Mike Kalvoda

Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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October 2021

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About Mike

Mike writes genre-redefining horror/thrillers with damage-heal dynamics.

Co-writer on a psychological nail biter with Oscar-nominee Daniel (All Quiet On The Western Front) Dreifuss to produce.Graphic novel credits include The Piper (acquired by Mandalay Vision), New Line’s spin-off of Final Destination, and the prequel to Se7en (providing the “voice” of John Doe in the notebook narrative). Of his debut novel, Banshee, producer Marianne (Scream) Maddalena tapped him as “a talent to watch.” Esquire dubbed Mike “a master storyteller” for his unreleased anthology, Dreams After Midnight.

Unique traits: LGBT+ Can cry on cue

Gender:
Male

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GENUINE Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Drama A charming young sociopath -- the product of a professor/student affair -- seeks out and infiltrates his unsuspecting birth father's family. ***ACADEMY NICHOLL SEMIFINALIST**
BREAKTHROUGH Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror On the eve of his 32nd birthday, with his company racing towards a cure for Parkinson's, a pharmaceutical exec experiences phantom seizures that plague him every eight years. He unravels and must save his family from the terrifying truth : at large are inhuman dopplegangers of himself, harvested for experimentation -- and deadly. COMPS: COMA, THE BROOD (Note: This is a non-linear, interwearving narrative -- as if Robert Altman directed a David Cronenberg film.)
CLAUSTROPHOBIA Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror Trapped in a bunker beneath the raging sandstorms of the Great Outback, a newlywed bride battles a de-evolving alien and her own claustrophobia to save the lives of those around her -- including her dying husband.
PHASE 0 Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror A mother desperate to pay for her son's healthcare participates in a clinical research trial that has horrifying consequences that turn her reality on its head. (PITCH DECK AVAILABLE)
INNER CHILD Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror After a childhood prank goes wrong, a young teen awakens from an 8-year catatonic state – still maintaining an imaginary friend – and those who bullied him meet terrible ends. (PITCH DECK AVAILABLE)
SINCERELY HELD BELIEFS Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror An idyllic marriage retreat turns terrifying when unsuspecting couples discover their charismatic hosts are Christian extremists recruiting for a modern-day Crusade.(PITCH DECK AVAILABLE)
LOVE, MOM Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller ⋄ Horror A plucky, puritanical abuse survivor moves to small-town West Virginia to start a new life for her family... until her closely-guarded young daughter and son unravel the terrifying truth about her. (PITCH DECK AVAILABLE)

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Credits

Se7en (TPB prequel)
Series by New Line Cinema Writer New Line Cinema's graphic novel prequel to SE7EN. Writer of SLOTH and WRATH issues, as well as the "voice" of John Doe in the series notebook narrative.
Final Destination: Spring Break
Series by New Line Cinema Writer New Line Cinema brings Death to comics! A group of college friends head to Cancun, Mexico for spring break, but their partying is quickly cut short when a hotel fire and subsequent explosion kills hundreds of people. Only a terrifying premonition by Carly, one of the girls in the group, saves the lives of her and her friends. Shaken but unharmed, the group decides to stay in Mexico and make the best of their trip, but Carly knows deep down that grave danger lingers on the horizon and soon realizes that when you cheat death, it always comes back to collect! Collecting all five issues of the Final Destination: Spring Break comic book mini-series, complete with a bonus issue ("Sacrifice") and a gorgeous cover gallery by artist Dimitri Patelis.