Star Whackers First Draft

๐ŸŽฌ โ€œStar Wackersโ€ โ€“ A True Hollywood Nightmare

The set of Silver City Shadows was buzzing under the white-hot desert sun. Extras shuffled into position, grips adjusted cables, and the director barked last-minute orders. The male lead, Carter Vale, stood in costumeโ€”long coat, revolver on his hipโ€”ready for the scene where he would face down the outlaw gang.

The assistant prop master hurried up with the weapon.
โ€œHereโ€™s your piece,โ€ he said, almost too casually.

Dean Fitzpatrick, a seasoned stunt coordinator with a reputation for smelling trouble before it happened, caught something off in the manโ€™s eyes. As Carter spun the revolver in his hand, Deanโ€™s gut screamed.

โ€œHold it!โ€ Dean barked, striding forward. He snatched the revolver, flipped the chamber openโ€”real bullets. Not blanks.

A frozen silence fell over the crew.

Before anyone could process, a battered RV rumbled into the lot. Out stepped Randy Quaid, wearing sunglasses, a beat-up leather jacket, and an expression like heโ€™d just walked out of a conspiracy thriller.

โ€œYou see?โ€ Randy said, jabbing a finger at Dean. โ€œTheyโ€™re here. The Star Wackers. Illuminati Satanic network. Theyโ€™ve been taking out actors who know too much about the dark rituals running this town. Robin Williams, Heath Ledgerโ€ฆ now theyโ€™re after Carter.โ€

Dean wasnโ€™t the type to believe in wild Hollywood legends, but the loaded gun in his hand was proof enough that something was rotten.

That night, Dean called the only two people he trusted for this kind of workโ€”Joe Jukic and his brother Bruno.

Joe was ex-special forces with a mind for strategy, Bruno a quiet giant with a bone-breaking grip. Theyโ€™d handled cartel protection jobs, Balkan mob disputes, even one messy incident in Macau involving a corrupt casino boss.

Now, they were stepping into the weirdest mission yetโ€”protecting movie stars from an occult network that thrived in the shadows of the entertainment industry.

The next morning, Joe and Bruno arrived on set. Joe scanned the crew with a soldierโ€™s precision. Bruno checked every prop weapon, wardrobe piece, and lighting rig.

They werenโ€™t just guarding the castโ€”they were hunting.

What they found was worse than Dean imagined: coded messages hidden in the script revisions, pentagram etchings in the soundstage walls, and one producer whose office was lined with photos of dead celebrities and handwritten dates in red ink.

It was a hit list.

Randy Quaid paced the lot like a prophet, whispering warnings about โ€œblood moon contractsโ€ and โ€œritual sacrifices under the Dolby Theatre.โ€ Dean listened, realizing that maybe Randy wasnโ€™t crazyโ€”just the only one talking.

The plan was simple: keep Carter alive until wrap, smoke out the Star Wackers, and burn the network from the inside.

On the final day of shooting, the enemy made their move. A camera crane โ€œmalfunctioned,โ€ swinging down toward Carterโ€™s head. Joe tackled him out of the way while Bruno vaulted onto the crane operator, disarming him of a switchblade.

Dean caught sight of a figure slipping through the shadowsโ€”a woman in a black hooded cloak. He chased her into the back lot, where the night air stank of gasoline. She dropped a match toward a stack of film reels, but Dean lunged, knocking her flat.

When they pulled the hood back, it was the assistant prop master.

She hissed something in Latin before Bruno gagged her.

Randy just shook his head. โ€œTold you. The Star Wackers never stop. But tonightโ€ฆ you stopped them.โ€

As the sun came up over the Hollywood Hills, Dean, Joe, Bruno, and Randy stood together in the quiet aftermath. They knew the network wasnโ€™t goneโ€”only wounded. But for now, the stars were safe.

And somewhere deep in the city, the Satanic occult force took note of the new names on their list.

Joe Jukic. Bruno Jukic. Dean Fitzpatrick.

