The Newells by Steve Garry | Script Revolution

The Newells

Series Premise: Ordinary suburban parents with dreams of a better life have two intriguing children - are the kids' magic experiences imaginary or real?

Type:

  • TV Pilot

Status:

  • For sale
Page Count: 
56pp

Genre:

  • Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror

Budget:

  • Independent

Age Rating:

  • Everyone
Synopsis/Details: 

Pilot description: A young brother and sister try to out-scare one another with bedtime fables, to prove who is the more irresponsible of the two.

If the floorboard outside your room creaks after midnight, it may be the monster from the wardrobe down the hall, as it waits to take away any kids who deny their sleep!

And if that isn’t scary enough: How about a neighbor’s tree house, or a fanciful wish at a campfire, or a popular eatery at the mall.

Those don’t sound very scary.

But wait: Just why does old Mrs. McGillicuddy have a tree house? And what does hot breath have to do with a runny nose? And what exactly do they serve at this eatery?

Because as two irresponsible kids - precocious, by-the-book 10-year-old Alexa and street-smart 12-year-old Bobby - try to spook each other with nightmarish allegories, a malevolent force may be watching, listening and judging from just outside their bedroom door.

It’s time to grow up, kids. Or time to become the menu!

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Submitted: February 21, 2017
Last Updated: March 24, 2021

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The Writer: Steve Garry
I wrote my first screenplay in 2008: A "fan fiction" sequel to my favorite film. The exercise served as a release of my pent-up wishes and hopes for what might have "happened next" in that movie. It began a creative outburst that was surprising, yet somehow predicable, too, for composition was my favorite subject in my earliest years of elementary school. But somewhere between then and now, I must have felt that writing wasn't a serious or possibly an attainable career. My writing methodology is unique because I use many of the same skills I used for decades as a software programmer. The stories must be both "logical" and "bug free". Oh, and hopefully thought-provoking, entertaining,... Go to bio
Law Firm: Archer Entertainment Law

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