Darwin's Journey - COMPLETE

Darwin's Journey is complete and here's a rundown of the episode titles.

1. Rise of the Rebellion
2. Hope for the Future
3. History Lesson
4. The True Face of Evil
5. Our Last Best Hope
6. Rise of Man

Script Update

A quick rundown of what's been written and what's been completed.

Darwin's Journey
Episode 1 - Rise of the Rebellion...(100% Complete)
Episode 2 - Hope for the Future...(100% Complete)
Episode 3 - History Lesson...(100% Complete)
Episode 4 - The True Face of Evil...(100% Complete)
Episode 5 - TBA...(000% Complete)
Episode 6 - The Rise of Man...(000% Complete)

Jacob's Story

Episode 0 - The Beginning of the End...(100% Complete)
Episode 1 - Riding the Trains...(100% Complete)
Episode 2 - Getting the Truth...(100% Complete)
Episode 3 - Return to Liberty...(100% Complete)
Episode 4 - Destination Disaster...(005% Complete)
Episode 5 - TBA...(000% Complete)
Episode 6 - TBA...(000% Complete)

Leviathan
Episode 1 - Discovery...(100% Complete)
Episode 2 - Refit...(100% Complete)
Episode 3 - Launch...(100% Complete)
Episode 4 - Revenge...(100% Complete)
Episode 5 - Contact...(100% Complete)
Episode 6 - Touchdown...(100% Complete)

So that's one series down (Kind of) and two more to go. Hopefullu Darwin's Journey will be the next one that's finished.

Leviathan - Teaser

LEVIATHAN - COMPLETE!!!

With each six scripts completed I finally have a beginning, a sort of middle and an ending for the series. The first three scripts compose three parts of a beginning, the fourth script contains a dark middle and the last two scripts begin to close the story and give a link to the next story.

Here is a list of episode titles.

EPISODE 1 - DISCOVERY
EPISODE 2 - REFIT
EPISODE 3 - LAUNCH
EPISODE 4 - REVENGE
EPISODE 5 - CONTACT
EPISODE 6 - TOUCHDOWN

But with the beginning and the end of the series clearly defined I now know where to take the story and what's going to happen as they move from Mars to Earth. Hopefully I'll be able to tell this story when the time comes.

Script Update

Just another quick update on what's happening with the scripts.

Darwin's Journey
Episode 1: Rise of the Rebellion - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 2: Hope for the Future - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 3: History Lesson - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 4 - TBA - First Draft (5% Complete)
Episode 5 - TBA - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 6 - TBA - First Draft (0% Complete)

Jacob's Story
Episode 1 - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 2 - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 3 - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 4 - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 5 - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 6 - First Draft (0% Complete)

Launch of the Leviathan
Episode 1 - Discovery - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 2 - TBA - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 3 - TBA - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 4 - TBA - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 5 - TBA - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 6 - TBA - First Draft (0% Complete)

Soon there'll be some concept art.

Title Announcement

This is just a brief announcement to say that the first episode of Launch of the Leviathan will be called.

DISCOVERY

and that I've started the script for that episode.

Script Update

Since Earth is over several formats with a large interconnected story there's going to be a lot of scripts to write. It's like when J. Michael Strazinski wrote Seasons 3, 4 and 5 of Babylon 5. So I'll cover what's been happening.

Darwin's Journey

Episode 1: Rise of the Rebellion - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 2: Hope for the Future - First Draft (100% Complete)
Episode 3: TBA - First Draft (5% Complete)
Episode 4: TBA - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 5: TBA - First Draft (0% Complete)
Episode 6: TBA - First Draft (0% Complete)

Jacob's Story
Episode 1: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 2: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 3: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 4: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 5: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 6: TBA (0% Complete)

Launch of the Leviathan
Episode 1: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 2: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 3: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 4: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 5: TBA (0% Complete)
Episode 6: TBA (0% Complete)

So there we go. Two scripts complete with another Sixteen to go.

A Script Sample

And now for a few lines from DARWIN'S JOURNEY!!!

This is from Episode 1: Rise of the Rebellion. It's at the end of Scene 5.

Narrator (Darwin)
Also, there was something else that was happening at the time. Something that I didn't find out until the end. I was being monitored by the Overseers. For what Reasons, I'll keep them to myself.

Rewrites

The Rewriting Process happens all the time. Everything is rewritten and it won't be released until it's to a very high standard. So With Earth I've done the same thing.

In the very beginning with that single script for Hilltown FM. The script was very different. It was still on Earth. Most of the key factors of the story were literally non existant such as the year the series takes place. There was no mention of a date in the story so there was no need to fix that one down. Yet when I rewrote the story I felt that having an exact date would be the best thing all around. So I focused on May 29th 2107. Purely because the finished radio drama was to be broadcast during May.

Another thing which came about due to rewrites was The Overseer Empire. The Villians of the series. In the very first script it was going to be a group of voices. Nine people would have been required to provide individual lines of dialogue. With the realisation that you couldn't get Nine People together or at times that best suited them it was chopped down to Three and gave the story a better twist.

Localisation is another factor. Where is the story set? Again it's on Earth but where on Earth? It could be anywhere but with request from some people at the radio station to set the story in Dundee for the simple fact that the radio station was based in Dundee. Yet with more and more rewrites I've expanded it to cover a large part of Europe. Which means I could have a scene in Paris and then shoot all the way up to Scotland for an important plotpoint and in the expanded story there's bits in New York which leads to the middle of the North Atlantic.