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The Kingdom 1515

Screenplay · Epic · In development

Logline

In a powerful kingdom in the Niger Delta, a royal prince must navigate political ambition, family loyalties, and extraordinary spiritual gifts connected to a mysterious river creature, as growing threats place his people and everything he values at risk.

Enter the world

The kingdom is a real place that no longer exists. What is to be written is not history. It is the truth underneath history.

The buildings are made of earth and stone and carved wood, and they are more beautiful than any record remembers. Rivers are clear where they should be and dark where they should be. The people dress in a modernised traditional clothing.

And in the water, the deep water, something lives.

The Owu. They are not magic. They are not gods. They are creatures, made the same way God makes animals, but made for something more divine. The creature could also be understood as a spiritual being within God's creation, one that gives the gifts of the spirit easily.