Thorncrown Studios

Category: Feature Film Screenplays

  • Beyond Nightfall

    A Post‑Apocalyptic Thriller by Coleman Luck III When the world ended, it didn’t happen with a single blast or a single battle. It happened in layers, slow, strange, and merciless. Beyond Nightfall opens in the final hours before everything collapses, then plunges into a transformed America where the familiar has been burned away and the…

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  • VOWS

    Screenplay By Coleman Luck & Carel Gage Luck Based on the novel “A Vow To Cherish” by Deborah Raney What do marriage vows really mean when life brings unimaginable change? Vows is a deeply heartfelt and inspiring drama that follows the journey of John and Ellen Brighton, two people whose love story begins with joy,…

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  • North of Hope

    NORTH OF HOPEA Screenplay by Coleman Luck & Carel Gage LuckGenre: Supernatural Drama / Mystery / Spiritual Thriller It began in 1890, with a priest who walked into a blizzard to keep a promise. Father Zell’s death on a frozen lake became a local legend, witnessed by Ojibwa hunters, remembered for the mysterious light that…

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  • WEBS

    WEBS is a mind-bending, genre-defying sci-fi horror thriller that begins in the gritty underground tunnels of Chicago and descends—literally and metaphorically—into a nightmare of greed, corruption, and monstrous revelation. What starts as a quirky blue-collar caper about three down-on-their-luck salvage workers searching for junk beneath the city transforms into a cosmic trap, where time, space,…

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  • Escape From L.A: The Legendary Coleman Luck Version

    Escape from L.A. An Original Screenplay by Coleman Luck – December 7th, 1987Based on characters from Escape from New York by John Carpenter Before the 1996 cult sequel, there was this: a darkly satirical, apocalyptic prequel written in 1987 by Coleman Luck (The Equalizer, Gabriel’s Fire). Hired personally by John Carpenter while Coleman was writing…

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  • hitter

    Jude Karsen isn’t just a contract killer, he’s a ghost who’s made a career out of never leaving a trace. With over 140 kills to his name and no law enforcement agency ever suspecting him, Karsen’s confession should be the most explosive in FBI history. But there’s a problem: no evidence, no accomplices, no bodies,…

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  • The Foxbat Strategy – One of the Most Unusual Scripts That You Will Read

    What if the greatest military strategist in history was a little man living in a New York warehouse? But no one knew he existed…until a game began. 1980. In the shadows of the Cold War, the Pentagon’s most decorated general is about to discover the greatest strategic mind he’s never heard of, a forgotten man…

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  • Magnificent!

    Magnificent! is a bold action-adventure that fuses gritty realism with unexpected humor. When a Philippine village is decimated by extremists, and a young American missionary escapes with her life, leaving her husband behind, her grandfather, a widowed, war-scarred former Green Beret and missionary, receives a call he can’t ignore. Long retired and half-forgotten in a…

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  • Ring of Shadows

    They are coming out of the shadows of myth and legend. Long-forgotten Darkness is rising from the halls of the dead. Forbidden gods. Bringers of terror. Lords of Doom that foretell of humanity’s end.   But as they rise, a strange and powerful call goes out. To oppose them will come the called and the…

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  • The Singing Place

    It is almost Christmas and two brokenhearted men are about to meet. For years, Jorge Mendoza has been working hard at Children’s Hospital, cleaning restrooms, making beds, doing the things that others do not want to do…and all to bring his wife and little daughter to America.  Through those years, Jorge has brought joy to…

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  • At the Back of the North Wind

    I’d like to share a story with you that I have loved for many years.  I wish I could share it as a film, but I can’t.  It is a feature script that I wrote a long time ago, the first professionally written script of my career completed when I was a grad student in…

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