The Stage 32 Videos: Tech Thriller

This idea started with a question I’ve had for years: What if, in the distant future, our digital footprints — Facebook, photos, data — were enough to rebuild us in some form? People. Animals. Life itself. And what if we didn’t know when to stop? What happens when reconstruction stops being remembrance… and becomes creation?

This is a Halloween-themed cinematic teaser trailer for my novel "A.I. Capone: The Digital Don" (which I'm currently adapting for the screen), a no-budget proof-of-concept to establish tone: noir lighting, glitch dread, digital menace, mob swagger. I wrote, voiced, and edited it myself. The visuals were crafted in Sora, soundtrack in Suno, and I handled all compositing and sound design in-house. Of course, the dream is real sets, crews, lenses, actors, composers, etc — and I'm working toward that. Enjoy!