Loglines & Screenplays by Lyndon McGill

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense, Mystery

A female reporter deciphers a cryptic poem written by a death-row inmate as his final words and embarks on a quest to find the $30 million in cash and fine jewelry he stole and squirreled away prior to being captured. However, several others, including the prison warden, realize the reporter has solved the riddle and do everything in their power--including kill--to get to the loot first.     

GENRES: Comedy, Drama

A retired and disabled Oscar-winning actor is dumped off at a Hollywood assisted living facility by his daughter and experiences the gamut of social, economic, and physical challenges common to many senior citizens trying to adapt to life in an institution. And, to complicate this parody on aging, someone is killing off the residents one by one. ("Clue" in a nursing home.)

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense, Drama

A Harvard-bound African-American high school student and basketball standout has to pack up his mother and younger brother and flee from Chicago to a small town in Iowa to escape the violence of an abusive step-father who is also a dirty cop ("Finding Forrester" meets "Sleeping With The Enemy"). 

GENRES: Drama, Western

The true story of deputy U.S. marshal John Bethlehem McGill's (David vs Goliath) effort to derail an illegal whiskey operation in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma in 1896. John's effort jeopardizes his entire family and thrusts them into the lives of the legendary "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker, the notorious outlaw Cherokee Bill, the infamous madam Pearl Starr (Belle's daughter), and the Mother of Prohibition, Carrie Nation.

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense, Drama

Blaming a U.S. senator for his son's death in the Middle East, a billionaire kidnaps the politician's daughter out of revenge and imprisons her in a secret bunker not realizing that he is in for the surprise of his life.

GENRES: Animation, Drama

Struggling with his identity and an abusive father while growing up in Hollywood in the 1950s, a 10-year-old boy is comforted and rescued from his predicament by a beautiful doll he stumbles upon in an antique store (inspired by a true story).

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense, Horror

A rookie L.A.P.D. homicide detective finds herself in over her head trying to track down a serial killer who is collecting the heads of victims yet discarding the bodies where they will be easily discovered. Not only is the killer committing murder, they are also redefining the bioethics of medical science in the process.

GENRES: Science Fiction, Adventure

They say that hindsight is 20/20. But what if you suddenly had 20/20 foresight? A young college student inherits a vintage optician’s lens kit from his eccentric great uncle and discovers that he can use the lenses to see into the past as well as the future. For him, hindsight and foresight are now 20/20 thus allowing him to solve mysteries from the past as well as alter the course of the future. 

GENRES: Thriller / Suspense, Drama

Two U.S. senators work across the aisle to achieve more than their political ambitions.

GENRES: Action, Adventure

With his adolescent son dying of cancer, a desperate father travels to the jungles of Peru and battles drug smugglers and the Devil himself to bring back a powerful medicine found only in a fruit growing on El Arbol de la Vida, The Tree of Life. (Think: a faith-based "Indiana Jones")