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Screenplays
The work below spans nearly two decades of writing across features, pilots, and short films — war dramas informed by military service, genre fiction with historical roots, and comedy built around real places and real communities. False Flag earned an 8/10 on The Black List. Gentrifried won the Cinequest Teleplay 30 competition. Sol won four competitions in a single season.
Feature Screenplays
False Flag
A single father mourns the loss of his son in the aftermath of a mass shooting when conspiracy theorists converge on his small town demanding proof the tragedy occurred.
Rise
A disgraced Special Forces Captain and his misfit squad are transported back in time to 1864 Virginia — where they must keep their technology and knowledge of history out of the hands of both armies.
Alive Day
A 42-year-old soon-to-be divorcee fails at life and suicide, so he joins the Army at the height of the Iraq War Surge — hoping an insurgent will do the favor for him.
The Last Patriarch
A philanderer lives the carefree life until his father informs him he is the last in their family line — and what seemed like freedom becomes a choice he can no longer avoid.
Sol
In the year 2242, citizen and soldier alike are plunged into the depths of a dark and violent interplanetary civil war on a scale unprecedented in human history.
A series created by James Fox.
Rise
A disgraced Special Forces Officer and his diverse squad of misfit soldiers travel back in time to the Civil War, becoming entangled in clandestine efforts to bring down the Confederacy.
Gentrifried
A blended family in San Francisco's Mission District faces gentrification head-on as they fight to keep their Mexican restaurant — and their neighborhood — alive.
Blended
A matriarch struggles to raise a family and build her therapy practice while her stay-at-home ex-husband chases a new business venture — and her fiancé cheers him on.
Tisoy
A Filipino NYC chef finds himself marooned in the rural Midwest, caring for his wife's ailing mother — unemployable, adrift, and unable to fit in.
Abandoned
Two American soldiers abandoned by their convoy in Baghdad find shelter in a seemingly empty home — only to discover it's occupied by a bomb maker.
Damaged
Two soldiers abandoned by their convoy commit a heinous act while hunkered down in Iraq. Now home, they face the consequences of their actions and torturous guilt.
All content copyright Edward Coffey except Sol, copyright James Fox. All rights reserved.
