Loglines & Screenplays by Craige Cronin

GENRES: Other, Family, Comedy

A Sexy Comedy. An old man thinks he is teaching his grandson how to be a real 
man but instead learns how to become a real woman. (Also a produced play.)

GENRES: Thriller

The Head of a secret Western intelligence agency is forced to undergo a deadly test of allegiance...but things are not as they seem. (Screenplay, Novel and Play).

GENRES: Thriller, Comedy

Failing business exec hits bottom, then is guided by a friend into a  walking club that has a killer of a program. (Screenplay and Novel)

GENRES: Comedy

 Loser gets eaten alive to prove he's a real man and win the girl.

GENRES: Thriller

A telemarketer uses information from phone surveys to choose single women he can rape and murder. Detective Max Steele, two months from retirement, is assigned to what he sees as a hopeless case. (Screenplay plus Novel).

GENRES: Romance, Comedy

To her horror a researcher on a poor-taste talk show learns through an unknown stalker that her upper-crust family is as scandal-riddled as the guests on her show. 

GENRES: War, Drama

Dramedy. Errol Flynn's son, Sean, disappears in the Cambodian jungle when
investigating Nixon's illegal bombing of Cambodia. (Screenplay, Play, Novella).

GENRES: Western, Comedy

Three friends execute the biggest bank robbery in Australian History. Based on the true story of the 1932 robbery in the outback town of Cloncurry. (5 Part Series plus Novel).

GENRES: Western, Drama

1914. A family of hard horsemen - a champion pugilist who gave up his dreams – a woman no longer faithful – a vengeance turning bloody. (Screenplay plus Novel).

GENRES: Western, Mystery

A bank robber makes a desperate bid for freedom, hides out on a ranch, but finds himself championing a poor senorita whose cattle are being mutilated through supernatural means... or so it seems. (Screenplay and Novella).

GENRES: Drama

A middle-aged American man receives a postcard from a young, would-be internet bride in Moldova. She claims she has been pressed into white slavery in Serbia. With few resources and little to go on, he decides to rescue her.

GENRES: War, Drama

Dramedy. A frumpy, taken-for-granted Irish housewife leaves her ungrateful family and
bravely goes off to stop a war. (Screenplay and novel).

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

A former adult movie star gives her empty life meaning by making the dreams of
others come true, but as a forbidden love reveals, dreams can also be nightmares.

GENRES: Romance, Drama

A (male) US President falls in love with a (female) Australian Prime Minister as war with North Korea looms.

GENRES: Horror

A line of Priests, descendants from a cult surrounding the medieval and murderous Countess Bathory, are hunted down by the churches they infect.

GENRES: Historical, Drama

1960’s Baltimore single mother, Madalyn Murray, takes the school prayer issue all the way to the Supreme Court and wins.

GENRES: Sci-fi

Rewrite of the 1956 classic, “Forbidden Planet” from which “Star Wars”, “Star Trek” and “Lost In Space” evolved. A crack squad of male and female troops is beamed from Earth to find out what happened to the marooned colonists on Altair-4. They find a single surviving scientist and his daughter. They also find a hideous monster that roams the planet and to which there is no defense.

GENRES: Historical, Drama

The life of the world’s first superstar, Edmund Kean, his rise to fame and tumultuous life, is juxtaposed with the modern superstar, Nick Lathuro, who will play him in the biographical film.

GENRES: Adventure

Not long after WWII, a young man and his wife travel to New Guinea on a pilgrimage to recover the bones of his much loved father, shot down by the Japanese. They unwittingly travel to a taboo valley where a monster from hell awaits them. (Screenplay and Novel).

GENRES: Adventure

Sequel to "Ramu". A young paleontologist discovers a story in an old science fiction magazine. It leads her to a series of tantalizing clues indicating the article might actually be true. Risking her career she sets off for the wilds of New Guinea to find out for herself where the truth lies. Along the way she meets the man of her dreams, but also comes face to face with a prehistoric creature from her darkest nightmares. (Screenplay and Novel).

GENRES: Sci-fi, Adventure

Although the huge, blue babonites, the monstrous sabre-tooth loigers, and the giant killer-hogs are terrifying, the true danger in resurrecting a century old ‘reality’ concept is the treachery lurking in a human mind, that mind being Ethan's, the darling of the home viewers. (Screenplay and Novel)

GENRES: Historical, Drama

1810. A French naval officer and a young female passenger en route to Senegal find love during the horrific ‘Medusa’ shipwreck tragedy. (3 part Series plus Novel).

GENRES: Drama, Comedy

Dramedy. A charismatic Tahitian sailor anchors his old ketch off Lord Howe Island where a science conference is underway. Inspired, this amusing radical formulates a plan for a new democracy and a way to convert to it. He believes we can outlaw fossil fuels, stop global warming, and bring lasting peace to humanity (which he playfully dubs ‘huchimps). Eventually he installs and heads the new democracy in New Zealand. But as climate change intensifies and global war threatens, events reach critical mass when he and the American President are apparently assassinated. (8 part Series plus Novel).