SYNOPSIS
"THE UNRAVELING"
When a burned-out Big Law litigator becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind the shocking death of a young colleague, his search for answers pulls him into a dangerous web of corporate corruption, political intrigue, and high-stakes legal deception.
Joe Sargenti, a 61-year-old litigator at the elite New York firm King & Ransom, is counting down the final years of a soul-crushing career when the apparent suicide of rising in-house lawyer, Marco Casasanta, stops him cold. Why would a promising attorney at Madison Bank with a thriving career and family take his own life? Convinced something doesn’t add up, Joe turns to his estranged son for help accessing Charlie’s work laptop and uncovers evidence of contact with a whistleblower lawyer.
As Joe digs deeper, what begins as a personal inquiry spirals into a gripping legal mystery, revealing a far-reaching conspiracy involving a powerful Madison Bank executive, shadowy international operatives, and a politically ambitious U.S. Secretary of State. The closer Joe gets to the truth, the more dangerous the stakes become.
In a world where loyalty is currency, and truth is buried beneath layers of power and greed, Joe must decide how far he’s willing to go to uncover what really happened—before the system he helped build destroys him.
ABOUT DAVID
David J. Woll is a lifelong New Yorker who spent decades as a corporate litigator. His legal career gave him a front-row seat to myriad high-stakes battles over power, corruption, greed and misconduct. An accomplished storyteller in the courtroom, he now gets to make up his own facts, which he weaves into character-driven stories bristling with intrigue and suspense.
SCREENPLAYS
VIVIAN
Feature | Biographical Period Drama
When an aspiring singer in 1920s New York City is framed and falsely imprisoned on prostitution charges, she launches a combination escort service and extortion racket to fund the fight to regain custody of her daughter and vows revenge against the men who set her up.
Comps: L.A. Confidential meets Changeling
RENAISSANCE
Feature | Science Fiction Coming of Age
When a teen prodigy aboard a spacecraft transporting settlers to colonize Second Earth deciphers a series of clues revealing that the mission is a fraud, she must overcome near-impossible odds to save her family and the future.
Comps: Hunger Games in space meets the foreboding of Prometheus
POETIC INJUSTICE
Feature | Legal Drama
When an arrogant big firm litigator’s life is sabotaged by unknown enemies, he’s forced to team up with a badass Wall Street-hating cybersecurity wiz (who also happens to be his son’s acerbic girlfriend) in order to solve the mystery before it’s too late.
Comps: Michael Clayton meets Enemy of the State
THE IMPALA’S LAST STAND
Feature | Comedy
Forced to teach a writer’s workshop to raise money for a preposterous cure for his writer’s block, a hapless wannabe mystery novelist attracts the attentions of a lonely homicide detective when his oddball assortment of students starts dropping like flies.
Comps: Adaptation meets Dodgeball
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THE WHISTLEBLOWER
Feature | Legal Thriller
When an idealistic young lawyer discovers that her corporate client is committing a terrible wrong, she is forced to choose between her legal duty to stay silent and her moral duty to expose the truth and incur the wrath of the powers that be.
Comps: Dark Water meets The Pelican Brief
PUPPY LOVE
Feature | RomCom
When a hapless, love-starved orphan gets roped into stealing pit bull puppies from a pet store, he falls in love with the apprentice vet who tracks him down, saves the dogs from a cruel fate and finds the family he’s always wanted.
Comps: Napoleon Dynamite meets 101 Dalmations in Queens, NY.
A JEALOUS MISTRESS
Hour-long comedy for cable
When a shiftless man-child from the 1980s decides to get his act together by going to law school, he ends up becoming a mafia associate, an FBI target and, worst of all, a promising young lawyer at a major Wall Street firm.
RAMONA
Short | Dark Drama
A suicidal detective riddled with guilt finds a small measure of redemption on Christmas Eve when he comes to the aid of an 8-year-old girl whose mother has just been murdered.
FILMS
When an aspiring singer in 1920s New York City is framed and falsely imprisoned on prostitution charges, she launches a combination escort service and extortion racket to fund the fight to regain custody of her daughter and vows revenge against the men who set her up.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
When an affable postal worker gets a new mail route, he becomes trapped in a hellish techno-autocracy which forces him to deliver insidious brainwashing devices to the whole neighborhood – or else.
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