Rudi O'Meara

Founder at Sequitur
Screenwriter

San Rafael, California

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November 2021

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About Rudi

Rudi O’Meara is a Black List Recommended action/adventure screenwriter based in Marin County, California. His WWII feature The 10th is currently in development with Producer Tai Duncan attached. And his work has been recognized by Script Pipeline, Austin Film Festival, Roadmap Writers, PAGE, Shore Scripts, ISA, and Final Draft (among others). He has been featured on The Stunt List, The Dead List, The Grey List, The Originals Bureau, and Six Shooter Screenplays. And his scripts have been official selections for The Stowe Narrative Lab, The WritersXWriters Fellowship, The Black List Annual Lab Long List, and The Horrorigins Film Festival. Rudi's work tends to focus on misfits and outsiders struggling to redefine themselves (and their tribe) in order to survive. And he sees genre as a tool for exploring taboo subjects in unexpected and arresting ways.

Gender:
Male

Height:
6' 2"

Weight:
200

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Chin Length

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Brown

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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Loglines

The Untimely Demise of that Awful David Schwartzman Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Comedy After the murder of their legendarily toxic boss—famed indie film producer David Schwartzman—two young, cinema-obsessed assistants find themselves caught in a tangled web of lies, criminality, and high-stakes Hollywood intrigue.
Merit Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Adventure A charming (if unlucky) band of low-level drug dealers pose as Boy Scout troop leaders to steal a shipment of cocaine from a Mexican drug cartel and smuggle it into 1970s Aspen, Colorado. Think: “Drugstore Cowboy” meets “The Bad News Bears”
Message the Shooter Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Comedy A hot-tempered FBI hostage negotiator gets tapped to take down an elite assassin on a killing spree targeting the world’s worst CEOs. Turns out, the shooter is actually her estranged father.
Rejuvenation Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror After discovering her husband is cheating on her with his Gen-Z admin, a middle-aged woman follows her BFF to a remote spa promising a genetically rejuvenated self. Soon though, their 'treatment' takes a twisted, gruesome, and potentially deadly turn.
Home Budget: $5M - $10M | Animation ⋄ Adventure After the world’s elite have fled for Mars, a reclusive tech titan volunteers to stay behind to reverse the ravages of climate change. But first, he and his menagerie of household robots must join forces with a dubious survivor to take down a malevolent AI intent on preventing humanity’s return.
Midnight at the Caravelle Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller An idealistic young intelligence officer finds himself slipping into a double life of espionage and crime after being tasked with infiltrating and taking down a smuggling ring in 1970 Saigon.
The Unanticipated Emancipation of Zebulon Pierce Budget: $10M - $30M | Western A young runaway searching for his father in the wilds of 1890s Colorado finds himself drawn to a life of crime after falling in with an oddball band of misfit bandits with exceptional diction and unimpeachable style.
The Escapist Budget: $30M+ | War ⋄ Drama In a bid to survive WWII without firing a shot, a naive, young, jazz-obsessed musician joins the Musikkorps Leibstandarte-SS (Hitler’s elite personal orchestra) and soon finds himself thrust into some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The 10th Budget: $10M - $30M | War In a daring attempt to break through Hitler's Gothic Line in Italy, a battle-scarred American mountaineer and a turncoat German ski soldier reluctantly join forces to lead one of the most spectacular raids in all of military history. Inspired by true events.
Independence Pass Budget: $5M - $10M | Adventure A ragtag pack of kids head up into the mountains above Aspen, Colorado in June 1977 searching for a long-lost silver artifact—and find themselves caught up in the manhunt for escaped serial killer, Ted Bundy. Based on actual events.
Don't Go There Budget: $5M - $10M | Horror Two female co-founders of a super hot tech start-up take a rival CEO up on his offer of some post-IPO R&R on his private island in the South Pacific. Turns out, all is not as it seems on the island—a former French nuclear test site.
Broken Stones Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Drama Three generations of thieves—one retired, one reformed, and one recently released from prison—travel to East Berlin in the aftermath of the collapse of the Berlin Wall to steal a painting and uncut diamonds seized from their family during WWII.
Divided We Fall Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller ⋄ Sci-fi A feuding pair of gay empty nesters on the verge of divorce find themselves embroiled in what might be a Silicon Valley alien invasion.
Omnilinqual Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi Recruited to decipher the language of an ancient civilization recently discovered on Mars, an archaeologist and her ex-husband find themselves in a desperate race to expose a shocking truth about humanity’s place in the universe.
Amends Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Comedy While in rehab, a washed-up 90s sitcom star finds out he’s dying of cancer and—together with his agent—decides to break out and mend fences with everyone he’s ever wronged (to varying degrees of failure).
Hereafter Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Horror After the tragic loss of the love of her life, an emotionally traumatized E.R. nurse finds herself drawn to a mysterious institute promising a way to reconvene with the dead. Soon, grief, obsession, and reality blur. And her fight for the truth spirals into a waking nightmare.
Turn, Turn, Turn Budget: $30M+ | Adventure A middle-aged couple on the verge of divorce discover a mysterious pocket watch inside the attic of their Haight-Ashbury Victorian and (together with their hippy-dippy parents) wind up tumbling backward in time to the Summer of Love and beyond.
The Reset Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Sci-fi After failing to stop a presidential assassination, a brooding Secret Service agent finds himself trapped in a looping memory simulation designed to ensure the success of the next attack. The only way to break the cycle: team with his seeming adversary to save his partner from becoming the next test subject.
Constellation Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy An international team of D-list celebrities sign on to compete in the world’s first space-based reality TV game show—only to find themselves accidentally embroiled in a burgeoning hot war between the world’s new superpowers.
Escape Velocity Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama After the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, a bookish teen and his foulmouthed new stepsister join his estranged father on a high-stakes road trip to stop a Soviet spy intent on sabotaging the US Space Program. Inspired by true events.

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Awards

Finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Drama Competition
(2024)
Finalist, Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards Season 9
(2024)
Finalist, Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards Season 9
(2024)
Top 50 Finalist, ISA Fast Track Fellowship
(2024)
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2024
(2024)
Winner, WritersXWriters Screenplay Competition
(2023)
Winner, Filmmatic Fifth Annual Pitch Now Screenplay Competition
(2023)
Runner-Up, Script Pipeline Pitch Competition
(2023)
Finalist, ScreenCraft Horror Competition
(2023)
Finalist, Vail Film Festival Screenplay Competition
(2023)
Top 25 Feature Finalist, Roadmap Writers Jumpstart Competition
(2023)
Finalist, Outstanding Screenplays Pilot Competition
(2023)
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2023
(2023)
Second Rounder, Launch Pad Pilot Competition
(2023)
Second Rounder, Launch Pad Feature Competition 10th Annual
(2023)
Finalist, Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition
(2022)
Semi-Finalist, Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, Stage 32 - Television Drama Writing Contest
(2022)
Top 15%, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship
(2022)
Second Rounder, Launch Pad Feature Competition 9th Annual
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Feature Competition
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
(2022)
Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition
(2022)
Top 20%, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship
(2021)