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pilots & Screenplays

pilots

Television

The Breaking    

(one hour | supernatural / horror)

The Breaking is a supernatural generational saga about a family that has danced with the Devil  and made its Faustian bargain in exchange for knowledge, power and the lifeline of their home, an old and sacred land on which they have lived for centuries called AshTown.  Now, many years after the old ways of her family have been hidden from her, a woman discovers the truth about who and what they are and must reckon with the sins of her ancestors, deciding which path she will choose, the old way or the new way.    

 

Pilot Logline

When mysterious visions start plaguing her, a successful lawyer haunted by a tragic event from her past has to confront the truth behind the dark secrets her family holds as she unravels a terrifying mystery of supernatural occurrences in her hometown.       

Series Comps

The Haunting of Hill House, Dark, The Witch  

Status: Pilot available upon request

Development & Awards:

Orchard Project Episodic Lab, TSL Screenplay Semi-Finalist, ISA Emerging Screenwriter Quater-Finalist

CRACK'd

(one hour | dramedy / fantasy) 

Celeste, a mid-career writer experiencing severe writer's block, thinks she's going crazy when she starts seeing Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Anne Shirley, and Janie Crawford in her daily life. But she soon discovers that she's not the only one who can see the fictional characters as something extraterrestrial (and possibly supernatural) overtakes the city.

Series Comps

Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Russian Doll

Status: Pilot available upon request

Development & Awards:

Orchard Project Episodic Lab

Waiting

(half hour | irreverent rom-com)

Thandie, a thirty-something writer and actor, navigates life in New York as she struggles with being single and maintaining her vow of celibacy.

Series Comps

Fleabag, Ally McBeal

Status: Pilot available upon request

Necrosis

(one hour | sci-fi / thriller)

A virus is decreasing the human lifespan and threatening to make humanity extinct. Tech genius, Nole Basilizk, believes it is his destiny to save mankind, but more than that, he wants to pierce the veil of mortality and give all of humanity life beyond death… no matter the cost… no matter the sacrifice.  

Series Comps

Children of Men, Fringe, The Matrix

Additional Collaborations

Collaborating with Wild Crux Productions to create a Necrosis immersive virtual experience.

Status: Pilot in-progress

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Screenplays

Film

Surreal   

(sci-fi / thriller)

When Rachel, an isolated gaming designer, enters a contest and wins Aidan, an android designed to be her companion, she thinks she’s found a way to escape the pain and loneliness of her life.  But when she reconnects with her soon to be ex-husband, she discovers, to her shock and horror, that Aidan can’t let her go, and even more troubling, she won’t let him go.          

Series Comps

Fatal Attraction, Ex Machina, Her  

Status: Screenplay in-progress

 © 2023 by Nako Adodoadji 

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