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Judgement at Siddim



A man reassesses his plan to avenge a violent crime against his family after a stranger crosses his path who is set to mete out his own final brand of justice.


Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller (Rated R)
104-page feature screenplay
4-page synopsis
$36.3 million budget (fully-costed, depending upon casting choices)
© 2012-2021


"Siddim" (where Sodom and Gomorrah were located) has influences as diverse as "Shane" and "The Virgin Spring", but it was actually my response to "Taken" - and just about every other revenge flick before and since.

That's why I wrote some of my stories: As a reaction to what was missing or good about other films. I enjoyed "Taken", but I'm amazed how stupid the bad guys can be in these movies - they hurt somebody's kid or spouse, and that somebody always turns out to be an ex-CIA or ex-Green Beret.

You'd think the villains would do their research first!

So, in my story, Sam Toomes is a nondescript city tax supervisor. He has no secret past as an FBI-operative or war-time demolitions experience in the Gulf War.  He and his family are simply trying to live the middle-class dream - until it is devastated by the reckless act of a drug lord's son.  When the corrupt local police do not act, Sam prepares to wreak justice.

However, he is untrained for such a task, and restrained by his civility.

Then Sam crosses paths with a stranger in town, one with his own interest in and special talents to deal with the gangsters.

As events hurtle toward an apocalyptic yet strangely moral conclusion, should Sam intervene, or stand by? Or should he help the stranger - and lose his soul?

A noirish, sequel- or cable series-spawning, violent anti-violence "revenge flick with a difference".

Production Note: This project is fully costed-out and scheduled (Top Sheet is here; full budget/schedule/finance plan available upon request)


Major Characters/Casting Possibilities:

 Sam Toomes, 35 years:   Joseph Gordon-Levitt
 Bernhard Augustus Sammler, 45:   Javier Bardem
 Rebecca, 35:   Emily Blunt
 Daughter Karen, 17 ( Amiah Miller ) and son Tommy, 7 ( Azriel Dalman )
 Luca Milanovich, 19:   Louis Partridge
 Suzana, 20:   Dylan Conrique
 Stojan Milanovich, 45:   Paul Moniz de Sa

Note:  The hit-man in "Judgement at Siddim" may be considered to be in the vein of John Wick, Alejandro (Sicario), Robert McCall (Equalizer), or Jason Bourne - with one important exception: Sammler remains in the employ of the system - whatever that secretive, enigmatic system is.  This is unlike the others listed who, perhaps to mould them into "dark heroes" from the killers they once were, are now outside of their respective system, or retired from it, or betrayed by it.


Accolades:

Finalist  (International Screenwriting Competition)
Semi-Finalist  (LA Crime and Horror Film Festival)

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