GENESIS

'So?' John asked. 'Am I mad?'
'No' replied Prophet. 'But pretty soon you may wish you were'...

Genesis is an 8-hour, 12 episode, psychological supernatural epic that explores what
makes us human. Is it our soul, is it our morals, is it innate or given by the gods?
Set in modern day England, and the US, we explore a world that looks like our own, but
where gods play with the fate of men and men can change the fate of worlds.

GODS AND MEN
In ancient times, the gods were a fact of life for the Greeks, Romans and Vikings.
Their hand was seen in everyday events, they walked among us and people could
talk to them and challenge them. To our ancestors, our lives seemed like pawns
on the gods chessboard but they also knew the power of one man’s actions could
change the fate of the world. The voyages of Ulysses in the Iliad, the myths of
Hector, Jason, Perseus and more are set in a world where gods converse with
men and it is possible to change the fate of the gods themselves.
In Genesis it is JOHN who is our unlikely and reluctant hero. Ambiguous
happenings drive him to the brink of sanity as he, and we together, explore the
very fabric of our reality and our world.
Genesis is based around an alternative creation myth like those from the past.

CREATION MYTH: BACK STORY
At first, there was only Solaria: one world of light ruled in
harmony by the gods ASAFRON and ZARA. But Zara grew
resentl and sought to rule alone. Trying to maintain the
universe’s equilibrium Asafron fought back but was forced to
banish her sister. With nowhere to go Zara created her own
dark world to reside in - ArkDaemous. There she housed the
army of those who chose her over her sister, but Asafron
couldn’t let them leave without trying to save them. But her
efforts went awry. Instead of saving the souls, her powers
rent them in two. Everything good remained with her and
everything that was bad in their soul went with her sister.
Seemingly divided for all eternity, the battle between the
broken armies raged in the heavens.
It soon became clear that Zara’s soldiers were growing
weaker. They needed the healing light of Solaria and couldn’t
recover in the darkness away from their home. So Zara used
her powers of creation to bring forth the Earth, which bathed
in Solaria’s light directly between the two homes of the
gods.
Their lives on Earth became crucial to the heavens' war
effort. If there was more light in the soul, it returned to
Solaria, more darkness and it went to ArkDaemous. Finally a
way to end the deadlock had arrived. Whoever could win over
the most souls on Earth could gather the biggest army and
win the ultimate war for power.
To this day, Zara and Asafron work to influence humanity as
part of their ongoing struggle for power. Our history is the
result of their efforts. In Genesis, a new tactic will lead to
unforeseen consequences that pit human nature against the
divine will of the gods. Zara decides to send part of her own
soul to Earth to tip the balance in her favour.
In doing this, the heavenly equilibrium saw part of Asafron's
soul be born to the earth also. These two humans, the only
pure souls in the universe mark the end of days. The final era
in the war for power is upon us.
She sent the weakest of her army there to recuperate. This
action unwittingly dragged their counterparts from Asafron’s
army as well. Humanity was the result - the only complete
souls in the divided universe. As each person is born the two
halves of a soul enters and ses back together. But in doing
so they lose their knowledge of the heavens.
As people aged and died, the gods realised the reunited
souls stayed together aer their mortal death. Where the
souls returned to depended on the balance of good and bad
in them.

STORY: SET UP
We begin in a dockland warehouse somewhere in the United States. It’s the mid 1980s. It is the depth of night and a
terrified young woman, ELLEN, is giving birth alone while a mysterious man, THE PROPHET, mutters incantations and
anoints the doorway facing the dock. As soon as the baby is born, the Prophet wraps it and thrusts it into the woman’s
arms. Lights at the far end of the dockyard flicker and go out, the wind starts to howl. Tears stream down Ellen’s face as she
cries from the depths of her stomach “I can’t leave him,” we realise there is anher bundle in the blooded rags on the
floor!” The lights outside the entrance opposite go out. The Prophet hurries reluctant Ellen out of a small side door. “Go.
There isn’t any time. Do it for him.” He looks at the child in her arms. He turns away from her as in the shadows and mist
outside we see a group of strange figures moving towards him. He picks up a staff ready to fight them, before they can
enter, the Prophet takes the fight to them and we leave the scene.
We don’t know it until late into the season, but the fate of the twins is tied up with the fate of the Earth and all humanity.
Bh carry the souls of the gods ASAFRON and ZARA dormant inside them. For the two boys, JOHN and BEN, the separation
will also have a very human and personal effect and that is the story we explore at first. In an attempt to influence the
heavens, the gods have forgten the very human effects of life on Earth.
It will be many years from their birth before they come face to face for the first time. The Prophet does everything in his
power to stop it happening - hiding an entire city from Zara’s awareness and patrolling in constant vigilance. He is the only
person aside from their parents and Asafron who know that two babies were born that night, and he knows he can’t keep
them apart forever.
Thirty years later, in suburban England JOHN is an A&E nurse, and is excited to learn he’s going to become a parent with
ALICE. It’s a happy moment and he proposes. Life seems good. His dreams and visions are under control with the help of
his therapist. Normality is almost within reach.

