Tag: Don Jakoby

Vampires Script

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Year:1998
Director:John Carpenter
Written by:Don Jakoby (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
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Blue Thunder Script

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Year:1983
Director:John Badham
Written by:Don Jakoby (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Officer Frank Murphy, an experienced LAPD helicopter pilot, is given command of the advanced new "Blue Thunder" chopper. But he begins to wonder why the LAPD would need a helicopter so powerful and why it is such a secret.
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The Philadelphia Experiment Script

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Year:1984
Director:Stewart Raffill
Written by:Wallace C. Bennett (Story), Don Jakoby (Story), Charles Berlitz (Novel), William L. Moore (Novel), William Gray (Screenplay), Michael Janover (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
The Philadelphia Experiment Script Resources:

  • The Philadelphia Experiment Script PDF - [11-15-1983] at Script Fly ($)
  • The Philadelphia Experiment Script PDF - 11/15/83 *pg. at Script City ($)
  • The Philadelphia Experiment Transcript at scripts.com

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  • The Philadelphia Experiment ( tt0087910 ) at IMDb
  • The Philadelphia Experiment ( 10606 ) at TheMovieDB.org
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Death Wish 3 Script

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Year:1985
Director:Michael Winner
Written by:Don Jakoby (Writer), Brian Garfield (Characters)

Script Synopsis:Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
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Arachnophobia Script

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Year:1990
Director:Frank Marshall
Written by:Don Jakoby (Screenplay), Wesley Strick (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.
Arachnophobia Script Resources:

  • Arachnophobia Script PDF - [Jakoby] [1ST 5/5/1989] at Script Fly ($)
  • Arachnophobia Script PDF - XL2/8/90 8TH REVISED at Script City ($)
  • Arachnophobia Transcript at scripts.com

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Double Team Script

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Year:1997
Director:Tsui Hark
Written by:Don Jakoby (Screenplay), Paul Mones (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:He's a one-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world. They Don't Play by the Rules. You're either on their side...or in their way. America's top counter-terrorist usually works alone...this time he's got company.
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Evolution Script

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Year:2001
Director:Ivan Reitman
Written by:David Diamond (Screenplay), David Weissman (Screenplay), Don Jakoby (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.
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Invaders From Mars

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Year:1986
Director:Tobe Hooper
Written by:Richard Blake (Original Story), Don Jakoby (Screenplay), Dan O'Bannon (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
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