The War on Terror by Steve Garry | Script Revolution

The War on Terror

Type:

  • Feature

Status:

  • For sale
Page Count: 
99pp

Genre:

  • Comedy, Thriller

Budget:

  • Blockbuster

Age Rating:

  • 13+
Logline: 
A terrorist group triggers a path to disaster that a War Room full of generals and CIA analysts frantically tries to stop.
Synopsis/Details: 

If you liked "Dr. Strangelove", you'll enjoy these updated takes on the powers-that-be as they play war games with the fate of the world!

They could be the honest-to-goodness most controversial scripts you will ever read. I do not pretend to solve the issue of the War on Terror in a couple of hundred pages - except to suggest that the war will never end if we let the radicals on both sides dictate everything - but these stories will definitely leave you thinking, gasping and chuckling!

If you'd like to view the script for this outrageous, culture-clashing ensemble piece, which has a diverse range of characters and could attract a celebrated international cast, I look forward to sending the PDFs to your attention.

Part 1: A Fine Day for a Beheading (92 pages)

When the CIA intercepts a terrorist video of a radio-controlled model airplane, the CIA sends their top experts, a beautiful strategist and her clandestine lover, an Arab-American analyst, to Riyadh in an effort to head off a plot to override the autopilots on civilian aircraft, unaware that the target is something with far graver international repercussions.

Part 2: Intifada Joe and the Woo-Woos (92 pages)

The CIA’s Assistant Deputy Director and her clandestine lover, a senior CIA analyst, try to stop a plot by terrorists to steal an Ebola
sample from an outbreak zone, unaware that a halfwit radical and his two sidekicks, who’ve been dumped by the terror group, have come into sole possession of the deadly specimen

The two features have also been formatted into a Pilot+Three Episodes for an ongoing series! Loglines and synopses available upon request.

Producers: Please contact the author for the PDFs, or preview at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XK6X2QM

Submitted: February 24, 2017
Last Updated: June 17, 2020

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The Writer: Steve Garry
I wrote my first screenplay in 2008, at the age of 52. It was a surprise, yet predicable too, for composition was my favorite subject in my earliest years of elementary school. But somewhere between the ages of 10 and 52, 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, suspenseful, or humorous, often in the same script, with captivating characters and story lines, especially given the complex themes I often take on in my work. From satire to... Go to bio
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