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Dakota Caves - 2 Miles

TITLE: Dakota Caves - 2 Miles (Feature Version)

AUTHOR: A Robert J. Rogers Screenplay

LOGLINE: Scrambled eggs aren't what they're cracked up to be, especially when they stop in for a visit.

GENRE: Horror/Thriller/Science Fiction

PAGES: 101

SYNOPSIS: Elmwood, a sleepy town in rural Nebraska, is the epicenter of an alien invasion. A spaceship drops trillions of egg-shaped objects into the atmosphere that float down and hover on the ground. While the planet tries to understand what it is, inside is a growing, vicious, creature that eventually cuts it's way out of the shell, and attacks humanity with blood-thirsty intentions. As three couples navigate through the apocalyptic massacre, they learn the devastating truth of why they're here. Kill all men! Feed on children! Capture women to use as next-gen breeders! And to find their queen, who happens to live in........ Elmwood, Nebraska!

SIMILAR MOVIES: The War of the Worlds. Alien.

  • Robert J. Rogers
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Number of Pages:
    101
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Writer Biography - Robert J. Rogers

Biography - Mr. Robert J. Rogers

Robert J. Rogers was born on November 21st, 1953 in Toledo, Ohio. With his two older brothers, he grew up in a small farm town in northwestern Ohio. In 1963, Bob and his family; his mother was a fourth grade teacher, his father was an accountant, moved to Sandusky, Ohio. While at Sandusky High School, Bob sang in the choir, and played in the marching, dance, and concert band. He also threw discus on the track team.

Each summer he played Dixieland trombone at the Cedar Point Amusement Park in the world-famous Hobo Band. The bands fame culminated by appearing as one of the dance teams on the Miss Teenage America Pageant in Fort Worth, Texas. But when Bob was a senior, his life completely changed. He had an extraordinary English teacher who taught him how to write. And write he did.

After Bob's freshman year at Ohio State University, he traveled to Europe -- ten countries in twenty-eight days -- with a national orchestra and choir out of Pittsburgh. One of the more memorable venues was singing in an eight hundred year old church north of Amsterdam. The music just exploded off the earthen walls. And for the finale, the choir surrounded the audience and sang a cappella -- "I'd Like to teach the world to sing" -- bringing everyone to tears. What a moment! What a memory!

While at Ohio State, Bob was an active member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He also tried out for, and made, the prestigious Ohio State University Marching Band. And during those four years, he marched in three Rose Bowl Parades in Pasadena. Bob also threw discus on the track team competing at many NCAA meets including the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. And on the side, Bob wrote term papers for other students. Fifty bucks. A thousand words. Any subject except the sciences. And he could do it in under an hour. It paid for a lot of beer, and a lot of dates. One of his papers won an award, and another helped a student graduate.

After college Bob took a catering job with a hotel company outside of Chicago. Several years later as Vice President of Marketing, he wrote and taught from a manual on hotel sales and marketing. His meteoric rise was well deserved. But there was a price to pay for climbing the ladder so quickly. And that price, was his life!

In November 1990, Bob received a double kidney/ pancreas transplant at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. That surgery saved his life. Another life-saving moment came when they rolled him out of intensive care onto the transplant floor. A nurse walked into his room, and into his life, and Bob and Virginia have been together ever since. In May 1999, they were married on the shores of Lake Keowee.

As if destiny knew what was needed, Bob discovered the Duke surgeons had made a catastrophic mistake that killed his transplanted kidney. And had it not been for Virginia's skills to counter the mistakes, Bob would have died.

While enduring over fifteen years of corrective surgery, blood transfusions, hemodialysis, and a second kidney transplant at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Bob bought a book at Barnes & Noble on screenwriting. When his research was complete, he finished his first play titled, 'Patient Friendly'. Turns out Bob's suffering occurred for all the wrong reasons.

