Resolution: FINISH MY DAMN SCRIPTS!

I’m a master of finishing a draft of a script and then tinkering on it few years or, in one case, decades. Last year was supposed to be the year that I actually finished these scripts and put them out into the world but I basically slept away most of 2025 so ‘26 will be the year! (Or will it?!)

The reason for the kick in the ass today is that one of my ideas seems to be a fairly popular premise in the indie world. My script, Inebriangel, is about a woman who wakes up after blackout drunk and realizes that she has superpowers. She can’t remember how she got them and she soon figures out that her powers only last as long as she’s hungover. After getting wasted again to regain her powers, she discovers that, when she’s blacked out, her drunken self acts like a superhero, putting herself in harm’s way to help others, and that’s something our hungover/sober hero is NOT cool with.

It’s a fun half-hour comedy with drunken and hungover hijinks that also investigates the question, “What if there’s a better person inside of us but we just don’t like that person?” and “Is it OK to not want to be your supposed best self?”

Anyway, I’ve been sitting on that script for a while and lo and behold, today I discovered that drunkeness is having a moment.

My friend sent me a story about the new film Buzzkill.

“Buzzkill centers on a group of sorority sisters who end up trapped with a murderer. Nora’s (Agudong) tipsy memories hold the clues to figuring out who is killing their friends, but she can only remember them when she’s drunk.”

The funny thing is, my friend only sent me that paragraph so when I went to find the story, I stumbled upon another announcement from just a few months ago about a different movie featuring drunkeness as a key element and, well, you’ll never guess the title.

Billy Magnussen and Lulu Wilson have signed to co-star in Joe Lynch’s horror comedy Buzzkill ahead of an early 2026 shoot in Texas, as Anonymous Content and The Veterans join forces to launch sales on the film at the AFM.

Billed as a blend of A Quiet Place and Another Round, the movie is set in a small Texas town terrorized by a creature that can only be seen by people who are drunk.

Now obviously, these films don’t follow my exact premise and maybe I can jump in and finish off the original trilogy (although mine’s a TV show not a film) but it inspired me to tackle the project and finish it so I can maybe try to do something with it.

Another script that, sadly, is having a moment is the script I started writing in college. It’s called Freaks and the premise: Set in the old West, a traveling freak show gets stranded in a town of xenophobic, homicidal maniacs. The travelers must realize that the townsfolk are the true freaks and escape before it’s too late.

I feel like with everything going on in the US right now and all of the ICE craziness, this script could get a bit more attention. Unfortunately, despite tinkering on it for about 25 years, I’ve never been able to crack it. But, again, maybe 2026 will be the year!

At the very least, I have to give it a try. I’d love to enter my 50s without any unfinished scripts/ideas looming over me.