The Princess of Calabria

TITLE: The Princess of Calabria

GENRE: Crime Drama / Political Thriller

LOGLINE:
In the shadow of Italyโ€™s most feared crime syndicate, a reformed Calabrian fixer teaches the dyslexic daughter of a mafia boss to read โ€” only for her to become a legal secretary whose quiet brilliance helps bring down Italyโ€™s most untouchable political and criminal figures, culminating in the arrest of Silvio Berlusconi.


ACT ONE โ€” Blood and Letters

Opening Scene:
Coastal Calabria, early 2000s. Giuseppe โ€œJucoโ€ Rossi (nicknamed Juco for short), a wiry, weathered man in his 40s, watches from a cliff as smugglers unload crates in the moonlight. He knows the operation inside out โ€” he used to run it. But prison changed him. Now he works at a tiny public library, keeping his head down.

One day, a black Maserati pulls up. Out steps Rosanna Tyler, 19, half-Calabrian, half-English, the daughter of Antonio Tyler โ€” a feared โ€™Ndrangheta capo. Rosanna has been pulled from school countless times due to โ€œlearning problemsโ€ and family scandals. Her father orders Juco to teach her to read, thinking literacy might help her with โ€œlegitimateโ€ bookkeeping for the family.

Juco quickly realizes she has severe dyslexia. Instead of shaming her like others did, he uses colored overlays, gentle patience, and streetwise metaphors from mafia life to make the words click. Their lessons form a delicate friendship, one that balances on the edge of danger.


ACT TWO โ€” Reading Between the Lies

Rosanna blossoms under Jucoโ€™s mentorship. She starts reading novels, legal codes, and eventually, court transcripts. Her father sees her as a sharper tool for the family; Juco sees her as a way to atone for his past.

During one lesson, Juco slips her a book banned by her father: an investigative journalistโ€™s exposรฉ on the โ€™Ndrangheta, detailing secret deals between mafia bosses, business tycoons, and Romeโ€™s political elite. Rosanna is horrified to see her familyโ€™s name in its pages.

When her father is arrested in a minor sweep, Rosanna takes a job as a low-level clerk in a Naples law office. She discovers she can spot patterns others miss โ€” hidden clauses, falsified contracts, laundering schemes โ€” simply because sheโ€™s learned to look at documents differently from years of struggling with words.

Quietly, she begins passing information to a small anti-mafia task force led by prosecutor Maria Lupo, whoโ€™s been chasing a larger target: the Propaganda Due network, Italyโ€™s most secret and dishonorable lodge of power brokers, which includes political kingmakers and even the sitting Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi.


ACT THREE โ€” The Fall of the House

The danger escalates. Juco is nearly killed in a staged โ€œroad accidentโ€ meant as a warning. Rosannaโ€™s own cousin betrays her identity to the family. But the prosecutor protects her under a witness-assistance program, moving her to Rome under a new name.

There, Rosanna decodes a labyrinth of offshore accounts linking โ€™Ndrangheta drug profits to construction kickbacks, TV media empires, and political bribery. Every breadcrumb points to the same man at the top.

Final Sequence:
In a tense press conference, Maria Lupo announces arrest warrants. Police swarm a lavish villa in Sardinia. Cameras capture a defiant yet shaken Silvio Berlusconi being led away in handcuffs, denying everything.

Back in Calabria, Juco watches the footage on a dusty old TV in his library. Rosanna, now free from witness protection, visits him. She hands him a book โ€” The Count of Monte Cristo โ€” with a colored overlay still tucked inside.

Rosanna: โ€œYou taught me to read, Juco. Now Iโ€™m teaching Italy to see.โ€

They sit in silence as the waves crash below, knowing the war against corruption is far from over โ€” but today, a giant has fallen.


TONE & STYLE:
Think Gomorrah meets Spotlight โ€” gritty realism mixed with political intrigue. Scenes alternate between rural Calabriaโ€™s olive groves and Romeโ€™s marble corridors of power. The colored overlays become a visual motif โ€” flashes of green, blue, yellow washing over documents and faces during key revelations.

