Ghost Mamba

Mamba is an assassin raised in the deadly arts. A perfect killer whose only weakness is being haunted by a choice: she killed a child whose father was the target. Herself an orphan who saw her parents die, this cuts deep just as a relentless vigilante, the Mongoose, is on her tail and having already killed all but 3 of her former unit. These former unit members are surrogate siblings and the only warm relationship they ever had in their harsh upbringing.

As Mamba gathers her unit, she uncovers a plot, her former agency’s new leaders want to expand a super-soldier project to be muscle for a major new underworld syndicate. She also weans into the warmth of family, as her team works together. And then finally, she resolvs a fatal duel with a choice her training told her to shun, mercy, thus leading to a lifelong killer’s first step at redemption.

  • Michael Dzurak
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Action, Thriller
  • Number of Pages:
    106
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Stage32 4th Annual Action/Thriller Screenwriting Contest (2024)
    Stage32
    November 30, 2024
    Semifinalist
  • ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition (2024)
    ScreenCraft
    August 29, 2024
    Quarterfinalist
  • ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition (2023)
    ScreenCraft
    September 7, 2023
    Semifinalist
Writer Biography - Michael Dzurak

← This guy here grew up around and went to college in Boston. Studied English Lit. & Cinema Studies.

Traveled around Central Europe - Warsaw, Krakow-Prague-Vienna-Munich-Cologne-Brussels - during a semester in Paris.
Lived in NYC. Now he lives & works in Korea (the fun one).

Started writing screenplays in 2020. And it was awesome. Writes about what makes his heart pound.

So far that's been 6 screenplays - 3 action, 1 adventure holiday, 1 drama, and 1 slow-burn horror.

Currently, writing script #7, a drama with early 2000s-era nostalgic themes.

Working on outlines & loglines all the time on new and sequel scripts to his current portfolio.

"War is a continuation of politics by other means" ~Carl von Clausewitz

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Writer Statement

During Covid lockdown in 2020, I found an old PDF... it was my 1st — and only — screenplay. Something clicked. I redrafted it several times. Started to watch any screenwriting vlog that I could. A fire had started. Nostalgia hit. I’d been in a chair for days on end due to work from home. However, after each late afternoon walk, I’d sit right back down to write my 2nd... 3rd... 4th... 5th... and by early 2025, I was co-writing 2 scripts at once.

My 1st script, Howard, a drama-horror inspired by The Ring, placed in 2 quarter-finals. Hints of Lovecraft’s cosmic horror and my fave 1990s action video game made it into my 2nd script. My 3rd, Ghost Mamba, an action thriller, made it to semi-final place twice, is my take on the dark, gritty hero trend.

However, like all the scripts I have written, and will go on to write, it was spurned from a tumultuous brainstorm, a brain hurricane, if you will, with a volcanic eruption thrown in. It made my heart race, imagination run, and for every hair-pulling minute of frustration there were two of sheer joy.

If a story brainstorm doesn’t launch into that after a few tries, I let it go. If 3 or so pages of outline can’t get my heart racing ... then 90+ pages of screenplay won’t either.