Bill Lae Screenplays and Scripts

Ghost meets The 40 Year Old Virgin, but the Ghost is Gay and the Virgin is 25!

After an entanglement curse is invoked, a gay ghost must help a pipsqueak, straight young man lose his virginity and “live life,” and the virgin must help the ghost uncover and bring to justice his diabolically dangerous and secretly powerful murderer before the innocent gardener accused of the crime is executed in three days.

There's a little Cyrano de Bergerac with I LOVE YOU MAN and a lot of The Odd Couple --if Oscar was more of an Abner and Felix was Gay, dead, and just would not go away.

The only way for pip-squeak, Steven, to get rid of the ghost, Marcus, is to solve his murder. In return Marcus must help Steven "solve his life"--get a girl and get laid. It's a buddy comedy with life, death, and masculinity at stake.

After trying everything from the Gym to pills, Steven invokes a spell to become more of a man, but he accidentally conjures up a man: Marcus (although Marcus isn't exactly Steven's idea of Manly). Marcus is gay. He was murdered in the guest house Steven now rents. They must help each other to break the curse or they will move from being tethered in life to being isolated in death, banished to the astral plane between heaven and hell. Marcus, who was a match-maker in life, helps Steven with his relationship woes. Steven helps Marcus keep the innocent gardener from being executed by Sunday, midnight.

In order to kill two birds with one stone, Marcus sends Steven on a date with Wendy, a detective who wants to believe in supernatural activity. Things get really complicated, if not cursed, when Marcus's widow (whom he married for a business arrangement) turns out to be much more than he ever expected. In the end, they must solve problems bigger than murder or virginity. Manhood isn't about the stereotypical conquests that most men seem to believe it is. Both love and life are not skin deep nor a matter of the flesh.

Bill Nye the Science Guy meets The X-Files, if Scully & Mulder were like the wacky crew from Tremors.

A TV “Science Guy” who scoffs all alien visitation theories is falsely accused of kidnapping a child, and he must blame it on an alien abduction so he can join forces with the kooks he detests to find the missing boy and unravel the UFO events in a small town, all before a mercenary company secretly gets away with exploiting the very real extraterrestrials.

Guy Trundel, a part-time news plane pilot and crop duster, becomes the on-air “Science Guy” for a small town in New Mexico. Guy’s a genius at “all things head” but a failure at anything dealing with matters of the heart, trust, or compassion. He's not just a cynic but bona-fide scoffer when it comes to anything extraterrestrial, especially in the “alien visitation” department. Who can blame him? His father's been chasing after aliens and looking for Guy's mother ever since she disappeared over twenty years ago.

Guy befriends an orphan from a nearby foster group home, and, when the boy turns up missing, the local sheriff, a close encounter believer belittled by Guy, is all too eager to arrest Guy for the kidnapping. Although Guy doesn't believe there's even flimsy evidence that earth is being visited, he blames the abduction on aliens so that he can remain free to find the boy. He joins forces with a local TV personality who investigates alien abductions, a conspiracy theorist, his wacky father, and assorted believers and kooks to unravel the mysteries surrounding the town's abduction events and U.F.O. sightings. Once he discovers the truth, he's up against a mercenary technology group, and he must stop them before they get away with deception, exploitation, and murder.

Star Trek meets Real Time with Bill Maher

The most famous star ship in all history, past, present, AND future, suddenly experiences a time rift. The advanced, desegregated, peaceful universe that they know starts to slip into a dystopian nightmare. Someone has gone back in time and breached the temporal prime directive, but who? What happened early in the twenty first century to ruin the universe for everybody? Now, the crew has minutes to unravel the chain of events and go back and fix things before the Romulican Empire (yes, it's a merger) sets in place forever.

Superman meets Spinal Tap

What if there really was a man who could fly? What if there really was a Super Hero? What if he didn’t grow up in the best of families? What happens after the parades? “SuperGuy: Behind the Cape” takes the viewer behind the scenes and into the life and times of SuperGuy, AKA: Mark Trent. He’s super strong and can fly, but even those powers have their limits and cannot save him from his messed-up family nor the vicious public.

We get a glimpse at his personal life and take a long, hard, unforgiving look at society’s reaction to this phenomenon. SuperGuy is not perfect, cannot live up to expectations, and can't seem to catch a break. From being compared to Superman to not being able to be everywhere and save everybody, his life becomes a super mess. His only true arch enemies turn out to be his dysfunctional family and the American Public as they all but crucify him for “Doing Good.”

In a world that desperately wants to believe in something, in a world that desperately wants to look up to someone, in a world full of despair, victims, and wackos, he fits right in. Behold, the man of plastic. You will believe a man can fall.

The results if Superman were raised by a dysfunctional family and in our material, victim-minded society

Pilot Episode written for Paramount Television.

Webisodes later written.