Alice, a 26 year old nobody, makes a friend for the first time, burns out with an ex-flame, and gets ensnared in corporate conspiracy orchestrated by a Machiavellian overachiever. When it’s no longer safe she escapes out of the city and onto a journey illuminating her clandestine self - a desperado with a heart of gold, in a story about revenge that borders on redemption.

Syncopation of interplaying genres and narrative types hold space for the values of Alice’s maturation. Innocence vs. Intimidation and Freedom vs. Despair are the conflicts harmonizing the somber yet serene, calm yet melancholy, peaceful yet pensive tones of this bright, existential, picaresque folktale - a modern western mosaic. A polyphonic rhapsody of the Pastel Blues.

Concept: Scooby-Doo meets The Twilight Zone

Imagine we spend a season in Coolsville getting to know the gang through little mysteries and adventures as a big mystery is built in the background, popping off at the end of season 1, sending our characters on the road solving little mysteries to get to the big mystery - on an adventure through genre plays that flow into each other. Going from the unreal to the too-real. The genre plays dictate setting; the shifting contexts for Alice’s worldview movements. Ego, Identity, Persona, and Self are the arenas to be illuminated in Alice’s conscious mind as we go from the emotional to the action-oriented.

Tone: Rocketman meets The Dark Knight

A whimsical and colorful world filled with musical extravagance, but with a dark, brooding atmosphere expressing philosophies on existence, belonging, and righteousness. Fueled by a rebellious outsider spirit, emotional intensity, and ferocious action exploring violence, redemption, and the complexity of humanity. She is the myth of the divine champion. The champion of one’s own heart who shows us how to be the same.

Character: The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt meets Michael Westen [Burn Notice]

Fit for our two worlds, yet always out of place. In our exaggerated comedy world Alice is innocently intimidating. A product of her harsh upbringing Alice is quite prickly and feels out of place, like she doesn’t belong in regular life like the people around her do. In our intense drama world Alice is intimidatingly innocent. After her big worldview shift, coming to peace with herself, she’s able to embrace and enjoy herself. Alice is no longer afraid to embrace the talents acquired in her tragic backstory and apply them to the world in front of her. However things have changed and become more intense and action oriented, so there is again this juxtaposition against her and the story environment. Which equates to a reconstruction of this machismo like an 80’s action movie. She’s like Cobra, but because this character is just loving her life while she happens to be in extreme situations it’s authentic to her. She’s been a bad-ass the whole time, but she was uncomfortable in her skin and in her life and tried to hide that before, but now that she gets to be authentic and free she’s having a good time.

Story: Cry-Baby meets The Hurricane

A low-class pretty-boy orphan bad-ass and the intense boxer imprisoned for a crime they didn’t commit. The campy and and pulpy juxtaposed against each other. The two halves of Alice’s backstory and the parts of herself she’s tried to hide. The exaggerated and the intense are given space to be lived out through Alice. By observing herself consciously her natural self is safe to exist, holding space for her strengths and values to be enacted and witnessed, so that she herself may be known.

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

- Virginia Woolf