ORIGIN STORY Feature Film and VIDEO GAME
In 1898, Teddy Roosevelt dispatches defrocked Kung Fu Nun and occult detective Toni le Chardin (TLC) to find the Scroll of St. Michael before the shapeshifting angel from Hell, Leviathan, can unlock its awesome power and destroy the world.
Streaming Pilot featuring TLC titled :
GONE AHEAD, NOT DEAD - also in development.
Serialized Novel & Series Bible in Development
Toni le Chardin (TLC)
is a pan-sexual, defrocked Kung Fu nun who was trained since birth at a Shaolin Monastery in France. Her desire for instant gratification and her contempt for male authority figures sometimes lead her into situations that call for a kind of restraint she does not yet possess.
The Time-Traveling, Ghostly Hindu Sadhu – Toni's otherworldy sidekick does not control his comings and goings, but he is able to bring back baubles from the past and future. He yearns to be funny, but Toni seldom appreciates his humor. When he brings a CD Boom Box back to 1898, all Hell breaks loose!
William Randolph Hearst uses a spell written on an ancient scroll to unleash the Sea Beast, Leviathan, on the U.S.S. Maine. Its sinking starts a war with Spain.
However, a trusted aide steals the scroll...
Teddy attempts to enlist Toni in a covert mission to recover a mysterious ancient chest. She refuses until Hearst reveals himself and informs her that whoever possesses the scroll that's kept inside it controls Leviathan. The beast, it turns out, is a shapeshifting fallen angel. In the form of a man named Makaray, Leviathan murdered Toni's twin sister a decade earlier. Toni takes the mission and sets out for revenge, unaware it will change everything about her...
Leviathan fell from Heaven with Lucifer, who has tried to keep the beast on a tight leash ever since. However, Leviathan is closer than ever to securing the scroll. With it, the beast will possess the power to usurp his master and command the Archangel Michael. If Toni fails, Leviathan will destroy the Divine Order and snuff out every soul in Heaven, Hell, and everywhere in between.
THE SET UP
1898 - Port of Havana, Cuba.
A Seaman on the U.S.S. Maine spies a Brigantine sailing ship from a lookout perch. At its helm stands Makaray, the human form of the shapeshifting fallen angel known to the world as the Sea Monster Leviathan. Meanwhile, William Randolf Hearst removes THE SCROLL OF ST. MICHAEL, an ancient COPPER-COLORED UMBILICUS, a mere 9" in length, from the ancient wooden chest on his desk. Ornate gold SEA SERPENT HEADS that (we will soon see) resemble the SEA MONSTER LEVIATHAN decorate its ends.
Hearst reads a spell engraved on the Scroll. He commands Leviathan to shapeshift. Lightning strikes. Makaray and his Brigantine sailing shift transform into the Sea Monster. Leviathan attacks the U.S.S. Maine, cleaving it in two and scattering its crew into the floating, fiery debris.
Hearst calls Tom Hunter, the editor of his newspapers, into his study and commands him to stop the presses. "We're going to war," he exclaims.
Tom Hunter spies the chest, offers Hearst a toast, and Hearst drinks. Hunter has laced the cocktail with knockout drops. Hearst collapses to the floor. Hunter makes off with the chest and the Scroll.
ACT ONE
FIVE YEARS LATER...
President Teddy Roosevelt summons Toni to the White House and offers her the job of retrieving the scroll because of her unique occult gifts and marshal qualifications. She is to retrieve the chest, the contents of which, he implies, should not concern her.
Toni refuses.
Hearst arrives and informs Toni about the Scroll and its power. Hearst and Roosevelt convey that the world's fate hangs in the balance, so Toni must find the chest and the Scroll and save the world. When even that is not enough to induce Toni to action, Hearst reveals information that makes the quest very personal for her...
Toni arrives in Savannah, Georgia, where she has family, and where Tom Hunter was last seen.
ACT TWO
This is no ordinary mission. Toni's enemy is far more potent than any she has ever faced. She needs help. This is also very personal for her and her internal conflicts inform the action, sometimes to her disadvantage. Her impetuous nature has cost her in the past and does so now.
She must face the fact that her flagrant contempt for the rules of society only works for her when everyone else follows them. In a free-for-all, she's just another disruptor in a world full of people and beings far more comfortable breaking all the rules. So, it's grow up or die for Toni.
The conflict that drives the action is that everyone wants the Scroll. And for Toni’s enemies, it's no-holds-barred. So, she will have to use her wits and psychic gifts if she is going to survive, much less emerge victorious. However, most importantly, she must admit she can't do it alone and will have to conform just enough to be a team player, at least some of the time.
