Lee Matthias

THE MacGUFFIN Budget: $10M - $30M As the Soviet Union collapses in the early 1990s, a Hollywood stuntman’s nephew and a Washington reporter uncover a KGB secret hidden in a movie and, pursued by the motliest crew of former KGB agents, take off cross-country to stop the Russian plan before it’s too late. 

THE DARK MAJESTIC Budget: $5M - $10M | Science Fiction ⋄ Thriller / Suspense An ultra-rich businessman running a successful private space program recruits a disaffected former CIA Field Agent to “fake” a UFO crash in order to penetrate an ultra-secret Government UFO program once known as Majestic 12. (CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND meets THE PARALLAX VIEW)

MYSTERY TOWN Budget: $1M - $5M | Science Fiction ⋄ Comedy When a government agent investigates a strange town on the loneliest road in America, he encounters the oddest collection of weirdos and a secret beyond belief, proving that in some places in the Universe, you can go home again. (NORTHERN EXPOSURE meets E.T.)

THE PANDORA PLAGUE - A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. Budget: $30M+ | Period Piece ⋄ Thriller / Suspense In 1902 London, famed American Magician, Harry Houdini enlists Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr. John H. Watson, in a case that rocks the British Empire to its core. (A Sherlock Holmes pastiche in the spirit of THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION)

FORBIDDEN PLANET (Remake Concept) Budget: $10M - $30M | Science Fiction I know: "How dare I?"

STORY STRUCTURE IN FILM - The Multi-Level Model Budget: $100K - $1M | Documentary Intended for adaptation as a one-hour documentary, this treatise gathers all the disparate approaches to screenplay structure extant, analyzes their strengths, weaknesses, and limitations, and puts forth an approach that finally does what none before it could: explain story structure in a simple, easily understood way, across the length and breadth of narrative film. In so doing, it enables writers to analyze their story ideas, plan their development, and write them into efficiently-told, entertaining and satisfying motion pictures.