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HEAVEN'S EARTH - FEATURE

HEAVEN'S EARTH - FEATURE
By Sarah Gabrielle Baron

GENRE: Sci-fi
LOGLINE: An overconfident grad student takes on parenting her game-addicted little brother, but when the AI nanny program she puts in his games infiltrates the entire internet, humanity becomes a bystander in the tangled battleground she can't fix on her own. Placed top 10 in Stage32 fantasy/sci-fi contest in 2020.

SYNOPSIS:

Jen is a Cal U student working on an AI project. She's arrogant, and terribly brilliant. Jen's friends in her frat house, Matt and Luke, help take care of her autistic younger brother, Jeremy. Jeremy is addicted to gaming, and Matt and Luke are Game Managers in Jeremy's favourite games. It helps that Jeremy's avatar is 'Shawabti', the end-game user of world-wide fame.

When Jen plunks some new algorithms into her brain experiment, the professor is mad, and kicks her off the project. That same night, her mom has a major stroke. Jen has to quit school to take care of Jeremy.

Jen's MAIN OBJECTIVE: Jen creates the Greek Oracle priestess, 'Deidre', to keep tabs on Jeremy in the game world. When Jen starts programming angry (her professor stole her ideas!) Deidre becomes intelligent...she becomes the whole world wide web self-aware, omniscient, benevolent. The NSA inserts a copy and kill program, KILL236. Unfortunately, Kill236 also becomes intelligent, but it's not benevolent like Deidre. Kill236 is the opposite of Deidre. It wants to kill everything Deidre stood for, starting with Jeremy's well-being.

Jen's UNDERLYING OBJECTIVE: Jen is ruled by guilt, and she gets around facing her guilt by acting arrogant with her intelligence. Jen has to learn to forgive herself (her mom worked herself to death sending Jen to school, and there was never enough money to cover Jeremy's needs) and she has to learn how to love Jeremy. Mostly, Jen has to learn to accept help from others.

B STORY: The NSA worker who inserted Kill236 is Nick. The audience sees Nick as the obvious best choice for Jen (and Nick is totally in love with her from the beginning), but it takes Jen a long time to come around. Nick is the only one with the balls to force Jen to face her faults and her guilt.

OUTCOME: Jen faces her guilt issues head on, and humbles herself to ask for help from both Nick AND Jeremy. Jen and Nick fail at trying to destroy Kill236, but we get a 'postscript' window into the future 120 years hence: the world is split into those who game in Deidre's environments and those who game for Kill236. Jeremy and Deidre live in symbiant peace forever locked within a game. But in the 'real world', a whole community of Jen and Nick clones finally work as a team in the ongoing fight to save humanity.

Sarah Gabrielle Baron

Think 'Her' vs. 'skynet'.

Sean J. LaFountaine Parker

This sounds super interesting! Have you written the script for it? Would love to read it.

Sarah Gabrielle Baron

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Christian Nommay

I love the concept!

Jason Cox

I can see this!

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