The Desert Eagle
Logline: After traveling lightyears to reach a mystical desert planet, a wormhole physicist enlists a dangerous gunslinger to help her find her mother.
Comps: Arrival, Contact, The Fifth Element
Genre: Sci-Fi-Western, Action, Comedy-Drama
Vail Screenplay Contest 2024 Quarter-Finalist
“A blockbuster-sized science-fiction epic that is influenced by films like DUNE, STAR WARS, and THE HUNGER GAMES, introducing a barren world that houses a collection of people, culture, and wildlife from different time periods. While the desert-planet is not the most original of settings, having gun-toting cowgirls clash with medieval French knights while protecting Islamic nomads has incredible potential and shows the writer’s creativity... Original sci-fi films do struggle with finding box office success, but this script could reveal the writer’s strengths and imagination in crafting a massive blockbuster.”
“The [sci-fi] conventions are really well done and the tone is unique in the way that it’s kind of tongue in cheek, and the humor threaded throughout gives this film a point of difference.”
