Three Visionary Screenplays

<p>For every screenplay that becomes a movie there are hundreds of spec scripts that never see the light of day. Even Oscar-winning screenwriters have their share.</p><p>In a Hollywood career spanning four decades Bruce Joel Rubin originated the films <em>Ghost</em> <em>Jacob's Ladder</em> and <em>Brainstorm</em>. But those celebrated works are not the only stories to emerge from his visionary imagination.</p><p><em>Quasar</em> written with David Bienstock is a mind-bending science fiction epic for the era of Timothy Leary <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em> and the Human Potential Movement about a scientist who sees the origins of life as we know it and a society on the verge of an evolutionary leap.</p><p><em>Teratoma</em> is a gut wrenching horror story that combines body horror with spiritual drama charting the outbreak of a global epidemic and a soul-searching war between hope and fear angels and devils.</p><p><em>Secrets of the Astral Plane</em> is a metaphysical thriller set during the waning days of the Cold War pitting a ragtag team of American psychics against a Soviet supervillain The fate of the Western world will be determined behind the cosmic curtain.</p><p>Together these three unproduced scripts offer insight into their respective genres the times in which they were written and the existential questions of a writer who has inspired many.</p>