Speculative and unauthorized samples using existing IP and real people. Not for sale.
Six scripts written on nobody’s assignment — someone else’s IP, someone else’s living room, someone else’s rules about what’s allowed. Nothing here is for option. This is what happens when I write into a world I don’t own, to prove I can leave it standing.
LOSING MY EDGE is still being drafted, and is on the DRAFTING shelf of Work as well.
Decades after mastering matchmaking, Cher Horowitz must save her former teacher’s Senate campaign while her perfectionist daughter repeats Cher’s worst mistake: sacrificing the boy she loves to a more impressive future.
Murdered black-ops assassin Al Simmons returns as Spawn and hunts the government conspirators who killed him, but when revenge puts his widow’s new family in the crossfire, he must choose between the weapon Hell made and the man he still wants to be.
After sparing his killer, Spawn becomes the target of Heaven’s correction program and a holy weapon called the Redeemer; when both Heaven and Hell turn Rat City into a battlefield, he must break the cycle of control without claiming the throne that could end it.
When Heaven and Hell reveal themselves as wounded children fighting over creation, Spawn gains the power to rewrite reality — but saving everyone would require owning them, forcing him to choose imperfect freedom over divine order.
When Glen Powell comes to his Missouri hometown to shoot a movie and starts dating the woman he has loved since high school, a stalled factory worker and failed screenwriter launches one last pathetic campaign to win her — only to discover the movie he needs to rewrite is his own life.
Before LCD Soundsystem became the coolest band in the room, James Murphy spent years convinced the room had already moved on without him.
New York, 1999–2002. DFA, aging, envy, taste, failure, the Strokes, the Moldy Peaches, Interpol, Karen O, the Rapture, Radio 4, 9/11, and the long runway toward “Losing My Edge.”
This is an unauthorized dramatic writing sample involving real people. No authorization, participation, endorsement, music rights, life rights or attachment by James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, DFA Records or related parties is implied.