Flashbang

Genre: High-Concept Tech Thriller

Setting: Contemporary Los Angeles

Awards: Semifinalist, ISA Emerging Screenwriters Competition

Target Audience: Adults 18-49, fans of urban thrillers, tech paranoia, antihero stories, surveillance thrillers, and morally complex crime films

Comps: Nightcrawler (Los Angeles antihero intensity), Mr. Robot (tech paranoia and rebellion), Enemy of the State (surveillance thriller mechanics)

Logline: When a Banksy-style vigilante art crew uses weaponized camera flashes to expose corrupt elites, a tech mogul tricks them into stealing the source code for the city’s facial-recognition grid, forcing them to turn their own blinding technology against him before he takes control of Los Angeles.