script details

  • TITLE:  Sid's Apple
  • GENRE:  Zombie Horror | Drama
  • PROTECTION:  WGA; West registered
  • NUMBER | SCREENWRITING BEGINNINGS:  Sid's Apple is my very first feature spec script.
  • LENGTH:  Feature length
  • PAGE COUNT:  One hundred twenty-six (126) pages
  • DRAFTS: Four (4) drafts completed
  • PROBABLE MPA RATING:  Rated R
  • ADT'L DEVELOPMENT:  The piece is being restructured / developed into an 8-episode, limited series format.
    MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS:  The 2004 album from Tears for Fears (Everybody Loves a Happy Ending) served as background music for the script's creation.
  • PROPOSED TAGLINE:  "Undead... with things still left undone."
  • INSPIRATION:  Following a vivid zombie dream (which randomly involved Helen Hunt), the script's central idea was born.  This dream scenario (minus Helen Hunt) remains in the completed script. 
  • LOGLINE:  Sid has returned from the dead, only to face a whole new way of "living" -- dealing with his past, friends and family, while simultaneously making sense of the events unfolding around him, including a growing awareness of his appetite for living flesh.
  • HEY, SHANNON!  In what has become a tradition in many of my scripts (starting right here), ​​I have a character named "Shannon" within the story.  In Sid's Apple, "Shannon" is Sid's pushy apartment neighbor.
  • TABLE READ:  A 1st reading was held in early 2006.  The Cast: Kirk Gillman, Jennifer Grace, Lorri Hamm, Michael Klug, Eric Roach, Penny Slusher, Jason Wilson.
  • TRIGGER WARNINGS:  Graphic violence