The Stage 32 Videos: Superman

Superwoman's Tornado Bus Rampage I dont Really Care

Hey y’all, I just uploaded my pitch deck for CALVIN ELLIS, a live-action political sci fi television series built around DC’s Superman of Earth-23. This shit is character-driven, political, Black as hell, and rooted in law, media, power, memory, and myth. It’s structured as a three-part pilot event and follows a Black civil rights attorney of extraterrestrial origin whose public emergence forces a reckoning with truth, personhood, and leadership. I’ve been building this over the last few years, and I’m not even gonna lie, this all came out of grief. Losing both of my parents shifted something in me, and writing became the one place I could actually put that energy somewhere real. So now here we are. Pages turned into projects, projects turned into direction. I’m working on seven projects total right now. Amen. And I’m gonna say this plain: I’m looking for co-writers. Not vibes. Not “let’s talk about it.” Not “I’ve been thinking about writing something.” I mean people who can actually build. Structure. Dialogue. Character. Rhythm. All of it. People who know how to get in the work and stay there. If you’re serious and you know you’ve got something to bring to the table, tap in. Let’s not play. Glad to be here.

This is my pitch deck for CALVIN ELLIS, a live-action political sci fi television series built around DC’s Superman of Earth-23. The show is character-driven, political, Black as hell, and rooted in law, media, power, memory, and myth. Structured as a three-part pilot event, it follows a Black civil rights attorney of extraterrestrial origin whose public emergence forces a reckoning with truth, personhood, and leadership.

For those who dislike the direction Superman is going in, and miss the professionalism of the Man of Steel, I cut this quick piece playing on the tiktok trend of Maximus & Jeff.

Produced by "ASCI Scuola di Cinema". With Massimiliano Rossi (from Gomorrah) and Loredana Simioli.