The Heist Generation

Co-Written By Adam Rubin & Keri Johnson

Feature Heist Screenplay

A group of social-media outcasts who stage fake livestream heists as social commentary are manipulated into committing a real bank robbery—only to learn the crime itself is being secretly live-streamed to a massive audience, disguising an even more audacious heist.

 

Fortunate Son

Co-Written By Adam Rubin & Matt Baxter

Completed Feature Screenplay

East of Eden for the social-media age — a teenage American coming-of-age drama where brotherhood, first love, and moral rivalry collide under the same forces of exposure and validation that define The Social Network.

 

Used Books

Co-Written with Kuros Charney

Feature Dramatic Screenplay

In development with Citizen Skull Productions.

Assigned to work off a mistake in a Greenwich Village used bookstore, Billy, a smart, but hot-headed Brooklyn thug is shocked to learn his reserved Black British boss, Alfred, is a retired master criminal— and recruits him for a final heist that will test loyalty and survival in modern New York.

 

Before The Lights Go Out

Co-Written by Adam Rubin & Steve Weisgal

Hitchcockian Thriller Screenplay

An ex-boxer, recently released from prison for the murder of his wife, searches for his missing son before his failing eyesight goes dark. Hired to tail a woman suspected of theft, he’s pulled into a spiral of violence and love that leads him to his son—and the truth about who really killed his wife. 

 

Into the Stone Age

Written By Adam Rubin 

Completed Feature Screenplay

A dramatized account of Michael Rockefeller’s disappearance in 1961 New Guinea — about a young man who had everything yet could only discover who he was by going to one of the most remote places on earth — where a journey of awakening becomes an adventure, a love story, and a psychological descent into the unknown.

 

Connection

Co-Written By Adam Rubin & Keri Johnson

Completed Feature Screenplay

When an alien being, who has secretly lived on Earth for decades, emerges to investigate a mysterious broadcast, he crosses paths with a grieving linguist whose experimental communication device sends them on an uplifting, on-the-run journey—one that reunites the scientist with his wife and daughter and helps the alien find a way home.