Both "Beyond Suspicion" and "Aurora" are projects seeking financing.

Beyond Suspicion

Sometimes any choice you make will kill you...

"Beyond Suspicion" is an innovative film about a writer who plans to expose his years of successful murders in a novel. He puts his story to the best criminal profiler in the country, moving  through a deviant game of cat and mouse to see if she can recognize him as the mastermind behind decades of unsolved, supposedly unrelated, killing sprees.

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A Film by James A. Willis
Written by James B. Brandt
Copyright 2013 James B. Brandt

Aurora
 
In 1897 something crashed on the Texas prairie, something that's still unexplained… and someone wants to keep it that way.

“Aurora” centers around the world renowned case of a reported ‘airship’ crash in Aurora, Texas, years before any such craft should have existed. The story of the crash and subsequent burial of an Alien body in the local cemetery has baffled investigators for over a century. Often referred to as Texas’ Roswell, the incident is one of the most documented UFO crash investigations in history.
 
The screenplay is contemporary but incorporates flashbacks to 1897 to assist in telling the story.
Brief Synopsis: KEITH GARRETT, a reporter with The Dallas Chronicle, mysteriously receives a copy of an article about the Aurora crash published by his own newspaper in 1897. The article, tells the strange story of an object crashing in a small farming community… and a survivor among the wreckage that residents described as ‘from another world.’ The bizarre news article goes on to state that the craft’s pilot died of its injuries and was buried in the local cemetery.
 
Garrett, a student of history and aeronautics, is intrigued by the article and decides to investigate. He soon discovers that there was indeed a crash of an unidentified object in Aurora in 1897 and after tracing the mysterious copy of the Aurora article to RAY CAPLAN, author of three paranormal themed books, he immediately seeks him out. Caplan initially refuses to talk with him but later, after changing his mind, turns up dead.

Soon, Garrett finds himself the target of a vast conspiracy. First, he receives an anonymous and threatening phone call warning him to stop his inquiries. Then those that he has conversed with regarding the case either stop talking to him or simply vanish. Next, an odd man claiming to be the cemetery’s caretaker attempts to sway Garrett’s interest away from the incident claiming the story was all a hoax to attract interest to a dying community. And finally, an apparent attempt is made on Garrett’s own life but rather than convincing him to halt his investigation it has the opposite effect. Garrett becomes even more committed to breaking the case wide open leading to a media circus and an eventual exhumation hearing.
 
Unknowingly, by choosing to pursue the Aurora mystery, Garrett has made a decision that will transform him from a writer reporting a story to an intrinsic part of it. It seems that 110 years after the crash that there are those who still want the incident to remain an obscure mystery-with a deadly intent.

 
WGAw # 825921, WGAE #R21654
Copyright 2009 By James Alton Willis

 
 
After the Fact
 
Based on the novel After the Fact by best-selling author Fred Saberhagen.
 
The future depends on one man…

Graduate student Jerry Flint is shanghaied to prevent a presidential assassination, thrust into an unfamiliar world with a wanted man’s identity, and faced with solving the ultimate paradox: how does he prevent the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln without changing his own future?

When Jerry drives to Springfield, Illinois, to interview for a position as a computer tech with Dr. Pilgrim, he has no idea that he is about to be catapulted into the distant past to become a time-traveling secret agent. Worse yet, he has to piece together his instructions from scattered fragments of information and incomplete messages. But when he meets Colleen Monahan, things really become complicated.

Monahan is working for the War Department and is expecting a report from an agent she has never met. Aware that her contact has been slain, Pilgrim seizes upon the opportunity to slip Jerry into his role. The fact that the agent was to report on activities of a corrupt government official adds a layer of complexity to Jerry’s coerced assignment, nearly leading to his own death.
Monahan is working for the War Department and is expecting a report from an agent she has never met. Aware that her contact has been slain, Pilgrim seizes upon the opportunity to slip Jerry into his role. The fact that the agent was to report on activities of a corrupt government official adds a layer of complexity to Jerry’s coerced assignment, nearly leading to his own death. 

Jerry manages to dodge bullets, personal entanglements, and the suspicions of John Wilkes Booth to put him next to the President at the fateful moment. But the question remains: will Pilgrim’s ambitious scheme be Jerry's ticket home or lead him to a future he doesn’t know?
 
"After the Fact" screenplay
WGAW# 1493939
Copyright 2011 by James Alton Willis
Screenplay rights to the novel secured