Act 1 (episodes 1-5)
This Act will set up John’s world and break it again. The driving force behind everything is his discovery that he’s n who he thought he was,
as the man he knows as his father enters A&E and his charts reveal he cann be John’s blood relative. On a quest to uncover the truth about
his past, John will set in mion a chain of events he won’t be able to stop. The fallout will break down the spells and prections that have
surrounded him his whole life and Ben finds out John exists. John’s dreams and visions he has held back all his life start to grow. He starts to
see more of the underlying truth in the world. He sees people still trapped on Earth aer death. He will start to doubt his sanity as he is torn
by the very real world relationships and the herworldly he tries to deny, as the two become more and more intertwined.
Across this Act, he helps a little girl in the hospital before and aer her death. Alice discovers John’s incredible supernatural paintings. Ben
tracks down his mher and though she tries to prove her love for him, he beats her to within an inch of her life. Even the loyalty of adoring
Alice is tested when all the evidence suggests it is John who near-killed his own mher.

Act 2 (episodes 6-10)
This Act will serve to convince John of his insanity and build the forces against him. Aer his mher’s beating, and those around him n
believing his innocence, grief-stricken John goes on the run.
Alice, heartbroken and losing faith, sleeps with best friend Chris. In our human world she is seeking rege in a friend. In the heavens
however, giving in to sin she is giving over her soul to ZARA.
The Prophet hunts Ben and they fight. The Prophet sacrifices his own sight in a powerl battle to stop Zara seeing where John is. Ben
chases clues towards John but finds Alice instead. John, half a world away on his own quest, tracks down his real father but he’s too late.
Ben’s act of savagery to the parent who stuck by him is a twisted message to his brher in the moment John discovers he’s a twin. John
races back to Alice. Finally some answers he can cling to. He can use to prove his innocence and his sanity.
However the euphoria of certainty is short lived as in the culmination of the Act, Ben kills Alice and, in a sick and twisted turn of events,
makes John believe that he’s done it. His wife’s blood on his hands, his DNA all over the scene. John has no choice but to turn himself in.

Act 3 (Episodes 11 - 12)
John enters Rose Park asylum and falls to his knees.
They try to treat him but even they are n ready for what they uncover. He meets a host of characters incarcerated for their
differences. John’s abilities mean he starts to see what his heart has always known and when The Prophet appears in the
asylum as a patient, John starts to allow himself to explore what lies outside the realms of reason.
Frustrated and unable to reach John himself, Ben converts the doctor treating him. With Zara’s forces closing in, John unlocks
his ability to see auras and use energy as he finally meets Asafron.
As the series closes, John’s body may be bound in a straight jacket in the depths of the asylum but his mind is now free to
explore beyond the confines of sanity.
In a final moment of hope Asafron reveals he has a small chance of saving Alice’s soul and the fate of the heavens themselves,
if only he would accept his fate and believe.

CHARACTER
JOHN CARSON: John is 30 and everyone he meets quickly realises there is something different about him. While he is warm, friendly and clearly caring, he has a
secretive side people find it hard to fathom. He is only secretive as it is the only way he knows how to be, he has always had to hide his dreams, his visions, no-one
would understand, he denies them even to himself. Others get unnerved by him and the way he seems to see the truth, no matter how good a liar you are. John can’t
help it – he is a demigod though he doesn’t know it. Part human and part Asafron, the god of light, John will develop more abilities as the series goes on. Brought up by
his alcoholic mher and stepfather on a council estate in a port city on the south coast of England, he seems anything but the god he is destined to become.
ALICE TATE : Alice, 28, is no sweet innocent, though her unlined clean-scrubbed face wouldn’t show it. Nhing shocks her, and people are oen surprised by her
acceptance of the horrors of life that accompany patients in A&E. This young doctor is determined to help and to do the right thing for her patients. Her utter
truthlness is what the job needs, even if her honesty can come across as hard at times. Working in emergency care, she sees humanity at its most vulnerable and the
cases she fails torment her. Alice is resourcel and self-reliant. She had to be aer a childhood with absent parents. Best friend Chris would love to change that, but she
hasn’t niced.
ELLEN CARSON: Ellen is 46. So young when she found herself pregnant, she wasn’t prepared for the curve ball life threw her. Since escaping with John and the Prophet,
she has increasingly sought rege in the btle. There isn’t a day goes by when she doesn’t think of the son she le behind, n that she could tell anyone, ever. So she
buries it away, one glass aer the her. Despite her drinking she is n a passive character, her mistakes and her determination to make up for her wrongs el her
fight and decisions. She has utter faith in the Prophet and will be guided by him through everything until she sees Ben again. She stays off grid and was happy to meet
John’s stepfather, Harry, when she arrived in England. It always seemed best to keep that past a secret and allow him to raise John as his own.
The Prophet is old. It’s possible he has lived for centuries. He meditates to
communicate with his god, Asafron, and she guides his life. He is her
general on Earth as he was in the pre-life. He is human but somehow,
through his learning and deep understanding of the universe he has
become more than that. The Prophet has an ability to see possible tures,
a very human ability the gods revere as it’s something they don’t have. It
was a vision that led him to the pregnant Ellen and enabled him to save
John when he was born. He has stayed with Ellen and John hiding their
existence from celestial view, giving John a chance to grow and develop
his powers on Earth. The Prophet has seen the impact of being human on
our celestial souls and believes John must come to his own realisation
about his destiny. Asafron doesn’t entirely agree but trusts the Prophet. As
the series develops, she will urge him to push John into revelation.

