Scripts
Eliot Bu writes feature screenplays built around characters under pressure — people caught inside moral dilemmas, family wounds, impossible choices, and systems larger than themselves.
The stories move across political satire, coming-of-age, psychological sci-fi, thriller, and family drama, but they share a common engine: what does a person become when the world presses too hard?
The slate includes larger-budget projects seeking producing partners and financing strategy, alongside independent features intended to be produced through 322films.
Aloha, Dear Leader!
Comedy · Feature
An exiled dictator in Hawai‘i plots a CIA-backed coup, but his teenage daughter has other plans.
Tone: Paper Moon × Burn After Reading — a sharp, absurd political comedy grounded in a wounded father-daughter relationship.
Status: Completed screenplay · Packaging and preliminary production planning underway.
Path: Seeking producing partner and strategic attachments.
49 Days in the Bardo
Adventure, Coming-of-age · Feature
When his loving mother dies, a timid 9-year-old boy must guide her spirit to the afterlife within 49 days, or he will die and she will wander the bardo forever. But his shell of a father and the controlling grandma have other plans.
Tone: E.T. meets Hunt for the Wilderpeople — an emotional adventure about grief, unlikely companionship, and finding your way home after loss.
Status: Completed screenplay
Potato Road
Psychological Family Drama · Feature
When a death implicates the family matriarch, her duty-bound son hides her dementia and rewrites the past to protect the family—only to become the guardian of the lie that has defined them.
Tone: Anatomy of a Fall meets A Separation — a restrained family drama about guilt, inherited pain, and the quiet violence of trying to become the person your family needed you to be.
Status: Completed screenplay· Packaging and development underway
Path: Intended independent production through 322films, primarily in New York’s Hudson Valley.
ALICE
Psychological Sci-Fi Drama · Feature
A scientist is recruited to decode a girl who can predict global earthquakes, only to discover the system depends on the child’s terror.
Tone: Arrival with the moral pressure of Michael Clayton — a grounded psychological sci-fi drama built around moral pressure, institutional secrecy, and one woman’s impossible choice. destroying her.
Status: Completed screenplay
In My Head
Thriller · Feature
A dutiful son develops groundbreaking technology, only to be betrayed by his best friend and imprisoned in his head as his family and business crumble before his own eyes.
Tone: Get Out meets Under the Skin — a psychological thriller about betrayal, identity, and the horror of being trapped inside yourself while the world moves on without you.
Status: Completed screenplay
Battle Under the Hotel Chelsea
Fantasy Drama · Feature
An underachieving loser must overcome his guilt and fight for redemption in the culinary underbelly of NYC.
Tone: Ratatouille meets Fight Club — a surreal culinary fantasy about self-confidence, buried shame, and the fight to believe you are more than your worst mistake.
Status: Completed screenplay
Love in the Loo
Dramedy · Short
A woman trapped by the long ladies’ room line slips into the men’s loo and finds an unlikely romance in the next stall.
Tone: When Harry Met Sally meets public-restroom farce, but played with restraint, not gross-out. The joke is not “poop is funny.” The joke is that two lonely adults find intimacy when dignity completely fails them.
Status: In development
I once believed I thought in images.
I drew obsessively, painting pictures through thousands of small pen strokes, waiting for something to reveal itself. Over time, I began to understand that the images were not the source, but the trace of something deeper: emotions trying to find a shape.
Those lines became words. The words became sentences. The sentences became scenes. The scenes began to move.
Writing, for me, is the act of following a feeling until it becomes a character, a dilemma — and finally, a story.
Select scripts are available for producers, collaborators, and industry partners.
