• Visions of Jonah

  • Ian Corson
  • Available
  • No Agent
  • 2015
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Market: Tue, 24 Feb 2015
ManagerJeff Portnoy (Heretic Literary Management)
With no recollection of who he is and tormented by impulses, a man drifts to certain places and discovers space objects that reveal his purpose on earth. Pitched as Starman meets The Fugitive.
A Man slowly regains his memory after suffering from amnesia caused by an unknown wreck, but the more he learns about himself the more he realizes he is no man of earth.
A man crash lands on Earth without any recollection of his past, and only with the help of his psychiatrist and eventual wife, is he able to return to the land where he came from.
With no recollection of who he is and tormented by impulses, a man drifts to certain places and discovers space objects that reveal his purpose on earth.
Film
Film, Action, Sci-fi, Thriller, Alien, Cop/FBI/CIA, Murder, Accident, Chase, Cop, Husband/Wife, Identity, Outsider
105
R
Ultra High
M
Unspecified
28
Average
Starman, The Day the Earth Stood Still, KPAX
Present; Over seven months.
A hospital, Arizona desert, Air Force base, a coffee shop, Lima - Peru ruins, suburban home, solitary motel, train tracks, cars, country club, office building, airport, New York City, auction hall, airplane, a mansion, missile silo, retirement home
What appears to be a meteor approaches Earth at a dangerous speed and way close to Las Vegas. Operators at the Norad Command Center quickly bring it down, attacking it with a missile.

At the Air Force base hospital, a man without identity and a friend are brought in, both badly hurt. As one is rolled in in critical conditions, the other escapes into the desert. The unidentified man recovers, but has lost his memory. SARAH DAVIS (mid 30s), his doctor, takes him into her house and they quickly get romantically involved. The man picks the name JONAH (late 20s) to go by and starts building a new life with Sarah. They get married within six months.

While that, special agent ROBERT MACKEY (30s), analyzes the remains of the meteor that was shot down. It clearly isn’t a meteor, rather something metallic. Footsteps surround the scene, suggesting someone had already being there before.Jonah starts having strange impulses. One night, he wanders off into the desert, in forbidding military space. Sarah follows him curiously. There, they dig up a cylinder. A soldier intercepts them, but since Sarah works for the hospital, he lets them go. They take the mysterious...