{"title":"LEOM","alternateTitle":"The Year of LEOM","format":"Feature film. Film 1 of a planned trilogy.","genre":["Science fiction","Adventure","Grounded sci-fi","Sports"],"tone":"Grounded adventure with a competence spine. Optimistic in outlook, real stakes; not a utopia.","logline":"In a golden age with nothing left to need, a young Neolax crew and a burned-out auditor uncover a corporate plot to close space travel to everyone, via a dangerous false flag.","synopsis":"Humanity solved abundance and found peace, and stalled. The gates that remain are technological, and behind the celebrations, someone wants those gates kept shut. LEOM follows a small crew who decide the frontier belongs to everyone, and go get their piece of it: a high-flying, gut-dropping adventure filled with heart, embracing hardship as fuel, a new band of brothers and sisters racing against time to make the world an even better place. Adventure and discovery for all, out amongst the stars.","positioning":"Industrial and engineering culture, garage builders, moto and outdoors and athletics, people who use AI as a tool and are not replaced by it. A world that has solved abundance and found that space is still not for everyone: the growing pains come first, and that is the story.","comps":[{"title":"The Martian","why":"engineering as drama; competence under pressure"},{"title":"Apollo 13","why":"problem-solving as the action; a crew and a control room"},{"title":"Chronicle","why":"first-person crew footage; proof that scale lives in the idea, not the spend"},{"title":"District 9","why":"a fully realized world on a disciplined budget"},{"title":"Free Solo, The Dawn Wall, Red Bull Media House","why":"the moto-outdoors-athletics culture the crew comes from, and the brand lane it opens"},{"title":"For All Mankind","why":"optimistic frontier with politics and cost"}],"method":{"summary":"Written first. Story bible, treatment, 195-shot storyboard, and animatic came before a frame existed. The trailer's picture is fully generative from the written board (Veo, Kling, Seedance, Runway models via fal.ai), audio captured practically, every frame selected against its drawn board by a person. A live-action shoot with practical stunt rigging was planned and cancelled one day before principal photography when coverage could not bind in time; the method survived the pivot.","costStory":"The generative-plus-practical pipeline gives a clear cost per finished minute and a schedule that does not depend on stage days. Practical elements (costume, props, the jetpack, audio) are built; worlds are generated to the board. Costume parts are 3D-printed, which is also the start of the props-become-products lane.","budgetTier":"Positioned for the production tier the competition's production partner names (up to $15M). The method is built to come in under it."},"status":{"trailer":"Submitted to the Future Vision XPRIZE on August 15, 2026; receipt confirmed.","treatment":"Cover sheet and treatment submitted alongside (public Google Doc).","screenplay":"Film 1 feature screenplay in progress.","next":"Screenplay, official score and track list, a short episode recap, a novel, a sequel treatment."},"rights":{"owner":"Growth Advisory LLC, Phoenix, Arizona. Original IP.","contributors":"All contributors under work-for-hire terms.","music":"No encumbered music in the cut. The writing playlist on the site is commercial music the story was written to; it is not the film's score.","generated":"Generated assets produced under model terms that permit commercial use; selection and direction by the filmmaker.","union":"No guild signatory status required at submission stage; post-award production would be handled with the producing partner."},"attached":["Garrett Sullivan: writer, director, producer. Writer first. Open to pairing with an established director if a producing partner wants it; the writing is the thing being protected. Based in Phoenix, Arizona; willing to relocate for development and production."],"seeking":["Producing and financing partner for Film 1.","Cast for the crew leads and the auditor.","Brand partners in the moto, outdoor, and gear lanes (integration and co-financing).","Composer for the official score."],"audience":["Builders and engineers: garage, maker, and industrial culture; competence as entertainment.","Moto, outdoors, and action-sports audiences: the crew's culture is dirt-bike and backcountry before it is space.","Sports audiences: the Neolax is a sport with rules, teams, a pro track, and a kit.","Optimistic-future audiences the competition is built around: the future works, and the film argues about who gets to go.","Global: a trilingual title treatment, a sport, and visitors from elsewhere travel without translation."],"franchise":["Trilogy: Film 1 is a complete story with two films planned after.","The Neolax: a sport that can be played, watched, and gamed; kit and jetpack as products.","A world with a port network: places to return to in sequels, series, and games.","Props become products: the costume parts and jetpack are already physical, 3D-printed objects."],"world":[{"term":"The Year of LEOM","def":"A planet at peace, mid-celebration; a society in a holding pattern of abundance and anticipation for the stars."},{"term":"The Quantum Aliens","def":"Non-humanoid visitors who scaled themselves to us and granted lightspeed."},{"term":"Unfold a black hole","def":"Travel, folded open at will. Lightspeed gets you to port; the fold takes you everywhere else."},{"term":"Ships and ports","def":"A port network reaching the near stars, built outward from Earth."},{"term":"The Neolax","def":"The sport of jetpacks and scythe-staffs, played in the air. Jetpacking quidditch, of sorts."},{"term":"Telepresence booths","def":"Step into a booth, operate off-world."},{"term":"The Chipheads","def":"The ones who gave the wheel away: the intelligence that withdrew and left people their agency."