Rudi O’Meara is a Black List Recommended action/adventure screenwriter based in Marin County, California. He got his start in the industry working as a junior development exec for Oscar-winning indie producer David Weisman. In his 20s, he pivoted careers and worked as an award-winning Creative Director for some of the world’s best brands. But after three back-to-back near-death experiences (blood clot, ski crash, blood clot) nearly took him out, he decided to finally listen to that voice in his head that kept asking why he wasn’t writing. Since then, he’s won or made the finals of numerous screenwriting competitions including: Roadmap Writers, ScriptPipeline, Page, Big Break, ScreenCraft, Shore Scripts, ISA, WritersXWrtiers, Filmmatic, and Outstanding Screenplays. His work tends to focus on misfits and outsiders struggling to face their mortality, fight their fears, and redefine themselves (and their tribe) in order to survive. And he sees genre as a tool for exploring taboo subjects in unexpected and arresting ways.
Projects
Bury The Lede
Two bitterly divorced war correspondents reunite to chase the story of their careers—only to discover their glamorous new spouses are trying to bury it, and them, for good.
Feature
Blood Heir
After losing their jobs to AI, a young couple relocates to rural Tuscany to renovate a crumbling one-Euro home—only to uncover the decadent noble funding the program has a very old appetite for “fresh blood.”
Feature
The Long Arc
A fractious team of American physicists and former Nazi scientists race to capture the first photo of Earth from space using salvaged Wehrmacht V-2 rocket parts—and thus redeem their own deadly wartime work.
Feature
Major
A Black cycling prodigy fights to be crowned the fastest man alive at the height of the Jim Crow era—only to discover that no amount of endurance can earn him the one thing he deserves and desires: equality.
Feature
Rejuvenation
After discovering her husband is cheating on her, a middle-aged woman follows her BFF to a remote spa promising a genetically rejuvenated self. Soon though, both women find themselves being hunted down by their younger, hotter, optimized selves.
Feature
The Untimely Demise of that Awful David Schwartzman
After the murder of their legendarily toxic boss—famed indie film producer David Schwartzman—two young, cinema-obsessed assistants find themselves caught in a tangled web of lies, criminality, and high-stakes Hollywood intrigue.
Feature
The Unanticipated Emancipation of Zebulon Pierce
A young runaway searching for his father in the wilds of 1890s Colorado finds himself drawn to a life of crime after falling in with an oddball band of misfit bandits with exceptional diction and unimpeachable style.
Feature
Independence Pass
A ragtag pack of kids head up into the mountains above Aspen, Colorado in June 1977 searching for a long-lost silver artifact—and find themselves caught up in the manhunt for escaped serial killer, Ted Bundy. Inspired by actual events.
Feature
Control-Alt-Delete
When a team of soon-to-be-downsized tech workers discover their billionaire boss is mining the world's trauma to augment his AI engine, they decide to burn the company down from the inside (with help from its reclusive founder).
TV Pilot
Yours Ever After
After the sudden death of the love of her life, a gifted but guarded AI engineer follows her haunting visions to a mysterious Silicon Valley afterlife institute—where the man she’s mourning might be very much alive.
Feature