THE
KINGDOM OF ULTIMATE POWER
A Film By -
JEREMY E. BUHLER & GUSTAVO
RODRIGUEZ
SYNOPSIS
What’s
happened to Arch? A few years back he
was the darling of his film school class, a gifted
screenwriter with a golden touch who seemed destined
for greatness. Nowadays he’s nothing but
an
insufferable know-it-all who can do everything
in the
realm of screenwriting--except write a script!
His
time and fading talents are squandered on hanging
out,
drinking, working a dead end office job, and
delivering windy park bench sermons to old friends
about the failings of modern film.
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During such a sermon, a mysterious bald-headed
figure
is drawn in by Arch’s words of cinematic
wisdom. He is
Vlad Rifka, A.K.A. “The Bringer of Death”, a retired
ultimate fighting champion, with cinematic dreams
of
his own. Vlad has his sights set on a Hollywood
career,
and, it just so happens that he has the perfect
vehicle
to catapault him to superstardom: a religious
sci-fi
epic called “The Kingdom of Ultimate Power.” There
are
just two problems: it’s probably one
of the worst ideas ever imagined and he needs someone to write it.
And who better to write it than Arch? At least
that’s
what Vlad strongly believes. The right thing
to do,
for any respectable writer, would be to say “no thanks”,
but it’s just not Arch’s’ style to
flatly refuse to write the world’s worst script—not
that he’s
actually planning on writing it. The temptation
to
keep a kooky character, like Vlad, around for his
own
condescending amusement is too powerful to
resist.
However, that source of amusement increasingly
becomes
a source of anxiety. Vlad makes more and more
uninvited visits to his writer’s apartment
and with
each encounter Arch’s excuses for not
having written
a word become flimsier and flimsier.
Despite this impending threat, Arch is still
unable to
make the words appear on the page and it’s
not until
one desperate final act that he must force himself
to
summon the creative powers that deserted him
long ago.
With the menacing fury of Vlad breathing down
his neck
can Arch find the cure for his writer’s
block before
he faces the chopping block?
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