BEN: Ben, 30, was abandoned by his mher and raised by his
father, Sean, in New York City. Surrounded by Zara’s minions
from birth he has grown into a powerl underworld crime
lord. He loves his father for staying with him and Sean is the
only person who can tell him no. Ben is a demigod – part
human, part Zara. He started to learn about who he was and
his powers from a young age. Encouraged to use them, he has
grown in a man whose name is feared and no-one wants to
be le alone with him. His nightclub base is a hedonistic
paradise. He is no stranger to sadistic violence but at times
his human fragility makes us question is there something
aside from evil within him?
Bh Ben and John have very
human reactions to supernatural
forces. Bh are torn between
their lives on earth and their
destiny.
ASAFRON: Asafron is the queen of the heavens, a god who wishes to restore balance and save as many souls from the darkness of ArkDaemous as possible. When part
of her was torn away and sent to Earth, she knew a crucial time was upon the universe. While her heart is pure good and she would like nhing more than to use this
opportunity to use humanity to draw out the good she once knew in her estranged sister Zara, she is also a mighty force and prector of the heavens, willing to fight
and destroy - but only if she must.
ZARA: Zara used to share the rule of the heavens with her sister but grew jealous. She encouraged the celestials to take sides and started a war to become the ultimate
ruler. Her anger at being ejected from Solaria to live in darkness across the heavens in ArkDaemous drives her. When she learned what was happening to the soldiers
she sent to recuperate from battle on Earth, that their souls were reunited with their Solarian counterparts and went whole to one of the two her worlds at death, she
knew this could change the stalemate that has raged in the heavens for millennia. Eager to persuade more souls to the darkness so she can win, Zara devised a way to
send part of her own soul to Earth, the only pure evil man to be born, with the plan of dragging the human race down so their souls would become hers. What she didn’t
account for was the same heavenly equilibrium that reunites part souls on earth, caused Asafron's soul to be born human and her pure-bred embodiment now too walks
the earth. When Ben finds out about John it is the first time Zara realises this. The cat and mouse chase of epic proportions is now on as the end of days draws near.
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THEM AND FEEL
Our fantastical story answers the biggest
questions of all time; 'what is reality? Sanity?
Humanity?' And tells tall tales of epic proportions,
grounded in the realism of one man's intimate
journey of discovery, that drives him to the brink
of madness and beyond. Roed in the very human
interactions of the characters around him.
PROPHET
Reason is man-made. There is
no reason here. You have to
open your mind to what lies
beyond the boundaries of the
rational.

With the backdrop of modern Britain and the U.S,
our story focuses on themes of the supernatural.
Themes such as those in Grimm, Constantine and A
Discovery of Witches, with the edge and realism
captured in European cinematography, in the likes
of Guy Ritchie's Arthur, Knightfall and Harry Pter.
Harry Pter
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Tone and style
They tell us to believe in things
we cannot see. People speak to
their Gods everyday, but most
would end up sectioned if God
ever spoke back. Just because the
moves the Gods make cannot be
confined to our understanding,
does not mean they cannot be seen
in everything. Just open your
eyes.
GENESIS
A Discovery of Witches
Director Sarah Walker
(c) Sky 2018
Since time began men have been weaving stories to explain the unknown. To
comfort themselves in their ignorance. GENIS is the story of our time.

