Thanks CraigD, I’ve been working on a new version that deals with your question. Also, I’ve been researching loglines used by the studios to describe multiple genre projects and they do tend to be quite long, from 64 words up to 140 words – maybe even more, I’ll keep looking. In my view, these lengthy loglines could better be described as Plot Summaries, so I think I may adopt this description when pitching an extra long logline in the future.

Also, contrary to popular wisdom, the studios often describe locations in their loglines. Personally, I feel describing location is essential for a single location screenplay. Many producers are after these kinds of scripts and it helps to let them know this upfront either in the actual logline or elsewhere.

If any of this is hard to swallow there’s a link to a website offering official loglines of scripts bought by the studios over the last 7 years from first-time writers. The link can be found in my previous comment to Lucius Paisley’s logline.

At the end of the day, a logline is a selling tool and as they say, “sell the sizzle, not the steak”.

So, with all this in mind, here’s my current version:

“Set in a gangland bar over a single night, the protagonist, a bounty hunter called Kalyan saves a seemingly innocent man from being murdered by an undercover cop who believes him to be a dangerous fugitive from the future. As it turns out, the man is awaiting the arrival ? from the future – of his ten-years-older self. Kalyan and the cop team up to protect him and save the world from his time-traveling older-self: a killer able to project mind-bending illusions, on a mission to create a global crime syndicate”.