Progress Report

An update! After months of hard work, with advice from many people with inside knowledge of the industry (in Hollywood and all points east of there) we have refined the narrative and the project as a whole so that it conforms very closely with what producers and viewers want. All the comments we have received have been positive and creative, and we thank all those who have been so generous with their time! So Steve has started a campaign via LinkedIn designed to draw in potential partners who might wish to help us to bring the project to fruition. Here is his post:

We're working hard to get Brian John's Angel Mountain series of books made into a TV series. Just requires one of the big production companies to show some chutzpah and take on an entirely unique and adventurous costume drama.

Log Line:
A young widow with psychic powers makes a “solemn compact” with a mysterious wizard that she will save a sacred mountain, in exchange for which she has to trust that her traumatised family and ruinous estate will outlive all of her murderous neighbours.

The Lowdown:
A world which Jane Austen would never have recognized; this is the “Wild West” of Wales, where the residents of all classes have to learn to live with corruption, poverty, murder and mayhem. So it’s rough and it’s tough. We’ve gone for multiple episodes with minimal use of flashbacks and with intersecting story arcs. Martha, the heroine, is involved in the action for most of the time. Hers is the A-narrative......... and there are other narratives too.

 
Nothing like this has ever been done before. It has a charismatic and very imperfect heroine, an emotional scope that is Shakespearean, a fabulous setting, a cast of eccentric characters that Dickens would have been proud of, and more humour than one might expect in a drama which contains gang rape, a miscarriage, an epidemic and a high body count. And it also has magic.......