From le to right
Grimm
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Knightfall
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GENIS CREATIVE
TEAM
Genesis creative team
combines decades of
experience in TV and film
Creation, Direction and Writing
with commercial sales and
brand understanding.
CREATOR: CHARLOTTE FANTELLI
Marie Claire's 'Empowering Woman of the Year' and ved
one of the 'Top 5 Female Entrepreneurs in the UK',
Charlte's first film Journey to Le Mans premièred in
Leicester Square and sold in over 120 countries across the
world. Her business BRANDED works within TV, Film and
Corporate sectors.
Charlte originally wre Genesis as a film script over a
10 year period, before discussing with industry friends
that it would make an utterly epic TV series. She brought
on board an expert series Writer and Director to help this
vision become a reality.
CO-CREATOR: EMMA PAGE
Emma has a wealth of experience writing Drama for television and film. Most
nably her work for BBC Drama which saw her work on series such as Holby
City and Silent Witness. A passionate writer Emma is particularly interested
in fantasy, science fiction and supernatural genres and was excited about
Genesis from the start.
She and Charlte have complementary skill-sets
and together the pair have brought Genesis
from a 90 minute script to a commercially
exciting 12-part TV series epic.

"Look around you, consider
this an opportunity. You are
not here by coincidence. Every
man, woman and child around
you is here through choices.
Yours, theirs and the gods.
What you do now you are here,
well, that is up to you."
– GENESIS
Let's work
together...
SERI DIRECTOR: T.J. SCOTT
T.J. Sct is an incredibly talented and experienced TV series Director as well as Producer
and Scriptwriter. Credits to his name include some of the most well-known box sets; Star
Trek, Damien, Bates Mel, Gham, Black Sails, Spartacus and Constantine. T.J's
experience and love of the genre make him the perfect Series Director for the series.

FRANCHISE POTENTIAL
While series one of Genesis is a well-structured, stand alone series, it only scratches the surface of the worlds we start to uncover and
questions we start to answer.
At the end of series one we leave John in the annuls of the mental asylum, about to delve into the realms the her side of his sanity. Series
two starts with John accepting his fate as demigod and training body and mind with the Lords of Martia (martial art Lords) learning to hone
his powers and starting his quest to take on his brher in the ultimate good and evil battle. His goal is to save the lost souls of the world and
more personally to save Alice's soul from an eternity in the Ark of Demons (ArkDaemous). In this series he explores rther the relationship
between the heavens and earth, gods and man, as well as face his own demons and explore what makes him - and us - human. That is when
he can escape the confines of Rose Park and the men the demonic forces have placed around him. And before he finds out that killing Ben
means dying himself... He has a very human choice to make.
Furthermore, once the battle for earth has been fought we open ture series pential to explore the heavenly battles that have waged for
centuries; the chambers of orbs, the trapped lost souls of Solaria, and the drive for power that ignited the war in the first place.
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Genesis is a gritty, hard-hitting, psychological thriller series with supernatural undertones.
Exploring reality, sanity and human nature.
The Prophet, a monk-like man mutters incantations as Ellen gives birth on the cold damp floor of the disused dockland warehouse. Try as he might
the skies draw black and the battle cries of the heavens can be heard. It takes every last bit of strength but the Prophet holds back the demonic
forces long enough for mher and baby to escape…
We are now drawn into the story through the struggles of central character John. At the age of 30, John, an A&E nurse has seen his fair share of
death. However, it is what he sees beyond this that torments him.
Haunted by nightmares, flashbacks and glimpses of the herworldly, John tries to cling on to his sanity, his beautil, pregnant wife Alice, and the
life he has worked so hard to build. Is he going mad? Or is there some truth to these apparitions? That the world was created by the devil.
Hunted by evil John can no longer black out the demons as he has done all his life.
Now driven by a need to finally know who he is, John can feel the danger closing in. Chasing down
revelations about his family and himself, he is shocked by the near-death of his alcoholic mher.
Who is he? Who can he trust? The Prophet is the only one who can help, but pulled by forces
outside his control, it is n safe for him to reveal these answers - yet. Fate catches up with John
and he is le with his wife’s blood on his hands, her body limp and lifeless in his arms. Did he do
this?
The cold, white pristine floor is welcome respite for John’s bloodied feet, cut from his time in hiding
in the city’s underbelly. He drops to his knees at the Rose Park Psychiatric Hospital; ‘I am Jonathan
Carson. I think I killed my wife.’
There, in his cell, a face he has known all his life. Battle scarred, his eyes now blind. The Prophet is here. ‘So?’
John asks, ‘am I mad?’
‘No,’ replies the Prophet, ‘But pretty soon you may wish you were’.
PRENTS
An 8 hour 12-episode series created by Charlte Fantelli (Journey to Le Mans, Gentleman Driver),
Co-creator Emma Page (BBC Drama: Holby City, Silent Witness). Series Director: TJ Sct (Damien, Constantine, Star Trek, Gham,
Bates Mel, Spartacus). Presented by BRANDED Marketing Limited trading as BRANDED Video Production, all rights reserved.