- Creator: Amazon Studios
- Genres: Horror, Action and Adventure
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The Temple
A U.S. Special Operations unit in hostile territory face an incomprehensible horror when track their quarry to an ancient temple that hides the wellspring of human violence.
Synopsis:
A group of private-company mercenaries tracking a wanted terrorist through the no man’s land between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They are joined by an archaeologist from the British Museum when they find that their quarry has disappeared into the Safed Koh mountains to an ancient temple long thought to be nothing more than a legend. Hazarded by gunfire throughout the journey, the weary team finally finds the awe-inspiring ruin.
Empty and quiet, the stones inside are pockmarked by gunfire -- whatever happened in this place, it was bad. Against the advice of both the archaeologist and his second-in-command, the leader of the team decides to stay in the temple to investigate.
What the men discover is an abattoir: not only the men attached to the terrorist, but bodies from dozens… even hundreds of years have been cast throughout the bowels of he ancient building. The longer the men stay in its winding halls, the more their behavior toward each other becomes aggressive and out-of-character. The more it becomes murderous. The archaeologist realizes that the temple itself -- *herself* -- is driving the men to violence. Like a Venus flytrap, the temple has always called men of war into her bosom and devoured them.
The men whose sanity remains intact begin a race against time to try and escape the temple before it drives them to madness, but they must stop their own commander from calling in reinforcements and feeding the temple more and more of the men she wants to consume.
Empty and quiet, the stones inside are pockmarked by gunfire -- whatever happened in this place, it was bad. Against the advice of both the archaeologist and his second-in-command, the leader of the team decides to stay in the temple to investigate.
What the men discover is an abattoir: not only the men attached to the terrorist, but bodies from dozens… even hundreds of years have been cast throughout the bowels of he ancient building. The longer the men stay in its winding halls, the more their behavior toward each other becomes aggressive and out-of-character. The more it becomes murderous. The archaeologist realizes that the temple itself -- *herself* -- is driving the men to violence. Like a Venus flytrap, the temple has always called men of war into her bosom and devoured them.
The men whose sanity remains intact begin a race against time to try and escape the temple before it drives them to madness, but they must stop their own commander from calling in reinforcements and feeding the temple more and more of the men she wants to consume.
Latest Work
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Trailer01/28/12
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Test Movie 1 - Test Movie01/26/12
Creative Notes:Hope you enjoy our Amazon Studios funded test movie of THE TEMPLE. We recommend downloading the motion comic rather than streaming it and listening with the volume turned up to 11! Note that you can also watch on your TV via a variety of devices (Roku, TiVo, etc) through Amazon Instant Video for free: http://amzn.to/wi4CQN . -
Script 3 - Alex's 3rd Draft01/27/12
All Work
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Trailer 3 - Teaser 111/29/11
Creative Notes:First teaser for our AS funded motion comic. -
Trailer 2 - Horror, Action and Adventure10/31/11
Creative Notes:A Teaser Trailer.
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Trailer 110/05/11
Creative Notes:I wanted to give the feeling that something mystical yet alive is within the temple, without showing all the characters, but allowing the lead Burton to make the clear understanding that their is a mission at hand. R.G.
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Script 2 - Alex's 2nd Draft09/28/11
Creative Notes:RTF should be read in MS Word. Production revision developed in collaboration with AS (you can find notes in our project forum). The script is longer than a traditional spec - motion comics require a great deal more art direction. Interesting how much changed because of turning the mercenaries into soldiers and the heroine into a local. Altering characters with the cast in mind was great.
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Script 1 - Alex's Original Draft07/29/11
Creative Notes:RTF version is best read in MS Word. There is a .pdf file for easier reading.