Michael J. Erickson – Comedy Screenwriter
Portfolio: 5 Features • 1 Pilot
Completed screenplays and pilots available upon request.
For screenplay requests or representation inquiries: mike@bloodclotfilms.com
FEATURES
HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU’RE SLEEPING
Dark Holiday Comedy / Thriller Parody – 108 Pages
Mrs. Claus, pushed to her breaking point when she discovers her abusive husband Santa has also been cheating on her with multiple elves, flees the North Pole and takes on a new identity as a bachelorette in NYC, but her new life is interrupted when she finds that her ex, aided by his Christmas magic, will not let her escape so easily.
Status: Complete • Available Upon Request
A Time to Milk
Dark Comedy – 110 Pages
After a grieving business-school graduate and his eccentric podcast-star best friend accidentally discover that dog milk is unbelievably addictive, they turn their failing farm into a booming dairy empire, inadvertently putting themselves in the crosshairs of Big Milk—a powerful cartel willing to do anything to protect its monopoly.
Status: Complete • Available Upon Request
HELL HATH NO FÜHRER
Dark Fantasy Comedy – 98 Pages
A purposeless slacker, determined to find meaning not through his life but through his death, seeks his own condemnation to Hell solely with the intention of delivering the ultimate beatdown to Adolf Hitler.
Status: Complete • Available Upon Request
The Australian Outbook
Adventure Comedy – 104 Pages
After a series of professional failures, a disheartened strongman working as an assistant in Washington DC’s Library of Congress is sent to accompany a CIA agent on a secret mission to retrieve a rare book located somewhere in the Australian Outback.
Status: Complete • Available Upon Request
Breaking Worse
Dark Comedy / Crime Comedy / Parody – 139 Pages
After a terminal diagnosis leaves him with only weeks to live, a washed-up Nobel Prize-winning candy artist partners with his dimwitted former intern to cook illegal M&Ms from a mobile lab hidden inside an ice cream truck, building a candy empire that pits them against rival dealers, the M&M Enforcement Agency, and a ruthless kingpin who refuses to let them walk away.
Status: Complete • Available Upon Request
TELEVISION
9 Thru 12
Half-Hour Comedy Pilot – 35 Pages
When an unemployed Wall Street genius drunkenly purchases a reform school and accidentally hires his softball team as the faculty, a group of wildly unqualified misfits must educate a building full of juvenile delinquents while battling a wealthy rival academy that wants them gone.
Status: Pilot Complete • Season One Outlined • Pilot Available Upon Request