“What if keeping the secret is the only thing keeping us alive?”
Adam J. Spencer. Writer, concept artist, worldbuilder. Some of you met me around the Library of the Lost Scrolls pilot last time. This weekend, I want to show you the other lane.
KERES THRESHOLD — 84 pages. Elevated sci-fi thriller. New Mexico, 1983.
A retired intelligence officer writes a four-line letter to his daughter — I’m sorry. I love you. Don’t go looking. Burn the study. — and puts a .38 to his head. She doesn’t burn the study. What she finds inside is a forty-year silence at the center of a classified program built to kill anyone who learns what has been watching us since before history.
Arrival meets All the President’s Men meets Annihilation. Budget range $8–15M. People in rooms confronting impossible knowledge — horror conveyed through geometry and sound, not VFX. With federal UAP disclosure expected this summer, the market for smart, character-driven NHI-contact features is wide open, and this one begins after the usual questions have already been answered.
Behind it, two more live-action features in very different lanes:
NO THRONE ROOM — contained thriller. Single POV, camouflage as engine, the kind of tension that comes from what people are willing to not see. Currently with a producer.
THE SAME HAND — prestige magical realism. Quieter register, longer reach. The one I point to when someone asks whether I can write outside genre.
And yes, PRAYPREY is still the long horizon behind all of it. Different conversation for a different day.
What I’m looking for this weekend: producers, managers, and executives who want to read KERES THRESHOLD. DM me. I’ll send the package.
Good to be back in the Lounge.
— Adam
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Amanda Toney — good to be back. Honestly, it’s a lifelong obsession with mythology, including modern myth, inspired by my own unique brushes against the unusual.
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Sound very cool! bravo
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Good to have you back Adam Spencer — and a direct ask with a project ready to go is exactly the right energy. The Lounge is a great place to start, and the Writers' Room is where a lot of those produc...
Expand commentGood to have you back Adam Spencer — and a direct ask with a project ready to go is exactly the right energy. The Lounge is a great place to start, and the Writers' Room is where a lot of those producers, managers, and executives are actively looking for new material every week. Grab a free month and get KERES THRESHOLD in front of the right people: https://www.stage32.com/writers-room/plans-vip
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Great to see you, Adam Spencer! Happy Introduce Yourself Weekend!