A screenwriter who digs sports, Scotland, and Swiss cheese.
Skye Emerson specializes in feature and television dramatic comedy screenplays. Her scripts converge between a little bit of levity and a great deal of heart.
FEATURE SCRIPTS
CHALLENGER
FEATURE DRAMA
When guarded, yet brilliant astrophysicist Sally Ride joined the first astronaut class to include women, her fight to get to space seemed her greatest challenge, but Sally's mission to find the truth about the Challenger explosion, and her own identity, would soon threaten her foundation, and her future with NASA.
Based on True Events
SALT & HONEY
FEATURE DRAMEDY
A spirited and earnest young girl growing up outside of a salt mine town in Utah hopes to follow her dreams and become the scientist hero her town needs. With a new best friend, the girls endure misadventures, leading to a baking competition which could be the catalyst in her dreams coming true, but a tragic accident and her resentful mother may derail her plans.
In Pre-production
Producer and Writer
UNDER THE INFLUENCER
INDIE FEATURE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
An art critic with an online following faces a night of torture at the hands of her protege…but is she a victim, or the perpetrator of a more deleterious crime?
In Post-production
Producer and Writer
Showcased Cannes 2024
SF Queer Film Festival World Premier 2024
HEART OF HUCKLEBERRY
FEATURE ROM-COM
When her best friend and business partner offers to throw professional and poised Sawyer Thomas a bachelorette trip, eternally engaged Sawyer envisions palm trees and Pina Coladas, not a weeklong stay at a rustic ranch in her small hometown of Huckleberry Creek, a place Sawyer never expected to return to.
Feature Assignment
Nine-Act Structure
Optioned by Rom Com Pictures
A LITTLE HOLIDAY LOVE
FEATURE ROM-COM
When a woman finds herself stuck inside a tiny holiday village she’ll have to learn to see the world from a new perspective and lean in to her heart, if she hopes to find her way back home.
WHEN THE MEN WERE GONE
FEATURE DRAMA
A cross between Friday Night Lights and The Atomic City Girls, When The Men Were Gone is a debut historical novel based on the true story of Tylene Wilson, a woman in 1940's Texas.
In 1944 Brownwood Texas, English teacher Tylene Wilson is popular and well-loved, but when World War II takes the life the head football coach, Tylene must take up the mantle as head coach, in spite of extreme opposition, in order to keep her students from enlisting and going off to war.
Feature Adaptation
Optioned by Writ Large
CALL FOR A GOOD TIME
FEATURE COMEDY
An overly cautious guy takes his first big risk and enters a "Best Joke Ever" competition, but when his joke falls incredibly flat, a famous comedian takes him under her wing - which happens to lead to a night of car chases, animal theft, and general debauchery- as he works to find his inner entertainer.
Feature Assignment
Optioned
Co-Writer
HELLO MOON
FEATURE COMEDY
A&R Rep Assistant Joe Lyon is looking to sign THE band, the one that will finally land him a spot as a true A&R Rep; but when he mistakenly suggest a band on a whim to his boss, he learns that the group, Hello Moon, broke up 15 years ago. He’ll trek the Western U.S. with his best girlfriend and the aging guitarist who is just as determined to convince these former rockers that they haven’t yet had their true day in the sun while simultaneously trying to save his fledgling A&R career.
ENCHANTRESS
FEATURE DRAMA
The origin story of The Beast, this story tells of a time when a timid and insecure enchantress must find the power within herself and the powers she holds to help a prince become the loving king his country needs and not the beast he is foretold to be by the spells that will be cast on this young prince.
Co-Writer
HELP UNWANTED
FEATURE DRAMEDY
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1995 High school senior Zach spends his days making Slurpee Durpees at the local Dairy Freeze alongside a hodgepodge crew of misfits, including wild but beautiful Kayla, and gregarious and gay Toby, awaiting his impending Mormon mission, but when his domineering stepfather mistakenly suspects Zack to be gay, a trip to conversion therapy camp sets in motion an escape mission and a personal journey that will shape Zack’s conviction in himself, his friends, his faith, and his future.
50 MILES OUT
FEATURE DRAMA
When Army Vet Tim Sears boards a Carnival Cruise ship in 2003, he expects to have the time of his life, but when he comes to hours later in the middle of the ocean, with the ship nowhere to be seen, he must brave the elements, and his own fractured mind, in an effort to survive.
Based on True Events
Co-Writer
Working Title- Maddening Horizon
CHURCH & STATE
FEATURE DRAMA
When young teens Charlie, Zeke, Milo, and Brady sneak out of their house in 1983 to see the premiere of Return of the Jedi, only three of them will make it back home, but it will fall to the trio of friends, not the local authorities, to uncover the secrets and evil goings-on within their small town in rural Utah that led to the disappearance.
TV SCRIPTS
LITTLE GENES
FRANK & STEIN
SHORT
In 1987, on a weekend camping trip in Utah’s beautiful Wasatch mountains, fourteen-year-old Arlo Murphy is eager to prove he can be a World Explorer Scout like his dad, while his parents grapple with Arlo’s evolving gender identity.
In Post-production
littlegenesfilm.com
FRANK & STEIN
FRANK & STEIN
SATIRICAL TEEN ANIMATION
Frank, a lonely orphan, reanimates a best friend named Stein to help him face the mysterious goings-on in his spooky hometown of Amityville, from alien invasions to toy possessions, to the scariest activity of all - daily life in middle school.
Frank’s life is full of adversity, from being an orphan to his different abilities, yet he greets every day with hope – hope that he’ll find a family of his own, and hope that he’ll be accepted for who he truly is. Frank never shies away from a challenge - when he found himself without friends, he built himself a best friend, Stein.
TV Pilot On Spec
Optioned
Co-Writer
LEGENDARY
ADULT ANIMATION
There is a Deep State in the United States government that’s trying to remain hidden. Only they aren’t working to keep secrets from the population. No, they’re working to expose the truth behind those wild, conspiracy theories that your Aunt Lucy whispers in your ear at every family reunion. (Why are her yams always the best? Because she wraps her head in tin foil so no one can read her mind to get the recipe.)
The Deep State is run by J.F.K. Jr. He’s not dead, and he’s tired of living in his father’s shadow. His plan is to run for president… in 2032.
TV Pilot On Spec
Optioned
Co-Writer
GAY AT HOME DAD
TV COMEDY
A newly divorced gay father, Wes, needs to make a new home for him and his son in the suburbs of Connecticut. A popular Twitter personality with the handle @GAYATHOMEDAD, Wes is a New York City fish out of water who must navigate mommy cliques, a town without any flavor, his emotional fragility, and the kitchen oven as he tries to keep his followers and find his feet.
TV Pilot On Spec
BOUNDARIES
BOUNDARIES
TV DRAMADY
Esme, a Honduran recipient of DACA, is living the American dream in LA - she’s bright, edgy, driven, independent, and though she’s currently managing a bar, she has aspirations of utilizing her education and degree to change the world. Annika works at the same bar in LA, but she’s here on an expired visa from Sweden, working to find herself, and opportunities for her future. When an immigration raid at the bar lands one of them in jail, the two young women must work together, despite their overwhelming differences, to overcome the odds that are stacked against them, and in doing that they discover that their similarities run far deeper than their citizenship status.
TV Pilot Commissioned
In Pre-production
Women In Film
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