Since then he's written five more plays; "The Salt Box" - an unlikely romance between a Union soldier and a southern belle; "Hell on Neptune"- a teen builds a ray gun forcing the family to flee; "Dakota Caves - 2 Miles" - a short horror screenplay about a horrible alien invader that has three things on their mind, and they're all deadly. Tthe feature screenplay version of "Dakota Caves - 2 Miles". It's framed similar to "War of the Worlds", but without the divorce crap. And finally "Strappado". Millennials awaken souls that were accused, tortured, and hung for witchcraft centuries ago. What happens next makes blood running down the gutter seem docile.

Currently Bob and Virginia reside in Simpsonville, South Carolina with their four-legged son, Duncan. And yes, he watches and barks at the TV!

(And the moral of the story is, no matter what you've endured in the past, you're one keystroke away from changing your future.)

CREDITS/AWARDS

1. WINNER - Best Horror Feature Screenplay - 2016 Canadian Diversity Film Festival - Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

2. WINNER - Best Horror Feature Screenplay - 2016 Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival - Hollywood, California

3. Semi-Finalist - Feature Screenplay Competition - 2016 Los Angeles Cinefest - Los Angeles, California. (TBD-Jan/2017)

4. Semi-Finalist - Feature Screenplay Competition - 2015 Eerie Horror Film Festival - Edinboro, Pennsylvania.

5. Finalist - Best Horror Screenplay Competition - 2016 World Series of Screenwriting - Los Angeles, California

6. Finalist - Best Horror Feature Screenplay - 2016 Zed Fest Film Festival & Screenplay Competition - Burbank, California.

7. Finalist - Thriller/Horror/SciFi Screenplay Competition - 2016 Fall Feature Script Competition - Roseville, California.

8. Finalist - Best Horror Feature Screenplay - 2016 Los Angeles Screenplay Contest, Los Angeles, California.

9. Finalist - Unproduced Screenplay Competition - 2016 Catharthis International Film Festival - Belgium.

10. Finalist - Feature Screenplay Competition - 2017 Northern Lights Film Festival.

11, Finalist - Precious 5 - Best Feature Horror Script Competition - WIND International Film Festival - North Hollywood, California.

12. Finalist - Feature Screenplay Competition - 2017 Crimson Screen Horror Fest - Charleston, South Carolina.

13. Finalist - Feature Screenplay Contest - Cannes Film Festival , Cannes, France.

14. Finalist - Sci-Fi Feature Screenplay Competition - 2017 International Horror Hotel Film Festival - Hudson, Ohio.

15. Finalist - Feature Screenplay Competition - 2017 Mexico International Film Festival

16. Finalist - Feature Screenplay Competition - 2017 Genre Blast Film Festival - Winchester, Virginia.

17. Finalist - Feature Screenplay Competition - 2017 Alaska International Film Awards.

18. Finalist - Feature Screenplay Competition - 2017 Independent Horror Movie Awards -

19. WINNER - Feature Screenplay Competition - Genre Blast Film Festival - Winchester, Virginia.

20. Finalist - Feature Screenplay Competition - 2017 Catalina International Film Festival - Catalina island, California.

21. Finalist - Feature Screenplay Competition - Horror - 2017 Hollywood screenplay Competition - Hollywood, California.

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QUOTE:

"Dakota Caves - 2 Miles" beat out hundreds of others to earn it's spot as the "Best of the Best" screenplays we received this season.

John Walkiewicz
The Eerie Horror Film Festival.

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Hell on Neptune- filmfreeway.com/project/30443
Dakota Caves - 2 Miles (Feature) - filmfreeway.com/project/851529
Dakota Caves - 2 Miles (Short) - filmfreeway.com/project/447398
The Salt Box - filmfreeway.com/project/892235
Strappado - filmfreewaqy.com/project/1335653
Patient Friendly - filmfreeway.com/project/1378707
Rogue's Coward - filmfreeway.com/RoguesCoward

Add Writer Biography
Writer Statement

"Dakota Caves - 2 Miles" is based on a short story I wrote in the sixth grade. I started writing the short script on September 25, 2015, and finished September 30, 2015. And because of the overwhelming world-wide popularity of this storyline, I wrote the story into a feature and finished it on August 8, 2016.

(Elmwood, Nebraska is his wife's home town.)