• Echo

  • Set Up
  • 2014
  • Black List
  • 77.4
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Market: Mon, 15 Dec 2014Sold: Mon, 15 Dec 2014
Producer: Shawn Levy
Executive: Dan Levine, Steve Asbell, Dan Cohen
AgentJeff Barry (ICM)
ManagerStephen Crawford (Industry)
StudioFox
Production21 Laps
A CIA drone coordinator battles his own psychological health while trying to decipher whether his wife has been replaced.
A CIA official grows increasingly paranoid that his wife is an imposter, forcing him to grapple with the possibility of a global conspiracy as obsession threatens to consume his life.
A CIA analyst has reason to believe that his wife has been replaced. He tries to find out how this has happened, who did it, and why.
A drone-operator begins to suspect that his wife has been replaced, forcing him to question his reality and the reliability of his own mind.
Film
Film, Mainstream (studio), High Concept, Character Study, Drama, Romance, Sci-fi, Thriller, Mystery, Body Swap, Conspiracy, Cloning, Cop/FBI/CIA, Espionage/Spy, Mental Illness, Mistaken Identity, Mid-life Crisis, Psychological Thriller, Accident, Criminal, Experiment, FBI, Government, Husband/Wife, Marriage, Obsession, Psychodrama, Science, Secret Identity, Secrets, Suspenseful
119
PG-13
High
M
Unspecified
35
Average
Inception, Arrival, Ex Machina, WestWorld (HBO), Her, The Machinist, Shutter Island
Present Day/Several Months
Predominantly set in urban/suburban Virginia. Streets, houses, galleries, restaurants, office buildings. CIA/FBI offices and control rooms. Act three set in Middle Eastern desert, including markets and small towns, as well as a secret military base.
BLACK AND WHITE VIDEO FOOTAGE documents ANNA NEVEN (30's) going about her daily routine. She senses that she is being followed and returns home to her husband BOB NEVEN (30's). It is revealed that Bob is the person who was following her, and is keeping an elaborate chart documenting all of her activities in a secret compartment in their garage. Voiceover Bob informs us that he is doing this to try and figure out what happened to his "real" wife, who he believes was taken from him and replaced by the "fake" Anna currently living with him. His therapist, DOCTOR CARTER (60's) asks him to recall his memories about "real" Anna, and it is in this way that we see FLASHBACKS of Anna and Bob's early relationship. They meet at a halloween party and end up going to the beach. They each create personal "symbols", which they combine to form a larger image and duplicate it in the sand. They kiss passionately and begin to fall for each other.

In the present, Bob and Anna's relationship is increasingly strained. They go to a party with her brother MAX (30's), where Anna drinks too much and they fight in public. They...