• Star One

  • David Coggeshall
  • Set Up
  • Thriller
  • 2015
  • Hit List
  • Black List
  • 84.2
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Market: Thu, 12 Mar 2015
AgentDavid Boxerbaum, Scott Henderson, Christopher Smith (Paradigm)
ManagerNoah Rosen (Writ Large)
ProductionMythology
Described as Argo in tone, the story centers around a secret mission in which a CIA agent convinces a Tibetan scholar to sneak into Tibet to enlist the help of the Dalai Lama to keep communism from taking over the continent of Asia.
An anthropologist specializing in Central Asia is recruited by the CIA to convince the Dalai Lama to fight the invading Chinese communists.
A CIA agent and an anthropologist venture through a war-torn Southeast Asia to prevent Tibet from being taken over by Communist forces.
An ex-CIA operative is coerced unto a mission to travel into Tibet and convince the Dalai Lama to accept help from the US in the war against communism.
Film
Film, High Concept, Action, Adventure, War, Cop/FBI/CIA, Espionage/Spy, Dramedy, Travel, Foreign Locale, Historical, Chase, CIA, Guns, Journey, Rural, Suspenseful
107
PG-13
Ultra High
M
Unspecified
29
Average
Argo, Seven Years in Tibet, Zero Dark Thirty, Bridge of Spies
1949, About a Month
Central Asian landscape, office in CIA headquarters, Mongolian yurts, destroyed American consulate, nomad camp, medical camp, Russian consulate, Dalai Lama's temple
DOUGLAS MACKIERNAN (30s) watches a Russian nuclear test, snapping a photo.

As news of Russia's nuclear bombs reaches the United States, CIA analyst NATE FELLOWS (29) explains to the director of the CIA, WALTER BEDELL SMITH (50s) that China is going to invade Tibet.

In Mongolia, FRANK BESSAC (29) is called into council with local royalty, PRINCE DE (40). Encouraged by KGB elite, MARKO DUROV (40s), a Mongolian man, TUKA (40s), storms the council, killing everyone and chasing Frank.

As Frank attempts to board a plane, he is rescued by MacKiernan who reveals that he and Frank are both CIA and that Frank is being reactivated.

Reluctantly, Frank travels with MacKiernan to the American consulate in China. Inside the consulate, they retrieve guns and gold, burn sensitive material, and meet up with Russian dissidents VASILI SVANSOV (41) and LEO SVANSOV (13). They burn the building and escape. As they drive south, MacKiernan reveals to Frank what the mission is.

They come across a roadblock guarded by Chinese communist soldiers. MacKiernan kills one and stuffs him into the trunk and they drive through the checkpoint.

Back at the consulate, Marko searches the remains with his assistant DIMA (27). They learn the MacKiernan was the spy who took...