Creative Purpose is developing a growing slate of original films across genres, audiences, and budget levels through our collaborative writers’ room model.
Family Adventure Comedy
Groundhog Day meets Booksmart
A malcontent senior excited to finally finish high school becomes trapped reliving the last day of high school on a loop, and must figure out how to make the best of the worst day of his life.
Producer attached
Credits include Dual, Operation Avalanche, Over My Dead Body, and The Girlfriend, with a first-look deal at XYZ Films.
Drama Thriller
Conclave at the Supreme Court
When a deadlocked presidential election reaches the Supreme Court, an ambitious young clerk is caught between the Chief Justice she idolizes and the controversial justice she now serves—and must make a choice that could protect the institution or shatter it.
Producer attached
Credits include The Big Short, Up in the Air, Blade Runner 2049, and Flight.
Family Adventure Comedy
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids meets 127 Hours
When an ultra-outdoorsy survivalist dad falls into a hole during a remote family camping trip, his only hope of rescue is his ultra-indoorsy children, who have never done anything without their phones.
Producer attached
Credits include Faith of Angels and Brotherhood: A Cinematic Musical.
Sci Fi Thriller
The Fugitive meets Black Mirror
In a gig-economy future where people rent out their bodies through neural-link technology, a man addicted to escaping his own skin wakes to discover his real body has been used to commit murder.
Producer attached
Credits include the Resident Evil, Death Race, and The Ring franchises.
Family Adventure Comedy
Vacation meets Little Miss Sunshine
After the death of their family matriarch, the eldest son fears his relatives are drifting apart and reunites them to compete on the family game show they appeared on decades earlier.
Producer attached
Credits include Dual, Operation Avalanche, Over My Dead Body, and The Girlfriend, with a first-look deal at XYZ Films.
Animation
Coco meets Coraline
After losing her twin brother in a tragic accident, a grieving teen discovers a lighthouse that opens a portal to the afterlife, giving her hope of seeing him again—until dark spirits begin emerging.
Writing team
Writers from Netflix, Pixar, and Nickelodeon.
Sci Fi Adventure
Dune meets Snowpiercer with werewolves
In a future where werewolves are enslaved on the Moon, a young wolf girl escapes to Earth and must choose between becoming human for good or leading a rebellion...
Director attached
Credits include work with Eminem, The Weeknd, Lil Wayne, Alicia Keys, and other major artists.
Psychological Thriller
Lurker meets The Game
An up-and-coming musician unknowingly signs on to a reality docuseries that turns his rise to fame into a psychological test of what success will cost him.
Director attached
Credits include work with Beyoncé, Adele, Kanye West, Lana Del Rey, and Arctic Monkeys.
Sci Fi Thriller
Dark Matter meets Source Code
A brilliant but controlling physicist must shut down his time machine after the woman he loves steals it, triggering its activation and unleashing a black hole that distorts time and rapidly grows.
Director attached
Credits include work with Eminem, The Weeknd, Lil Wayne, Alicia Keys, and other major artists.
Contained Wilderness Thriller
Reservoir Dogs meets The Ritual
When a crew of criminals captures their boss’s pregnant mistress after she runs away, a forced landing strands them at a remote fishing lodge where a series of gruesome deaths turns them against one another.
Director attached
Credits include Mending the Line and Infamous.
Political Thriller
Judas and the Black Messiah meets Homeland
A loyal FBI agent uncovers government secrets about her parents, who were branded domestic terrorists, forcing her to question everything she has sworn to protect.
Seeking producing partner
Has a Black List writer and a Nicholl Fellow writer.
Supernatural Thriller
The Sixth Sense meets Prisoners
When a detective’s daughter insists her nightmares about a girl’s past-life murder are real, evidence that the girl existed—and may now be missing—pushes them to uncover the truth.
Seeking producing partner
Has 2 Black List writers and a Screencraft Screenplay Competition winner.
Political Thriller
Inglourious Basterds meets Civil War
In the near future, as an evangelical, theocratic America expels non-believers and prepares a crusade to take Jerusalem, the paths of a disillusioned American priest and rival Middle Eastern spies converge to stop a holy war.
Producer attached
Horror Thriller
Stranger Things meets Dark Waters, set inside a powerful political dynasty
When the matriarch of a powerful water empire pushes her husband to run for president, haunting visions lead their twin daughters toward the same deadly environmental secrets that got their sisters murdered.
Writing team
Black List and Nicholl recognized writers.
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