Short films director Ryan Unicomb plans to make his feature debut on Stream of Consciousness, a sci-fi thriller by American writer J.E. Clarke.
The plot revolves around Dr Saul Aaron, who invents technology which makes telepathy possible. The twist: Is the invention a path into the world of the mind or to a far stranger place?
Clarke’s screenplay Containment, a Zombie/horror pic about a band of teenagers who break into an isolated storage facility, has been optioned by US-based Primestar Film Group.
Unicomb spotted the Stream of Consciousness script online and negotiated with the writer to buy an option. It will be produced by Purryburry Productions' Aaron Cater and David Breen and Steven Caldwell of Caldwell Entertainment.
The plan is to shoot in Queensland in September with Andrew Conder as the cinematographer. “I have a team of international investors that are interested in moving forward with a feature film with myself at the helm, " Unicomb tells IF.
Purryburry and Caldwell collaborated last year on Gifted, a short he co-directed with Jordan Bailey which followed the rise and fall of the world’s first superhero, Guardian, and featured Breen, Cameron Robbie, Rachel Gobel, Brad Kendrick, Nic Hamilton and Wade Boyes.
“I and my team at Purryburry Productions had been looking for a great script for some time to be our first foray into feature filmmaking,“ he said.
“We read tens of scripts that we had found online and that had been sent to us before we came across the screenplay for Stream. It was exactly what we were after. We contacted J.E. Clarke immediately and have now worked out a deal.”
At this stage casting is just a wish list but he’s interested in having Rutger Hauer play the lead and is a fan of Adelaide Clemens and Breen.