Stories by @mrtrescothik13
96 stories
The Devils Own (remake)
A remake of the 1997 film A New York police officer uncovers the real identity of his houseguest an IRA terrorist in hiding
Extra Credit
Based on the book by Mike Lupica. While probing the circumstances that drove a young female college student to commit suicide in Washington Square Park, investigative reporter Peter Finley uncovers a highly successful on-campus co-ed prostitution ring.
Star Wars Episode XXXIVE=MC2
What happens when an unproduced script by two infamous writers is drastically rewritten, reshaped, and filmed by a "Murderers' Row" of the best comedy writers in film and television in the last 30 years. Will it be any good? Or will it be another piece of schlock from the Friedberg/Seltzer duo.
Law & Order: Black Out
New York City detectives investigate the death of a homeless woman, only to discover that she was once a wealthy socialite and that her knowledge of the city's elite may have led to her murder. Based on the novel by Jack Gregory, and based on the acclaimed NBC tv-series.
The Intercept
Based on the novel by Dick Wolf.
Law & Order: In Deep
N.Y.P.D. detectives search for the truth behind the brutal double murders of two young stockbrokers who were killed after leaving an exclusive athletic club. Based on the novel by Jack Gregory, and based on the acclaimed NBC tv-series.
Combat!
A film adaptation based on the 1960s television show of the same name.
Warpath
Based on the book by Jeffry Scott Hansen. The City of Detroit is gripped by violence,drugs, racial tensions and a local media bent on fueling the fire. One of its worst neighborhoods, Brightmoor, is on the brink of a riot. A fictional account of a Police Officer's struggle to save his family from a neighborhood turned upside down by blight, poverty and drug dealers. A very compelling story of a community so down trodden President George W. Bush himself asked "Can anything good come out of Brightmoor?"
City of Lies
Based on the book by Peter McCabe. Crime reporter Mike Kincaid faces the biggest challenge in his career as he attempts to help solve a case that takes him from the glitz of one of New York City's most successful magazines to the smart set of New York State's Dutchess County.
The Room
Based on the book by Hubert Selby Jr. Secluded in his remand cell while awaiting trial for a crime, a small-time nameless criminal surrenders himself to sadistic fantasies of hatred and revenge.
Angel Dust Blues
Based on the book by Todd Strasser. Feeling increasingly alienated from his successful and affluent parents, a 17-year-old boy becomes involved in drug dealing.
Guns
Based on the book by Ed McBain. Small-time liquor store robber Colley Donato gets reclassified on his thirteenth job by killing a policeman, and spends twenty-four hours dodging, hiding, conning, improvising, and remembering the locations and stages of his exhilarating acquisition of gun power.
The Charm School
Based on the book by Nelson DeMille. Deep in the heart of Russia, a group of casually dressed young men are learning a different kind of lesson. The undergraduates sprawled around a game board aren't chilling out on campus: the young KGB agents attending the Charm School are brushing up on their American. When a young tourist goes to the aid of a stranger on a dark Russian road, he is astonished to find a fellow American on the run. The man has been missing for over a decade, plucked from the jungles of Vietnam to become an unwilling tutor at the institution. Now his former students are poised to strike at the heart of America.
Dead City
Based on the novel by Joe McKinney. Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star State is reeling from the worst devastation in history. Thousands are dead or dying - but the worst is only beginning. Amid the wreckage, something unimaginable is happening: a deadly virus has broken out, returning the dead to life - with an insatiable hunger for human flesh...Within hours, the plague has spread all over Texas. San Antonio police officer Eddie Hudson finds his city overrun by a voracious army of the living dead. Along with a small group of survivors, Eddie must fight off the savage horde in a race to save his family...There's no place to run. No place to hide. The Zombie horde is growing as the virus runs rampant. Eddie knows he has to find a way to destroy these walking horrors...but he doesn't know the price he will have to pay.
Dracula
Based on the Bram Stoker novel of the same name, this is an alternative take on what could’ve been. A what if scenario, if back in the early 1990s, Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures joined forces and combined their respective film projects into a single film.
Less Than Zero (remake) (2000-present)
Based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis If a remake of the 1987 film had been done in the wake of American Psycho (2000) and The Rules of Attraction (2002) being brought to the big screen.