Dan Sullivan
Screenwriter
Just a Jersey boy who became a Brooklyn man after a
4-year pit stop at RIT's School of Film and Animation.
Upon my arrival to the Big Apple, I worked the streets for
years (as a Production Assistant) before becoming a true boss (an Assistant Director), all while writing features and pilots in an attempt to boycott sleep altogether.
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Deep Down
Feature Screenplay, 117 pages
Still processing her mother’s suicide, a jaded therapist returns to her family’s secluded cottage to confront the lake monster that spared her life two decades earlier.
"Regarding the initial portrayal of your main character, Selena, audiences could struggle to connect and understand the reasons behind her disillusioned, existential, and depressed state. This leads to another concern regarding Selena’s likability, particularly in the first half of the script. Ultimately, the better we like her, the more we’ll want to root for her character and engage with her journey."
- A Black List Reader
"That Black List reader is an idiot. Your so-called 'Unlikable Female Protagonist' is one of the best portrayals of a woman written by a male writer that I've ever read."
- A Woman
Hawk Squad
Animated Pilot, 30 pages
Co-Written with Chelsea Dallas Falato
When a misfit group of Private Investigators discovers a new street drug sweeping the city, they rush to solve the case before the NYPD gets involved and takes the credit.
Also, they’re Hawks.
The pilot episode of "Hawk Squad" was a finalist in the 1st Annual Stage 32 New Voices in Animation Screenwriting Contest.
Trial By Fire
Feature Screenplay, 113 pages
When her top secret military program is sabotaged, a headstrong engineer with no combat experience must lead a team of bionic soldiers against an army of artificially intelligent robots programmed to be judge, jury, and executioner.
"The script puts a fresh spin on war films, exploring android warfare and the ensuing moral dilemmas & robo-ethics which accompany it."
- Black List Evaluation
Survivors
Survivors
Short Screenplay, 17 pages
A post-apocalyptic teenage love story gets even more complicated when the last ones alive realize they’ve been lied to about what remains of their future.
"As it turns out this has something to add to the apocalypse genre. And right now it's something that seems a bit too plausible. They aren't looking out for zombies or anything like that. What's chasing them is death brought all that much closer by a virus with no cure. This takes the apocalypse where it always should have gone. This isn't a playground for Mad Max types. This is it. This is the end.
We haven't seen things like this since 'The Day After' and 'On the Beach.'
The story starts with the usual tropes of ordinary people walking out into the wasteland like badasses. But in the final scenes they're reduced to people just waiting to die. It's grim but also emotional and there's a dark beauty to it."
- WeScreenplay Shorts Contest feedback
Woodhaven
Feature Screenplay, 110 pages
A disgraced fighter seeks refuge at the secretive military facility that experimented on her as a child. But when she finds the son of a former opponent among the newest test subjects,
she vows to rescue him the only way she knows how.