Screenplays and pilots
Michael Karp
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+1 (514) 562-8147


Venus & Vitalis
Rom-Com

The goddess Venus breaks off her two-thousand-year affair with Helen of Troy and moves to Hollywood to shag a math professor Chippendales dancer, marry a lonely Hollywood cinematographer and save the universe from lust. Everything comes to a climax at the Academy Awards red carpet and the Masonic temple sex playground across the street from the Dolby Theater.

"In Hollywood, sex is a religion"
"A comedy that leaves no sacred cows unmilked"

"God invented sex, but the devil's been taking all the credit"


Comps: Californication meets Barbarella


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Borrowed Boy
Drama-Thriller

A high school boy can't get to second base with his girlfriend, but then is mysteriously seduced at the mall,
by a beautiful twenty-five-year-old woman.

Now a runaway, the boy is trapped in an isolated farmhouse, with the woman and her abusive, alcoholic, widower father.

Comp: Misery

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Meow Meow Land

Music video

Directed by Michael Karp

A young couple in love, in a long distance relationship, are reunited through the magic of his dog and cat.

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Angel Elusive
Romance

An emotionally closed off woman is haunted by the death of her loving rock star father, as she pursues a tragic, star crossed love with a married man, wrapped around the Eagles song Desperado.

Comp: Love Story
His Lavender Bride
Romance

In WWII England, a romantic service woman is horrified when her pilot boyfriend is shot down in a dogfight with Nazi aircraft, crashing right in front of her. Heartbroken, she seduces and enters into a Lavender marriage with her closeted, gay commanding officer.

Comp: Brideshead, Revisited


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Aria's Dream
Fantasy romance

Princess Aria lives in a magical kingdom where all animals and humans grow dragon wings at puberty
and, as a rite of passage, learn to fly. But Aria doesn't grow wings, so the other children ostracize her. She overcompensates, becoming a flirty serial monogamist, breaking hearts along the way, much to the disapproval of her beloved pet feline DragonKitty. Aria's royal parents mysteriously sail away, while a foreign prince arrives and helps heal Aria's mean girl persona, which gives her wings and the ability to fly.

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Comp: Mean Girls, Gossip Girl, Wicked                                                                           

BOTB
Romance

Novel by Sangeeta Waddhwani

After 9-11, an Indian lifestyle reporter returns home from New York to Mumbai to find herself, after dealing with the NYC one night stand culture. She gets a job as a Bollywood screenwriter and forms a deep relationship with the soulful young director of the film.

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