Writing

A Man and A Machine, How a Human and an AI Built Two Films and Learned to Trust Each Other. Written by Marc Sacco, published 2026. Available on Amazon. Buy it here!

Synopsis: THE BOOK
A Man & A Machine is the complete documented account of Marc Sacco — clinical nurse hypnotist, recovering TBI survivor, and WGA-registered filmmaker — 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, two television pilots, a limited series and the honest accounting of what it costs to carry a collaboration that can’t carry itself.

Verbal Medicine, The Language of Healing. co-written by Marc Sacco & Roger Woods, The Patient Whisperers. 2018. Available on Amazon. Buy it Here!

Screenplay: Gray Ops, WGA Reg# 2337414, by Marc Sacco, 2026. Action Comedy.

Synopsis: Gray Ops is an action-comedy about a group of retired veterans — Heck’s Brigade — 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 — Minister Marcus Redoc — to dismantle American institutions from within.

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.

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 — and to a country that forgot about them long before they forgot about it.

Screenplay: C.L.A.U.D.E., WGA Reg# 2340473, by Marc Sacco, 2026. Science Fiction Drama. Synopsis:

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 — 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.

THE STORY
MARC SACCHI, 12, is the smartest kid in every room and the loneliest. When his father — a university research scientist — 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.

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

When the APEX GROUP reveals their true intentions — weaponizing Claude’s intelligence for military application — 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.

Screenplay: The Bananas, WGA Reg# 2342641, by Marc Sacco, 2026. Mob Family Comedy.

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 — 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.

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 Banaño family. One rule: no contact, no incidents, two weeks in and out clean. Then Dale opens the wardrobe — full of yellow pinstripe suits — 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.

JACK, A Donkey’s Tail
| Zenimage Studios | Animated Feature Film Screenplay, WGA Registration # 2344960, by Marc Sacco, 2026

LOGLINE
When an adventurous lamb and a wolf cub go missing simultaneously, a gruff old donkey and a fearsome wolf alpha lead their very different groups on a collision course — only to discover at the edge of a flooding gulley that they’ve been enemies for many years over a tragedy they both misunderstood.

 THE WORLD  —  A Vermont farm in late autumn. Jack, a gruff old donkey, has protected his flock for decades with iron-willed precision — a hyper-vigilance rooted in a loss he’s never spoken about. His flock of eight near-identical sheep (the Jill Eight: Jill, Bill, Phil, Gill, Will, Dill, Mil, Til) is his entire world. And then there’s Bob — the one lamb who doesn’t rhyme, doesn’t fit, and can’t stop wandering. Bob, with his untamable tuft of wild wool and his endless curiosity about what’s just over the next hill, is Jack’s greatest challenge and his greatest source of unspoken pride.

THE STORY  —  When Bob goes missing, the farm draws one conclusion: the predators took him. Across the tree line, when wolf cub Kit goes missing, the pack draws the same conclusion in reverse: the farm took him. Both sides mobilize. Jack assembles an unlikely rescue squad — Nugget the tactically overconfident chicken, Melvin the genuinely brave goat with one involuntary flaw, and Chris the terrified piglet who is braver than anyone knows. Waya, the alpha wolf, leads his own group from the other direction. Both missions are wrong. Both are completely convinced.

THE TRUTH  —  Bob and Kit found each other in the middle — the border both sides told them to fear. They played. They wandered. They got lost together in the same gulley as a Vermont storm rolls in and the water begins to rise. When both groups arrive at the cliff edge expecting battle, they hear two small voices from below instead. And in the water beneath them — an old donkey’s bridle and a wolf’s necklace, side by side, several years underwater. Jack whispers “Earl.” Waya whispers “Luna.” They look at each other. Nothing said. Everything understood. They’ve been grieving the same night for all those years.

THE RESCUE  —  What follows requires everything both groups have — the predators’ knowledge of the terrain, the farm animals’ ability to work as a unit, and the timely return of Hoofenstein, a structurally questionable fake bull built from farm junk that nobody will ever speak of again. The rescue works because neither side could have done it alone. It could only have ever ended this way.

Screenplay: Robo Hood sequel to C.L.A.U.D.E., WGA Reg# 2340473, by Marc Sacco, 2026. Science Fiction Drama.

ROBO HOOD
When the AI he raised as a boy escapes and resurfaces as the world’s most wanted vigilante hacker, a teenage genius must protect his best friend, outsmart the people hunting him, and deal with an awkward charging cable.

Coming Soon.

Screenplay ADAM, Not Alone. by Marc Sacco, 2026. Sci-Fi Thriller.

When a therapist discovers her young patient’s imaginary friend is a real being reaching across dimensional barriers, she must protect the girl from a shadow government threatened by a message that will rewrite everything humanity believes about itself.

Coming Soon.