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Endurance
- Dalton Leeb & Nicholas Jacobson-Larson
- Set Up
- No Manager
- Sci-Fi
- 2020
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Market: Tue, 04 Feb 2020Sold: Thu, 13 Feb 2020
Producer: Simon Kinberg
Agent (CAA)
StudioNetflix (Netflix purchased in six-figure deal.)
ProductionGenre Films
2-2020 - The package garnered multiple bids, with the deal, struck Friday night, almost hitting seven figures, a massive payday for the newbie writers.
Producer: Simon Kinberg
Agent (CAA)
StudioNetflix (Netflix purchased in six-figure deal.)
ProductionGenre Films
2-2020 - The package garnered multiple bids, with the deal, struck Friday night, almost hitting seven figures, a massive payday for the newbie writers.
Story details are being kept under wraps, but described as an original concept with franchise potential and centering on a strong female lead.
After being stranded on Mars for more than 60 years in a feudal society, a slave robot’s life is changed when she must protect an unexpected visitor that is a human astronaut.
A humanoid Valkyrie robot sent to Mars sixty years ago learns about humanity from a clever NASA engineer as they work to save the other human crew members by fighting off the authoritative Aesir robots who have unfairly been controlling the lives of the Valkyries.
Film
Film, Mainstream (studio), High Concept, Female Protagonist, Action, Adventure, Sci-fi, Apocalyptic, Futuristic, Rescue, Philosophical, Foreign Locale, Survival, Battle, Betrayal, CGI, Contemplative, Death, Experiment, Female, Franchise, Friends/Friendship, Heartwarming, Identity, Robot, Space/Outer Space, Suspenseful, Technology, Violence/Violent
121
PG-13
Ultra High
F
Other
NA
Fit
"Ex Machina," "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", "Ben-Hur", "Spartacus", "A Bug's Life", "The Martian"
Begins in a seeming present-day world. Then flashes forward sixty years to a futuristic Mars.
10% on Earth, primarily in an Amphitheater with a Backstage Area, but also featuring a lab, a launch site, and a home with large windows.
10% Aboard two space ships - the Frontier and the Endurance. Includes an Escape Pod.
Primarily takes place on Mars, in a vast Desert, outside and inside the looming Wall (headquarters for antagonists) with dark hallways, a lab, and various other furturistic rooms, and in Six's Cave. Other Mars locations include underground tunnels, craters or crater edges, a Winding Canyon, and several cliffsides or hillsides.
A humanoid robot named Valkyrie-Six (“Six”) and Aesir-Theta (“Theta”) are presented to a crowd as the robots who will travel to Mars and make it habitable for humankind.
SAVERIN (20s), the creator, takes a picture with Six and gives it to her. She squeezes her shoulder. Motherly. Six feels a connection, but does not understand it.
Just as the ship - Endurance - is about to launch, Six feels something similar to fear. 100 Valkyries and 12 Aesirs launch into the sky.
Sixty years later.
SIX (scuffed, faded) digs in an underground tunnel. She finally finds solid ice. With 6% power, she drags the ice right past a graveyard of broken and powered-down Valkyries.
At the Wall, Six joins other valkyries in line. Trades her ice to the authoritative Aesir-Rho.
Six returns to her cave, collecting scrap pieces along the way. She adds them to a sculpture. Holds her photo. She’s recreating Saverin.
The next day, a Valkyrie steals her ice, desperate to survive. But it powers down.
Six receives less power than the previous day. Unfair. She’s furious, but is beaten down by THETA (strong, ruler). Valkyries cower at his presence. Theta delivers a speech. Humans are betrayers.
Six is...
SAVERIN (20s), the creator, takes a picture with Six and gives it to her. She squeezes her shoulder. Motherly. Six feels a connection, but does not understand it.
Just as the ship - Endurance - is about to launch, Six feels something similar to fear. 100 Valkyries and 12 Aesirs launch into the sky.
Sixty years later.
SIX (scuffed, faded) digs in an underground tunnel. She finally finds solid ice. With 6% power, she drags the ice right past a graveyard of broken and powered-down Valkyries.
At the Wall, Six joins other valkyries in line. Trades her ice to the authoritative Aesir-Rho.
Six returns to her cave, collecting scrap pieces along the way. She adds them to a sculpture. Holds her photo. She’s recreating Saverin.
The next day, a Valkyrie steals her ice, desperate to survive. But it powers down.
Six receives less power than the previous day. Unfair. She’s furious, but is beaten down by THETA (strong, ruler). Valkyries cower at his presence. Theta delivers a speech. Humans are betrayers.
Six is...