Private Project

The Last Violet

The year is 2636. The moon has split into two pieces. Part of it will crash into Earth, which will end most life on the planet. The global economy and climate are in turmoil. Many earth inhabitants have left in attempt to colonize new planets. Others are using the remaining years before it falls to fortify the chances of survival for whatever life gets left behind. We follow an episode of two brothers, one human, one robot, into that effort of salvation.

  • Rich Kern
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Short Script, Stage Play, Other
  • Genres:
    Sci-fi, artificial intelligence, nautical, future
  • Number of Pages:
    8
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Writer Biography - Rich Kern

Rich Kern is a creative writer and music producer from Chicago IL. He can be seen reading original works at art galleries. His poetry has appeared in The Miserere Review and Spire Magazine as contest winners.

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Writer Statement

The Last Violet is a stand alone episode with characters that I plan to use in larger works. It written for radio but can be performed on stage or screen as well. I wanted to show a world where AI life forms have advanced to a degree that is nearly indistinguishable from personhood. Where they have become so integrated that some humans and robots grow up as siblings , stick up for each other like siblings, envy each other like siblings, and even bicker like siblings through to the last day of the end times. We have this fear of AI in the zeitgeist right now, and I think it is useful to imagine a different future where we are past man vs machine, but it is man and machine vs X. The X is time, resources, misunderstandings, social conflicts, spiritual failings, etc.