The writers' room is open
Season One
Four stories from Tony the Maverick: SCANDALONE Season One, Zealot, Magdalene and Barabbas, and Sons of Thunder in development. Written and made by Black and brown writers and filmmakers. The room is open for episodes.
Start here
Watch the first five minutes of SCANDALONE
Episode one, Zealot. Saul of Tarsus hunts the people of the Way, and the nightmares start. This is the tone, the look and the world every pitch lives in. Epic period drama, rated R, shot like an epic.
Every story in this room already has a canon, a world and a look. What it needs now is episodes from writers who read Scripture closely and write people honestly.See open roles →
- Stories on the slate
- 4
- Lanes: The first season, In development
- 2
- Pitches in the room
- 0
Stories on the slate
Lanes: The first season, In development
Pitches in the room
The slate
Four stories, 2 lanes
SCANDALONE is Season One. Sons of Thunder is in development in the same world, with the same Jesus, the same Herod and the same tax master. Writers pitch inside the canon.
The first season
Three episodes, three people Scripture should have counted out. Each one is rated R, shot like an epic, and streaming now in the Parable House app.
In development
The next stories in the same world, with the same Jesus, the same Herod and the same tax master. The room helps break them.
Epic drama · Episode 1 · streaming
Zealot
Before he was Paul, he was Saul of Tarsus: a tentmaker's son, a soldier, and the most feared hunter of the people of the Way. He watches Stephen stoned in the street and smiles. Then the nightmares come, and every one of them ends on the same snowy road to Damascus.
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Epic drama · Episode 2 · streaming
Magdalene
In a fishing town on the water, squeezed by Herod's tax master, a woman from the red-curtain district walks into a rich man's dinner carrying an alabaster jar. Half the men at that table already know her scent. When she breaks the jar at the feet of the teacher, nobody in the room can pretend anymore.
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Epic drama · Episode 3 · streaming
Barabbas
The night Jesus is born, another boy named Yeshua is born upstairs in the same inn. His mother calls him son of the father: Bar-Abbas. Raised in Herod's fighting pits beside his twin, Judas, he grows into the name a crowd will one day scream instead of Jesus.
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Pitch a new story
Have a story from Scripture that belongs in Parable House? Pitch a new episode or a new series. The best ones flip a story everyone thinks they know.
Trailers
The cuts so far
Watch these before you write. They set the tone and the look for each episode.
How it works
How pitching works
- 01
Choose a story
Watch the first five minutes and read the story's canon and characters.
- 02
Submit a pitch
A title, a logline, your beats and your ending.
- 03
Get notes
Writers in the room read pitches, vote and leave notes.
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Pick-up
The showrunner picks up the strongest pitches and contacts the writer directly.
Join the room
Three ways in
Writers build the scripts while creators and talent build the world around them. Every week, the room meets live with the showrunner.
Writers
Pitch episodes, break story in the weekly live room, and write drafts in a mini-room.
Apply as a writer →Creators
Cut trailers, build key art and screen tests from studio briefs, and earn on views with bounties.
Apply as a creator →Talent
The slate is casting now. Apply, then audition with a self-tape for the roles you're right for.
Apply as talent →FAQ
Questions
Anyone. The room was built for Black and brown writers and filmmakers, and everyone is welcome to read and give notes.