},{"term":"The Capital","def":"Where the frontier gets gated."},{"term":"The Elder's Village","def":"Balance, taught in stillness."},{"term":"Savage Spacesuits","def":"3D-printed pressure suits, assembled by the costume department."}],"contact":{"name":"Garrett Sullivan","email":"gbsullivan@mac.com","altEmail":"garrett@growthadvisory.ai","location":"Phoenix, Arizona","company":"Growth Advisory LLC","companyUrl":"https://growthadvisory.ai"},"links":{"site":"https://leomfilm.com","trailer":"https://youtu.be/uU6aY6L6yQQ","treatment":"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k3e9T6oUdhJ09cWmFPOH3iSSpmHHaedY-FzHEGaxIuk/edit?usp=sharing","channel":"https://www.youtube.com/@Garrett-Sullivan","competition":"https://futurevisionxprize.com","faq":"https://leomfilm.com/faq","log":"https://leomfilm.com/log","about":"https://leomfilm.com/about","characters":"https://leomfilm.com/characters","package":"https://leomfilm.com/package","llmsFull":"https://leomfilm.com/llms-full.txt","packageJson":"https://leomfilm.com/package.json","skill":"https://leomfilm.com/SKILL.md","series":"https://leomfilm.com/series","seriesJson":"https://leomfilm.com/series.json"},"characters":[{"name":"John An","role":"The protagonist. A junior flyer with a homemade father-son jetpack.","age":"18 to 19","type":"Ordinary, slim, athletic. Asian. Not a chosen one; a kid who keeps showing up.","arc":"Starts in a garage with a pack he and his father built, qualifies into a crew that is out of his league, and becomes the one who decides the frontier belongs to everyone.","actor":"A physical, mostly wordless lead: the performance is in flight, in the hands, in how he carries a loss. The role ages forward in the frame.","lead":true},{"name":"Linda Claire","role":"Co-protagonist. The team's systems engineer.","age":"Late teens to early twenties","type":"Compact, capable, an engineer's physicality. White, freckled, practical bun. Grounded, not glamorous.","arc":"The one who fixes what the others break and sees the pattern in the plot before anyone believes her. Carries the telepresence and repair beats; earns the crew's trust by being right under pressure.","actor":"The competence role. Big hands-on set pieces (hull repair, EVA, a remote body) and the film's clearest mind.","lead":true},{"name":"Deckard","role":"The burned-out auditor. The oldest flyer in the crew.","age":"Thirties to forties","type":"Grizzled, ordinary, less conventionally attractive. Worn but intact. The adult in the room who stopped believing.","arc":"An audit that should have been routine pulls him into the crew and into the plot to close the door. He is the film's point of view on what abundance costs and who pays.","actor":"The actor's part: the one with the most to lose and the driest lines. Steady in the air, unsteady everywhere else.","lead":true},{"name":"Bobby","role":"The crew's comedic motor. Flies the biggest rig.","age":"Twenties","type":"Broad, red-haired, friendly exoskeleton silhouette. Warmth, not menace.","arc":"The heart and the punchline; takes the hits that let the others keep going.","actor":"Physical comedy in a flight rig, and one injury beat that lands sincere."},{"name":"Dedrick","role":"The pro-track Neolax athlete.","age":"Twenties","type":"Younger and fuller-faced than the hardened-pro cliché. Race-coverall logic, a competition suit, a cleaner athletic silhouette than the hand-me-down kits.","arc":"The one who has already made it, and has to decide what the sport is for when the frontier is at stake.","actor":"The athlete's part: the film's cleanest flying and the swagger that gets tested."},{"name":"Rocco","role":"The junior mechanic.","age":"Teens","type":"Youngest and shortest of the crew, still a little chubby. Latino. Bare hands, tool belt, no helmet. Not a contact player.","arc":"Keeps the ship alive from the tailgate; the crew's conscience when the adults go quiet.","actor":"A warm, funny, ground-level part with its own set piece in the engine bay."},{"name":"Dad","role":"John An's father. Garage, night before, pre-dawn.","age":"Forties to fifties","type":"Workwear. Traces of an earlier riding life; not an active flyer.","arc":"Builds the pack with his son and sends him off. The film's first and last image of what agency looks like at home.","actor":"Two scenes that the whole film rests on."},{"name":"The four-arm household robot","role":"The family's machine. Two primary arms; two auxiliary grippers stowed over the shoulders.","age":"Weathered","type":"Sleek, heavily used, a broad smoked screen for a head. A tool, not a character with designs of its own.","arc":"Technology as partner: it fixes, carries, and opens its tool bay, and never takes the wheel.","actor":"Performance capture or practical; the brief is warmth without a face."},{"name":"The Examiner","role":"Runs the qualification that lets a flyer out of the atmosphere.","age":"Adult","type":"Official outerwear, a posture of approval withheld.","arc":"The gate John An has to pass; the first face of the system that decides who gets to go.","actor":"A small, precise part with one decisive look."},{"name":"The Village Elder","role":"Balance, taught in stillness.","age":"Old","type":"Pre-technological dress and dwelling; the only technology in frame is the light bug.","arc":"Teaches the crew when to be still. The film's counterweight to all that flying.","actor":"One scene, all presence."},{"name":"The Capital","role":"Where the frontier gets gated: the office through which travel is permitted, and the power at the edge of the frame.","age":"Institutional","type":"A benevolent President, a Secretary of Travel, and the people who move between them.","arc":"The plot runs through here. Who is complicit and who is used is the film's turn, and stays in the film.","actor":"Two senior roles for recognizable faces; the kind of casting that sells a poster."}],"generatedFrom":"lib/package.ts"}