THEMES:

  • Literacy as liberation and rebellion
  • The invisible power of women in dismantling organized crime
  • The tension between blood loyalty and moral courage
  • The slow grind of justice against entrenched corruption

ENDING FEEL:
Bittersweet victory โ€” justice is real, but it costs blood, exile, and the destruction of family ties.

Hitler: Learn by the Numbers

Title: Hitler: Learn by the Numbers
Genre: Historical Drama / Psychological Thriller / Biblical Allegory
Written by: Joseph C. Jukic
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Logline:
A haunting, poetic journey through the life of Adolf Hitler, structured through key years and matching Psalmsโ€”charting his transformation from a beaten Catholic boy to a messianic nationalist figure, and finally to a groom of deathโ€”before his story is drowned by the Psalm of peace.


TREATMENT

Opening Frame:

โ€œLearn by the numbers, children. There is a code to evil. And it begins in pain.โ€


1901 โ€“ Psalm 1: โ€œBlessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wickedโ€ฆโ€

Location: Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary.
Scene:
12-year-old Adolf Hitler stands trembling before the altar at his Catholic confirmation. His eyes look up to the crucifixโ€”hopeful, searching. Later that evening, his alcoholic father, Alois, whips him for crying in church. This becomes a ritual: beatings on every birthday. The number 1 is branded in his memory. He learns pain by the numbers.

Voiceover: โ€œHe delights not in the law of the Lord… but dreams of greatness in a barren house.โ€


1914 โ€“ Psalm 14: โ€œThe fool says in his heart, โ€˜There is no God.โ€™โ€

Scene:
Trenches of World War I. Young Hitler volunteers with zeal. He writes poetry to his mother and sketches grand temples in his notebook. But mustard gas and machine guns burn all illusions. He blames Jews, communists, and atheists for Germanyโ€™s decay. He finds comfort not in faith, but in fateโ€”and hatred.


1933 โ€“ Psalm 33: โ€œHe delivers them from death and keeps them alive in famine.โ€

Scene:
Germany. Starving, broken by reparations. A charismatic Hitler rises like a false messiah, delivering speeches that invoke divine destiny. He seizes power and โ€œsavesโ€ the nation through rearmament and propaganda. Bread returns to tables. Flags rise. Psalm 33 is quoted in Nazi churches.

Voiceover: โ€œHe believed he was the Psalmโ€”the shepherd of wolves.โ€


1939 โ€“ Psalm 39: โ€œLet me know how fleeting my life isโ€ฆโ€

Scene:
On the eve of invasion, Hitler stares into the mirror in the Berghof. Heโ€™s gaunt, manic, haunted by voices. Poland is next. Time is short, and his enemies multiply.

He whispers, โ€œI have become a ghost of a man. A fury of destiny.โ€


1945 โ€“ Psalm 45: โ€œGird your sword on your side, you mighty one; clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.โ€

Scene:
A surreal, grotesque wedding in the Fรผhrerbunker. Eva Braun and Hitler marry amid crumbling ceilings and flickering lights. He wears a black military uniform like royal robes. The walls drip with sweat and smoke. Outside, Berlin burns.

A Nazi priest reads from Psalm 45 over a backdrop of collapse.
โ€œYour throne, O god, will last foreverโ€ฆโ€
The guests are corpses and ghosts.
Hours later, they are both dead.


1946 โ€“ Psalm 46: โ€œHe makes wars cease to the ends of the earth.โ€

Scene:
Nuremberg Trials. The ghosts of the dead watch from above the court. A young boy reads Psalm 46 aloud in church. The words echo over the rubble of Europe.

โ€œBe still, and know that I am Godโ€ฆ He breaks the bow and shatters the spear.โ€

In a montage, we see the ovens dismantled. Flags lowered. Children playing in the ruins. A new Germany being born.


Closing Frame:

The numbers fade onto screen:
1901
1914
1933
1945
1946

Then dissolve into a single Psalm:
โ€œBe still.โ€

End.


Themes:

  • The perversion of faith and scripture
  • The pattern of trauma passed down through violence
  • The seductive power of messianic identity
  • The ultimate futility of tyranny before divine justice