KEITH VARNEY
creator of nonsense.
SCREENPLAYS
UNSOLICITED
HORROR/SUSPENSE
ROMANTIC COMEDY
Screenplay: Keith Varney
UNPRODUCED
Finally fed up with rejection, a timid college professor quits his job and starts cleaning toilets at a prestigious regional theater in order to trick them into reading his masterpiece. But when his play is miraculously fast-tracked to Broadway, will a Tony-obsessed producer, a fire-breathing director and ‘The Rock’ crush his dreams?
THE DEAD CIRCLE
THE DEAD CIRCLE
HORROR/SUSPENSE
Screenplay by Keith Varney
UNPRODUCED
Trapped and alone in downtown Detroit, a resourceful husband and wife try to build themselves a safe haven when a parasite turns anyone who comes in contact with water into blind zombie-like creatures.
Adapted from Book 1 of The Dead Circle trilogy.
STAR TREK: RESTORATION
SCIENCE FICTION
Screenplay by Keith Varney
UNPRODUCED SPEC
Earth has been destroyed and occupied by the Borg for more than fifteen years. Jean Luc Picard leads an aging rag-tag band of survivors from The Enterprise, The Defiant, and Voyager back in time to save the quadrant and restore the Federation’s honor.
*written entirely on spec. No ownership of copyrighted material is intended or implied.
KODIAK
HORROR/SUSPENSE
Screenplay by Keith Varney
UNPRODUCED SPEC
A giant bear attacks an isolated family on the remote Kodiak island.
PILOTS/SPEC EPISODES
I GOT FIRED
1/2 HR SINGLE CAMERA WORKPLACE SITCOM
Teleplay, Music & Lyrics: Keith Varney
UNPRODUCED
After aspiring writer Keith gets fired from his soul-crushing office job, he uses musical numbers & mostly-reliable narration to tell the true-ish story of the hilarious & brutal betrayal that led to his firing. And possibly gets revenge...
It’s “How I Met Your Mother” meets “The Office” with curse words and musical numbers.
LAW & ORDER: SVU
UNPRODUCED SPEC
When a secret room of horrors is discovered in an abandoned church, the SVU team must investigate a series of murders taking place over eighty years and involving five generations of a family.
*written entirely on spec. No ownership of copyrighted material is intended or implied.
