the local paper. Mike Foster, the leader of the gang, reads the article and calls Lola telling her he’s a producer with a plan for a heist movie. Lola grabs the fake commission with both hands. Unfortunately, Lola wears a medallion called the Ra’ak stone inherited from her archaeologist grandfather. It was once part of the Ankh and was stolen by Cizin, the Mayan god of the subterranean, in a war to be lord of the underworld. The Ankh and the Ra’ak stone are now close together for the first time in millennia and start to react to each other’s presence. The Ra’ak stone radiates with the influence of Cizin. Lola is unaware that she is possessed. Under Cizin’s influence, the script successfully leads the gang, via the neighbouring morgue, to the museum where Foster grabs the Ankh. But after a dramatic intervention by Cizin and a hoard of living dead from the morgue, the script plot fails and the gang are trapped. Their only way out requires Lola to write a new page of the screenplay. This is the beginning of a series of dangerous encounters with Cizin’s zombie army in the tunnels under the city, and eventually, to Cizin’s Mayan temple in Central America. Each astonishing page that Lola writes in a trance-like daze offers new escape routes that turn into life-threatening traps. Eventually, Lola, Jake and Foster find themselves in a tomb containing the statue of Anubis. Foster abandons them as he attempts to flee with the Ankh and the laptop holding Lola’s last page. It’s a short-lived escape as he is grabbed by Cizin’s zombies. He drops the Ankh in the tomb but the laptop is destroyed. As a last resort, Lola and Jake fit the Ankh into Anubis’ fist. The statue awakens into unearthly life. Believing they are doomed; they are surprised when he shows them a way out by peering through the Ra’ak stone. They make their way up and back into the exhibition room from where the Ankh was stolen, and escape into the streets of L.A.