CINEMATICS & SCREENPLAYS
ELECTRIC BLOOD
What even is cyberpunk now? Mostly an aesthetic. I wanted to tap into it for its themes. I'm drawn to this idea of a near-future imperfect, not-quite dystopia, where there's fantastic technology but as Gibson says 'it's not evenly distributed.' I want to write about people who are overlooked by society. In this case, if we’re going to have a self-driving cars -- someone is going to have the shit job of cleaning them.
It's speculative fiction, but on a human-scale. I find writing at that scale is a good place to explore character. In this case two brothers who react very differently when they get in over their head. That said, it’s also got a femme fatale, a fight scene, and some zappy-zappy too.
THIS IS SOMAVISION!
30 Rock meets The Regime in Somavision! A top TV producer gets recruited into creating a soap opera for a remote dictatorship. Now he has to survive corrupt bureaucrats, deadly revolutionaries, and worst of all, newly-minted celebrities, just to get the program to air and escape with his life. But when he finds out that absolute power lets him make the show of his dreams, will he want to?
This was definitely inspired in part by real live events like the kidnapping of Shin Sang-ok by North Korea as well as playing too much Half Life 2…
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FUTURE NOW
Future Now dramatizes hypothetical science questions raised by the hit show, WHAT IF, the internet’s most-watched science & technology series. Each webisode is based on expert predictions from science and technology fields. I wrote the pilot script for this series, Shattered Coast, which earned Xenophile a $250K grant.
MOmMy and Z
Josh and Leslie were struggling with parenting before the Z-Virus turned everyone in their neighbourhood WITHOUT a kid under 5 into a zombie! And now in the New Playground Order - they’re about to learn - hell is other parents! Can they learn to put their differences aside to take care of their little one, and escape withe lives?
A series pitch for anyone who has ever been turned into a zombie from parenting.
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