Echo

Logline:
In a world abandoned for neural sleep, a lone wanderer finds a woman guarding an artifact with echoes of lives he never lived — triggering a chain of memory and recursion that could decide the fate of existence.

Synopsis:
Echo is the third installment of the Collective Unknown anthology, yet designed to stand on its own, exploring buried memory and the artifacts we leave behind. Though it exists within a larger narrative (preceded by Moonshot and Oceandrop), it serves as both a complete story and the emotional core of the series, offering a visual and tonal blueprint for the larger anthology or feature adaption.

Set in the distant future on a broken version of Earth after humanity's retreat into an AI-induced dream-state, Echo follows Neil Armstrong, a man cataloging ruins as he clings to the real world. But when he discovers a buried artifact — a structure that somehow knows him — he’s pulled into a recursive mystery seeded by versions of himself he’s never met.

As reality shifts and memory stirs, Echo becomes a haunting exploration of identity, sacrifice, and what remains when the future forgets its past. And why remembering may be the only way to wake up a dying humanity.

  • Michael H. Moore
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Sci-Fi, Drama, Psychological Thriller
  • Number of Pages:
    26
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Writer Biography - Michael H. Moore

Michael Moore began writing in May 2025, having now completed 9 original short scripts in five months. His debut shorts have earned close to a 70% placement rate and 33% finalist/win rate across all submissions, with 8 festivals recognizing multiple scripts in the same competition. Notable recognitions include FilmQuest (Semi-Finalist; Quarter-Finalist), Flickers' Rhode Island (RIIFF) (2x Semi-Finalist), DIFF-Storyline (DaVinci Writers' Corner) (2x Finalist; 1 Semi-Finalist), HorrorFest International (Semi-Finalist), Glendale International Film Festival (2x Finalist), Vancouver Horror Show (Semi-Finalist; Quarter-Finalist), Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards (Semi-Finalist), and Wins at Austin After Dark (2x), The New York Sci-Fi and Horror Festival and Zepstone International.

Collective Unknown is his anthology featuring emotionally resonant short scripts that explore buried memory, recursion, and the hidden artifacts that echo across time. It blends sci-fi with dark comedy and psychological tension, with philosophical undercurrents — at times reimagining mythologized events in uncanny new lights.

Affect Protocol is the second anthology series in development, forcing us to confront whether emotion and empathy are more beneficial or threatening in a world built on systematic and technological control. Identity, class systems, and weaponization or erasure of feeling all get examined through vastly different sci-fi landscapes.

Wrench Kings is his original long form grounded sci-fi series in development. It's set in a post-automation future ruled by labor/working class guilds rather than wealth, exploring a world rebuilt by the very people society once discarded — scavengers, machinists, growers, healers, and builders — after artificial intelligence failed the former ruling class.

As a newer voice in this space, his goal is to share work that engages both thoughtful genre audiences and industry professionals looking for fresh, emotionally intelligent storytelling.

Drawing from lived experience and thematic curiosity, Michael’s work interrogates what it means to stay human, and what or who decides. His stories are cinematic, layered, and emotionally restrained — designed to linger long after the final frame.

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Writer Statement

I write to explore the systems dictating our lives, whether shaped by nature or humanity. Our world's contradictions, values, unknowns…and quiet horrors. If a work leaves you unsettled or questioning what it means to be human, it's doing its job.

As a newer voice in this space, my goal is to share work that engages both thoughtful genre audiences and industry professionals looking for fresh, emotionally intelligent storytelling.