Destroyers

Feature · Action · 95 pages
Status: Spec
Unfairly forced out of legal competition, an elite sportswoman enters a lucrative but deadly new subculture, a quest to help her family that threatens to consume her life and relationships
Written by John Mahony
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Accolade
6 Accolades
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Coverfly Top 1% in Genre/Format
Semifinalist, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship 2017

1 Writer

South West Rocks, New South Wales, AU
John is a twice-optioned contest-winner doing original takes on highly commercial genres, often with social/political subtext. More info is on IMDb.

Additional Project Info

Destroyers (previously titled 'Blacktop') has been optioned twice, as an Australian film and then an Australian-French film, until I walked away from the latter deal recently. It has been rewritten to be set in California and Nevada, among other improvements, and I now seek US representation and producers for the project. The script won Best Action/Adventure in the Final Draft Big Break Contest and made top-2% of the Nicholl Fellowship. There is also a potentially more mainstream version of the script that can be provided on request. The script continues to evolve with rewrites. The project concept is a female-led action movie that provides the thrills of the genre for a young mainstream audience, while also providing complex characters and subtext on rising inequality and climate change. Comps: Emily the Criminal. Two Lane Blacktop. The Fast and the Furious (at a fraction of the budget)