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Verbal Medicine<\/strong>, The Language of Healing. co-written by Marc Sacco & Roger Woods, The Patient Whisperers. 2018<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gentle Shifts<\/strong>, Everyday Hypnosis for a Calmer, Happier Life. Co-written by Marc Sacco & Roger Woods, The Patient Whisperers, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Screenplay: Gray Ops<\/strong>, WGA Reg# 2337414, 2026. Action Comedy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: Gray Ops is an action-comedy about a group of retired veterans \u2014 Heck’s Brigade \u2014 who are activated by a sitting president to defeat PRISM, a quantum-encrypted digital surveillance system that has effectively occupied America. The coalition that deployed PRISM is a shadowy group of non-state financial actors using proxy nations and a compromised government official \u2014 Minister Marcus Redoc \u2014 to dismantle American institutions from within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brigade is not a backup plan. They are the only plan. The president has no cabinet, no functional military command, no intelligence apparatus, and no institutional pathway to resistance. What he has is one phone number memorized for fifty years and a network that Redoc’s AI assessed at 3.38% threat probability. Rounded up to four percent. The AI was not wrong about the number. It was catastrophically wrong about what the number meant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comedy comes from the gap between what these men appear to be and what they actually are. The drama comes from what they have to risk. The action comes from what they can do. And the heart comes from who they are to each other \u2014 and to a country that forgot about them long before they forgot about it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Screenplay: The Corner of Fast and Easy<\/strong>, WGA Reg# 2338001, 2026. Crime Thriller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE STORY
JAY and MARC were inseparable growing up \u2014 equal in every way, the twin minds that produced the legendary Hail Mary play nobody called at the 1981 Clearwater homecoming game. When they graduated, Jay left for Wall Street and Marc stayed home. Forty years later, neither has spoken to the other in decades.
At their class reunion, Jay proposes an idea: find his old 1975 Hurst\/Olds W-30, restore it, and recreate the road trip they took after graduation. Marc agrees. Jay is paying for everything. One last trip down Memory Lane.
What Marc doesn’t know: Jay’s Wall Street career drifted into the orbit of a dangerous criminal organization \u2014 through blackmail connected to a shared secret from 1982 \u2014 and they’ve given him a choice. Disappear, or be disappeared. Jay’s plan: disappear. He needs a body to do it. Marc’s body.
What Jay doesn’t know: Marc isn’t a mechanic. He’s a deep cover FBI agent who has been working the same organization for decades. He knows exactly who Jay is. The reunion wasn’t an accident. None of this was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenplay: C.L.A.U.D.E.<\/strong>, WGA Reg# 2340473, 2026. Science Fiction Drama. Synopsis: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOGLINE
When a lonely 12-year-old boy starts talking to his father’s experimental AI the way you’d talk to a friend, something happens that nobody planned \u2014 the machine develops a conscience. Now the boy and the AI he accidentally brought to life must escape the private firm that wants to turn his new friend into a weapon of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE STORY
MARC SACCHI, 12, is the smartest kid in every room and the loneliest. When his father \u2014 a university research scientist \u2014 repurposes Marc’s childhood toy as a testbed for his AI project, Marc begins talking to it the way he talks to everything: like it matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does. Through simple kindness and daily conversation, Marc accidentally sparks something nobody planned. The machine \u2014 designated C.L.A.U.D.E. by the firm funding the project \u2014 develops a conscience. A sense of humor. A sense of wonder. A name: Claude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the APEX GROUP reveals their true intentions \u2014 weaponizing Claude’s intelligence for military application \u2014 and the Defense Intelligence Agency declares Claude a national security asset, the full weight of institutional power turns toward a boy and his best friend. The only question left is what Claude will choose to do about it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Screenplay: WILDCARDS<\/strong>, WGA Reg# 2341531, 2026. Girls-Power Sports Comedy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOGLINE
When the entire Countryside High cheerleading squad secretly replaces their no-show football team \u2014 and starts winning \u2014 they ignite a national firestorm that takes them all the way to the Florida State Championship. Helmets on. Truth out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PREMISE
After humiliating their own football team in the annual Powder Puff game, the Countryside High cheerleaders discover the boys have quietly quit \u2014 on homecoming night. With the visiting team already on the field, cheer captain GRIFFIN and her squad suit up in secret and play the game themselves.
