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(Dropping in late to say) I will definitely read this series. I love Sci Fi... and this series seems like it (sort of) embodies all that is Sci Fi. Can't wait! (:

I'm sorry to have to say, I've tried and tried... but I simply can't get this right. So I've decided to keep the three main characters, but just delete the whole assassin-aspect (that just didn't work out). I'll revamp this pitch once I finish rewriting the pilot.

Thanks for replying, it's really appreciated, especially coming from someone with your kind of background in VS. I know I'm not gonna be great anytime soon, but I'm fine with that, as long as what I write isn't utter unreadable crap. I'm open to improvement, though and adding to the vocabulary (since I'm not a native english speaker).

Is underwater, in the case of my script underwater in the ocean, an interior or exterior shot?

[shadow=green,left,300]THE ORPHANS[/shadow]
"Fuckers picked the wrong children to orphanize..."

Many years ago, assassins from all over the world and from many different cultures came together to form a society they came to call "The Scythe". Already during their first few operational months, The Scythe gained more and more members and quickly became one of the most effective killing forces in the world.

Martha and John Lockley are two of these deadly assassins... thing is, they've got three children to take care of as well and who all know of their work and see it as a normal part of their everyday lives. Everything seems to go well for a while, no problems... until that night when someone decides they want Martha and John dead. This someone invites them to a meeting in a mansion, where they then proceed to beat the life out of them... the youngest child, Travis, is abducted, while the eldest, Adam and Lola, are left beaten and near death. They end up in a two and a half month long coma in a local hospital... but when they wake, things are about to get bloody...

Adam and Lola are determined to take down all the people that were present in the mansion, no matter what it takes... and retrieve their brother, who they both believe is still alive. Simply put, the fuckers chose the wrong children to orphanize... all three of them.

CAST:


AARON JOHNSON as Adam Lockley, out of him and Lola he shines out on the field the most, where the guns and the hand-to-hand combat comes into the picture... but that isn't to suggest he's stupid, quite the opposite, he is very smart too... but his thinking mostly kicks in under pressure... like when he's under fire or being chased by someone. That's where he and Lola are the most different, because Lola is terrible with thinking under pressure. Adam mostly keeps his feelings bottled up... but in reality, he is the more emotional of the two, he just hides his feelings better. He is perhaps the one most effected by the death of their parents and the loss of their younger brother.

Episode Count: 6 Episodes


DAKOTA FANNING as Lola Lockley, who out of her and Adam is the more "brainy" one and always liked to work with numbers, figure things out and plot things out. She has been raised as a skilled fighter too, but where she truly shines is the plotting-board. Lola is the more emotional of her and Adam and isn't afraid to show her feelings in front of others... though it will take something very big to push her to that point where she has to show her deepest feelings.

Episode Count: 6 Episodes


SKANDAR KEYNES as Tyler Suzuki

Episode Count: 5 Episodes


JAYMA MAYS as Maggie Pretzel

Episode Count: 4 Episodes


NATHAN GAMBLE as Travis Lockley

Episode Count: 5 Episodes

RECURRING CHARACTERS:


ZHANG ZIYI as Ayako

Episode Count: 2 Episodes


ANJELICA HUSTON as Granita Appelita

Episode Count: 2 Episodes

EPISODES:

1x01 "Aftermath"

Synopsis: After nearly facing death at the hands of The Scythe, siblings Adam and Lola are put in a coma... and wake up precisely two and a half months later. They briefly mourn the death of their parents... then they instantly set their eyes upon the people who did this and also abducted their younger brother, they want revenge.

GUEST STARS: Beau Garrett, Skandar Keynes, Nathan Gamble

1x02 "TBA"

Synopsis: TBA!

GUEST STARS: Jayma Mays, Anjelica Huston

1x03 "TBA"

GUEST STARS: Jayma Mays, Skandar Keynes, Anjelica Huston, Nathan Gamble

1x04 "TBA"

GUEST STARS: Skandar Keynes, Zhang Ziyi, Nathan Gamble

1x05 "TBA"

GUEST STARS: Jayma Mays, Skandar Keynes, Zhang Ziyi, Nathan Gamble

1x06 "TBA"

GUEST STARS: Jayma Mays, Skandar Keynes, Nathan Gamble

Creator's Notes: "The Orphans" will consist of 12 episodes a season and about two seasons worth of plot-arc is planned, but it could run for longer.

I don't really see VS and filming as the same thing. In VS, you can do so much more and add special effects, etc. but with filming yourself you have it very limitited (plus, you can't really film establishing aerial shots without falling to a certain death).

I see only one solution to this... PITCH! PITCH! WRITE! WRITE!

Zombies

Twilight or Harry Potter?

The first season has fully aired and consists of 6 episodes only, but it has been renewed for a second season of 13 episodes.