Barry Mendel

Critical reading and script analysis. Creative discussions and brainstorming sessions. Writing and editorial work on various projects.

Assistant duties include phones, scheduling, and travel.

Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan have been tapped to star in The Big Sick. The film written by Nanjiani and his wife Emily V. Gordon tells the story of the relationship challenges faced by a Pakistani man and his American girlfriend.

A Pakistani-born man and his girlfriend face challenges from their relationship.

Logline: Kept under wraps but will be set in the world of obsessive female football fans.

Logline: A woman who spent her childhood being drilled that monogamy is unrealistic by her depressed father, finds her “forever single” lifestyle threatened when she starts to fall for a successful sports doctor.

Logline: Pete and Debbie deal with the consequences of turning 40.

Logline: Follows a young woman who escapes from a psychiatric ward and chases her dreams of becoming a singer.

Logline: When Annie, a simple Midwestern girl is asked to be her best friend Lillian’s maid of honor, she struggles to please the snobby, rich bridesmaids at every pre-wedding event.

An unnamed British agent leaves his job and tries to leave the country only to be kidnapped and imprisoned in a mysterious village where the residents are monitored and killed or recaptured if they try to escape.

Logline: When a train derails and crashes into John Skillpa’s backyard his once quiet and secret life is put on display.