LOGLINE: Five angst-filled teenagers manifest their inner superheroes during a high tech seance while inadvertently creating their evil doppelgängers who battle each other to save the Earth.

TAGLINE: Who would your Inner Superhero be?

SYNOPSIS:

Five teenagers are inspired to invoke their inner superheroes into existence after their English teacher lectures on a historical seance attended by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, where ectoplasmic wish ghosts formed by the collective will of readers’ imaginations appear in photographs.

The teens suffer from adolescent anxieties ranging from social isolation, bulimia, parental and peer pressure, loneliness and the bombardment of current global angsts. Each creates a sketch of their inner superhero that possesses superpowers based on their personal talents and interests, aimed at helping them heal their growing pains. The teens form a society called The Guild of Inner Superheroes. The website goes viral with global teens creating their own inner superheroes and posting videos.

One of the five teens, Michael Kopsa, a geeks physics savant, adapts a Brain Computer Interfacing Device (BCI) that amplifies the brain’s imagination center. The teens conduct a high tech seance aboard the

yacht where Mark Burgess, the groups electrical genius lives. The night skies above the boat are filled with electrically charged aurora borealis along with a meteorite shower. These natural phenomena act as a catalyst, animating not only the teens’s five inner superheroes, but unexpectedly their evil supervillain doppelgängers as well. A quantum vortex sucks the ten supers away before they are discovered by the teens.

The supervillains escape the quantum zone, leaving the superheroes unconscious and trapped in a collapsing black hole. The supervillains return to Earth intent on killing their five teen creators, as both cannot co-exist in the same multiverse beyond an appointed time (The Quantum Paradox). They teleport to the Santa Monica Pier, where they proceed to wreak havoc before pursuing the teens who have sailed to Catalina Island to hide.

The trapped superheroes are able to create a psychic link with the teens while they are unconscious, instructing the Guild of Inner Superheroes to undertake a global meditation to free them. A Battle Royale ensues between the five superheroes and their supervillain counterparts with the fate of the planet hanging in the balance.

During the course of the story, the superheroes interact with the teens and show them the value of friendship, teamwork and love, changing the

trajectory of their lives.

THE TEENS - SUPERHEROES & SUPERVILLAINS

ONIDA HEMLOCK 14. Iroquois. Lives in a mobile home park with her mother, a nurse. Abandoned by her alcoholic father, she suffers self esteem issues, finding solace in learning medicine woman magic and studying healing herbs. Falls in love with Michael.

INNER SUPERHERO - MEDICINE MAIDEN

Costume: Suede skins and eagle feathers, with ancient Iroquois medicine symbols on the back.

Superpowers: Has a medicine bag arsenal of magic herbs and liquids that she uses to overpower villains - sleeping potions, hypnotic herbs, poisonous plants, clinging vines, shrinking powders. She uses ancient spells to charge the herbs and potions before using them. Able to invoke a majestic eagle patronus.

SUPER VILLAIN - SHAMANESS

Costume: Suede skins bonded together with gnarly tree roots, black raven claws and decayed leaves. Wears a Raven skull crown.

Superpowers: Invokes dark shamanistic magic to animate aspects of her costume - tree roots that grow

and ensnare victims, leaves that are razor sharp that flutter in erratic trajectories to their targets. Able to invoke a raven patronus to attack. She can transport herself psychically to see through the eyes of plants.

MARK BURGESS, 14. Afro-American. Lives on an old wooden yacht with his immature and overly liberal father. Mark is a mechanical and electrical savant. His man cave in the ships’s bow is crowded with a massive futuristic high speed electric train set, functioning Tesla coils and computers. He is overweight and is the group’s skeptic until he comes face to face with his worst nightmare. Has a crush on Angela who is smitten by Wayne.

INNER SUPERHERO - DIGITAL DUDE

Costume: Made of living fibre optics and computer chips.

Superpowers: His costume imbues him with the ability to tap into any online video game hero and utilize their powers, transforming into facsimiles.

SUPER VILLAIN - DARK WEB MASTER

Costume: A computer virus, a twisted holographic version of Digital Dude - worm-like swirls of pulsing lights.

Superpowers: His costume has the ability to tap into any online video game villain and utilize their powers, transforming into facsimiles.

ANGELA CHAN, 14. Chinese. A social recluse. Her dominating mother forces her to study obsessively and sets stressful goals for her daughter. She suffers from bulimia. She spends most of her free time on her cell phone, playing violin and drawing. She ends up helping the other four create the drawings of their inner superheroes. In love with Wayne.

INNER SUPERHERO - iPHONE MISTRESS

Costume: She wears a traditional silk kimono with two satin cartridge belts criss-cross her chest, each carrying numerous multi-coloured cell phones.

Superpowers: Each of her cell phones is a different weapon. Firing bullets, missiles, lasers, a deafening sound ray, and even tranquilizing darts. One mysterious cell is called Text a Hero and manifests multiverse superheroes. She cannot control who or what comes through.

SUPER VILLAIN - CELL SORCERESS

Costume: Black Ninja robes. Her apple cell phones are all encrypted with ancient numbers instead of western numerics and crackle with meta magical sorcery.

Superpowers: Same as iPhone Mistress but extra powerful with tech from an alien multiverse.

MICHAEL KOPSA, 14. Caucasian. The group’s quantum physics genius. Gaunt and pale from Covid’s long haul effects, he needs a Ventolin puffer when too excited. He modifies a Brain Computer Interface device (BCI) to amplify the brain’s imaginative powers and creates the Guild website. Has a crush on Onida.

SUPERHERO - PHASE OUT

Costume: Translucent energy fields with moving quantum physics symbols over a white outfit.

Superpowers: Able to phase in and out of reality, allowing bullets and projectiles to pass through him unharmed. Surrounds his enemies in a quantum field, disrupting their ability to use weapons and holding them captive.

SUPER VILLAIN - BLACK HOLE

Costume: The center of his costume is a swirling black hole that negates his heart area.

Superpowers: Able to transmit rays from his hands that transport his victims into a black hole dimension

where they continue to exist in nothingness. Can also focus the black hole to deflect incoming attacks from weapons.

WAYNE FIPKE, 14. Jewish. Wayne is a highly functioning autistic. Has a hard time staying focused. Very athletic and gets into fights at school. His outlet is martial arts which helps him focus. Cannot stand being touched, an obstacle to his shared love with Angela.

INNER SUPERHERO - KING FU

Costume: A white judo outfit, loose fitting with a colourful red sash. A Tao symbol on his chest activates his powers. Wears a white mask.

Superpowers: A master of every form of martial arts - Kung fu. Judo. Bushido, Karate. Tai chi. Able to change techniques instantly. His red sash is a deadly weapon in his hands.

SUPER VILLAIN - NINJA NEMESIS

Costume: Black leather outfit. His sash is a set of nun chuks. Wears a black mask covering his eyes. A fire breathing dragon symbol on the back.

Superpowers: All martial arts skills. Able to create weapons out of the ether - Samurai sword. Nunchuks. Deadly pentacles. Spears.