• Boy

  • Mattson Tomlin
  • Set Up
  • Produced
  • 2015
  • Hit List
  • Black List
  • 72.9
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Market: Mon, 01 Jun 2015Sold: Thu, 12 May 2016
Actor: Noomi Rapace
Director: Jonas Arnby
Producer: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Ben Pugh, Leon Clarance
ManagerZac Frognowski (Grandview)
AgentIda Ziniti, Jay Baker, Pete Stein (CAA)
ProductionAutomatik, 42
FinancierMotion Picture Capital
Sales AgentLotus
A teenage boy is born with special abilities and spends his childhood switching names and cities in orderto keep his identity hidden. When he loses control and accidentally kills his father, he and his mother haveto go on the run
After a son with special powers accidentally kills his father, him and his mother go on the run from the police and a special government agency interested in the boy's powers.
After losing control of his supernatural powers and accidently killing his father, a boy has to run from the police and government with his mother and seek protection with a dubious team of activists.
A mother and her child with mysterious abilities will have to escape the US, evading government agents and other groups who want to hurt the boy.
Film
Action, Drama, Sci-fi, Supernatural, Cop/FBI/CIA, Teen, Troubled Youth, Survival, Agent, DNA, Government, Mother, Mother/Son, Outsider, Son
116
PG-13
High
M
White / European
16
Average
Percy Jackson and The Olympians, I Am Number Four, Midnight Special, Chronicle, Children of Men
2016; A weekend,
High School, gas station, farmhouse, suburban home, cabin, woods, a bank, mansion, police interview room, examination room, ferry, Ihop, highways, streets, country road, Goodwill, summer house, underground bunker, motel, corporate facility
MICHAEL MADNICK (16) is invited to a party by his girlfriend ANDREA (16). He's not sure he can make it because his parents won't let him. He is also invited to be part of the football team, but the same applies. At her day job in the bank, MARLA MADNICK watches a news report about the ander-humans, a new type of genetic mutated people with super abilities. The body of a teenage ander-human is hanging lifeless in a riot.

At night, Mike talks to Marla and SCOTT MADNICK about football and they quickly tell him no, it's too dangerous for him. At night, Marla wakes up to check on Mike and finds his bedroom empty. Scott and her go to Ross' house where a teenage party is taking place. They find Michael and bring him home, embarrassing him in front of everybody.

Michael and his parents get into a heated argument about how he wants to be normal and he is reminded constantly by Scott that he isn't. Losing his temper, Mike starts unleashing his supernatural ability and the house shakes. Suddenly, Scott starts choking and falling to the floor under an unseen pressure. He's dead. Marla steps in and hugs Mike,...