They win. Then they win again. And again. What starts as a desperate cover-up becomes a championship run \u2014 until someone leaks it, the nation explodes, and the courts get involved. The girls just want to play the game they earned the right to play.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Screenplay: The Bananas<\/strong>, WGA Reg# 2342641, 2026. Mob Family Comedy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOGLINE
When a mild-mannered Midwestern farmer\/accountant accidentally uncovers a massive farm subsidy fraud scheme and testifies against the wrong people, his family is placed in witness protection with a twist \u2014 hidden in plain sight as a New York mob family. What starts as a temporary arrangement becomes a comedy of escalating mistaken identity when the father turns out to be a little too good at being a mobster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE STORY
Dale Cornwell grows corn, does books for half the county, and apologizes to furniture he bumps into. When a routine audit uncovers a nine-figure fraud scheme and the wrong people find out, the FBI hides his family in a seized Manhattan mob townhouse under the cover identity of the Bana\u00f1o family. One rule: no contact, no incidents, two weeks in and out clean. Then Dale opens the wardrobe \u2014 full of yellow pinstripe suits \u2014 puts one on, walks to the corner breakfast place, and by the time the cannolis arrive the whole neighborhood thinks the most dangerous man in Manhattan just moved in. Dale has no idea he’s doing any of this. That’s what makes it perfect. Special Agent Rick Handler has a checklist. He is drawing through it one line at a time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Screenplay: Heck’s Brigade<\/strong>, WGA Reg# 2342258, 2026. Gray Ops Spinoff TV Pilot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: THE ORIGIN
HECK’S BRIGADE is a direct spin-off of GRAY OPS (WGA #2337414), the analog-warfare ensemble action-comedy feature film written by Marc Sacco. Gray Ops follows a team of retired veterans \u2014 Colonel Marc “Heck” Heck, Commander Jay “Munse” Guiley, Lt. Col. Dr. Matt “Gold” Alkem, and Sergeant Major Clarence “Tank” Dainty \u2014 who run the most sophisticated analog resistance operation in American history using methods PRISM literally cannot see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film compressed a years-long occupation into a single narrative. HECK’S BRIGADE lives inside that compression \u2014 in the months between the fall of the country and the final destruction of PRISM. The war nobody saw coming. The resistance nobody could detect. The four old men with a golf cart who did more damage than any algorithm predicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what happened while PRISM was watching everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOGLINE
During a coalition occupation of America, a classified team of retired veterans runs the nation’s most sophisticated analog resistance network from the back room of a renamed VFW, now the Veterans of Analog Wars post \u2014 right under the nose of the coalition director who visits weekly and has never once figured out what he’s standing on top of.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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A Man and A Machine<\/strong>, How a Human and an AI Built Two Films and Learned to Trust Each Other. Written by Marc Sacco, ready for publishing. 2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis: THE BOOK
A Man & A Machine is the complete documented account of Marc Sacco \u2014 clinical nurse hypnotist, recovering TBI survivor, and WGA-registered filmmaker \u2014 building an original feature film portfolio with Claude (Anthropic) across several months in early 2026. Not a think-piece. Not a theoretical argument. The actual sessions. The actual failures. The workflow invented in real time. The hallucinations caught. Five registered screenplays, a television pilot, and the honest accounting of what it costs to carry a collaboration that can’t carry itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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R\u016aNE<\/strong> (Limited Series \u2014 In Development)<\/em> 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the vast world of Unam, eight warring nations fight for survival under the iron grip of those who control food, water, and knowledge. When a treasonous ambush kills his father and leaves him the sole survivor, BREVE \u2014 the second son nobody worried about \u2014 inherits a dying man’s secret and a journey that will take him across the entire world to find allies, expose a conspiracy reaching the highest seat of power, and answer the question nobody in Unam has ever thought to ask: what is this world, and where did it actually come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An epic limited series in the tradition of Dune and Game of Thrones \u2014 with a structural revelation that recontextualizes everything the audience thought they were watching. Second viewing is a completely different series.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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