When a 50-foot-tall Maine moose destroys forests and attacks people, biologist Dan Gellerston must confront dark secrets from his past to find a way to stop the monster.

Glad you like the concept, bryson. The genre I am hoping for is horror, sci-fi, thriller or possibly horror, sci-fi, mystery.

Thanks, timmyelliot, for bringing up the possibility of developing this screenplay as a 50's era creature feature. I have rejected that idea for now but would be open to looking at this idea again. The movies that have influenced me all have a creature but the tone is more serious. Specifically, the Korean film The Host and the original Japanese version of Godzilla. Although the Godzilla suit is silly by today's standards, the director intended the original Godzilla to be a serious exploration of the consequences of nuclear testing. The theme of this screenplay is the unintended consequences of exploitation. I thought this might be a bit too weighty a topic for a more tongue-in-cheek approach to the creature.

Conflict: Richiev, your word edits are greatly appreciated. You guessed, quite correctly, that it is the protagonist's past associations with a lab that represent the dark secrets in the logline. As a university student, the protagonist has a romantic relationship with a female student as they work together on a growth experiment. He abandons her when their relationship no longer benefits him and she leans on an unethical college professor for support. The professor steals the growth experiment idea and sells it to a corporation that exploits it for profit. The experiment goes wrong and a 50-foot rampaging moose is the result.