Donavan Emery, The Android & Himself

Winner of 92 AWARDS, 9 Honorable Mentions, with an additional 109 Nominations, Finalist, and Official Selection accolades — and counting, the currently unproduced feature film screenplay "Donavan Emery, The Android & Himself" is a contemporary retelling of "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde (or better yet, "Oscar Wilde Goes Sci-Fi”), while at the same time, being far enough removed from the original source material to validate its own identity.

Set in the not-too-distant dystopian future — an enormous industrial landscape of deteriorating cities, where an unprecedented gap has formed between the poor and the super-rich, “Donavan Emery” is in and of itself, completely original.

Before revising “Donavan Emery” into the draft that it is today, I completed writing the story structure of the entire 3rd Act while at the beginning of a manic episode (at the time yet-to-be diagnosed Bipolar I), hence the purposely dramatic shift in spectacle 2/3rd's through the story. To me, it made sense back then. And somehow, it makes even more sense now.

The frequent monologues and long conversations between characters (most notably in Act I) are intentional, and also a conscious effort to pay respects to -- and capture the spirit of -- Oscar Wilde’s original story. With the correct casting, it wouldn't be considered “talky,” nor “excessive.”

It's probably the closest we'll ever get to Shakespearean Blade Runner -- if the final act was unapologetically hijacked by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

"Donavan Emery, The Android & Himself"
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