“Space Shifter Casey” is the working title of a new SF political thriller screenplay from the pen of 24 year old writer Allan Drake.
It tells the story of a young man named Casey who is pulled into mortal danger when his greedy, “mad scientist†father, Storrga, creates a new power-suit that will take the occupant into another dimension. Casey must carry the burdens of his father and his nightmarish creation and at the same time, believe in his new friends while on the run in the post-apocalyptic society: The Fruit Core. A wave of darkness is on the horizon when brutal renegades emerge to try to unlock the power of that suit for themselves and a great nation is at risk. Can Casey stop them from gaining ultimate control? Sometimes the only thing you can do is run.
This movie, about an idealistic young teen who ends up with a piece of high technology that disrupts the power balance of two nations, sounds like an interesting concept for a morality tale. Throughout Casey’s journey, he finds love, new friends, and new beliefs that he protects with his life. The setting for the script, the Fruit Core, is not your everyday post-apocalyptic society. It is one that, while diminished in population size from disease and war, emerges out of the ashes to become a technological, political paradise of hope.
“I wrote this out of frustration with the current government,” stated Drake. “And, hope someday that people will be able to believe again. Believe in people like Casey.”
This is Drake’s very first screenplay and he talks about his screenwriting process for “Space Shifter Casey” on his own blog located HERE
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Interesting concept. The name really needs work though. Sounds like a bad anime title or old Japanese sci-fi rip-off.