Joe Verdugo
Screenplays
Selected Works
Away from Yesterday:
A widowed store clerk finally lets herself fall for a charming deliveryman who is secretly a billionaire hiding from his vengeful wife. On the night she takes him home, her rookie cop son hears her cries through the door, mistakes passion for assault, and shoots.
2999 Race to the Sun:
Deceased physicist Dr. Lee’s secret research goes on via code to Vita, his star pupil, and child prodigy decodes his warning of a ravenous ballooning toxic waste entity about to devour New Earth. Instinctively tracing ancient math and memory through time Vita unlocks the keys to the planet’s survival in a 1300 BC pyramid and her own DNA.
18 & Idaho:
A bitter realtor murders the colleague who outsold him, stages it as a murder suicide, and makes a fortune reselling the house. What he did not account for is that the family never left it, and that the dead can testify.
Nine Dates to Soulmate:
A lonely bartender, Kurt, signs up for a dating service that guarantees it will find him the love of his life. By the seventh date, he has found his soulmate-but on the third date, a jealous tech mogul sabotages the system, leaving two wounded hearts to find their way back to each other without the algorithm.