She's headed into uncharted and perilous territory, and it's not just her life or the life of her sister and friends that's in danger now. The whole world really will suffer and possibly be destroyed unless she finds a way to prevail.
ACT THREE
The climactic resolution brings Toni to the edge of existential despair and physical ruin. She's wounded. Her sister, Rina, has been abducted by a sadistic, shapeshifting fallen angel. Her mentor, the ghostly Sadhu, has made a deal with the devil. And her newfound compatriot, the Rev. Arthur Chambers, may have been murdered by one of their adversaries. It doesn't look good, happy, or hopeful until…
WRAP-UP
Toni gets back on her feet and enlists the help of four members of Rina's "gang," The Peach Tree Five. They make their way back to Christ's Church, where she physically rescues Rev. Chambers from certain death. But there's still a lot more to do.
Makaray is about to subject Rina and her family to an awful ordeal to help him gain information he feels will lead him to the Scroll. Meanwhile, the Scroll has fallen into the hands of one of Hearst's minions, and the race for it is on once again!
Toni, Chambers, and the Peach Tree Five must find and free Rina, secure the Scroll, and save the world from the forces of darkness, which, it turns out, are as powerful in people as they are in demons.
Stay tuned for the next installment of TLC and the Hunt for Leviathan!
Toni le Chardin (TLC) – is a pan-sexual, defrocked Kung Fu nun who was trained since birth at a Shaolin Monastery in France. Her desire for instant gratification and her contempt for male authority figures sometimes lead her into situations that call for a kind of restraint she does not yet possess. It's a challenging flaw, but as Hamartia goes, it's not the worst fault a psychic, occult private detective can possess. An orphan who lost her twin sister and part of her own right leg to the rampaging, shapeshifting beast Leviathan, Toni sets out for revenge. Ahimsa and turn the other cheek be damned! She'll have to grow up and build a new family if she's to survive, for no one can defeat the Beast alone.
Rev. Arthur Chambers is the son of a Prince Hall Freemason who was orphaned during the Civil War. Chambers became a widower soon after his honeymoon. The culprit? You guessed it: Makaray Leviathan. He must grow from a faith-shaken woe-is-me inveterate gambler to the engaged-again warrior destined to go on a mission from God.
The Time-Traveling, Ghostly Hindu Sadhu – is Toni's otherworldy sidekick. He does not control his comings and goings, but he is able to bring back baubles from the past and future. He yearns to be funny, but Toni seldom appreciates his humor.
Makaray Leviathan – is the Beast. He's the ageless captain of a ship that bears his name when in human form, and the sea monster, LEVIATHAN when he shapeshifts and wreaks havoc on the high seas. His Achilles heel: The Scroll of St. Michael.
Joshua, Rina, and her sister Sheree LeGree – Joshua serves the African American community in the low country outside Savannah as mayor. He also owns a bank. His youngest, Rina, is Toni's twin sister, who has been reincarnated. She's a summoner of Demons and possesses unique gifts. Sheree, her older sister, carries on a racially forbidden affair with Detective Mosely Beckett and arrests Joshua and scores of other African American men for a triple axe murder of three Savannah women.
The Landlady of Savannah – is a finely quaffed, up-from-the-gutter Asian woman in her fifties. She's known only by her vocation. As the ruthless head of the Rackets in town, she takes Deeds from the deadbeats who cannot cover their gambling losses or control their appetites for the Ladies of the Night in her employ.
Cerberus—Yup. The cute little white Maltese is actually the shapeshifting, three-headed hound guarding the gates of Hell. Always hungry, very demanding, and often precocious, Cerberus provides tension-breaking laughs and provokes the feeling dog lovers get when their favorite pet does absolutely adorable things.
William Randolf Hearst – the world's first billionaire, he's an all-things-occult junkie. He had the Scroll of St. Michael for years and lost it. He wants it back. His newspapers make or break presidents, so he calls on one, Teddy Roosevelt, who has just the right Occult Detective in mind to help him get it back.
President Teddy Roosevelt—the youngest man to serve—ascended to the White House on the death of President McKinley. His children yearn to live up to Teddy's reputation as a pugnacious, take-no-prisoners fighter. They hold a mock sword fight on the lawn, even as Roosevelt and Hearst convince TLC (TONI) to take the case.
TLC - Leviathan Hunter (Episode One) is ready to shoot.
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