Hey Alex Olguin, you have a really strong foundation here. While reading the logline, an idea popped into my head that might deepen the theme of the forgotten past.

I imagined Armstrong not just as an ancient combat unit, but as something closer to a modern fairy tale, almost like Aladdin finding the magic lamp. The kid discovers him covered in dust, brings him home, cleans him, accidentally presses an old mechanical button, and Armstrong slowly comes back to life after decades in silence.

And the most interesting part is that he does not only carry strength. He carries memory. Real information from the world before the AI-controlled society. Old footage, colors, sounds, everyday moments that people are no longer allowed to feel. Emotions the system has erased.

With that approach, Armstrong becomes more than a gentle giant. He becomes a living relic that opens the kid’s eyes, and later the eyes of the entire community. It raises the stakes and makes the conflict with the AI much more emotional.

Just sharing a creative angle because your project has great potential for that kind of depth.

Daniel Danitto thank you so much for taking the time to read the logline and for sharing such a rich interpretation. I truly appreciate it.

Your reading of Armstrong as a figure who carries lost memory and emotion aligns very closely with the heart of the project. In my approach, Kevin activates Armstrong almost by accident, and the danger arises precisely because in this world, obsessed with avoiding overstimulation and any form of “emotional risk", a child labeled as “unstable” ends up carrying a relic that offers him a kind of freedom he could never access on his own.

Armstrong isn’t just ancient technology; he becomes the physical representation of all the natural, repressed energy inside Kevin. He’s a child full of imagination, trapped in a body that limits him and in a society that suppresses him under the excuse of safety.

The story plays with that question: At what point does the fear of pain, chaos, and risk become its own kind of prison?

That’s why their relationship becomes so symbiotic. For Kevin, Armstrong slowly turns into an extension of both his body and his spirit.

I also have some animatics and early visual pieces that dig deeper into this contrast between a hyper-controlled world and the “wild spark” that Armstrong brings into it. If you’re interested, I’d be happy to share them privately.

Thanks again, your comment really resonates with the core essence of the project, and I’m grateful you saw it so clearly.