TITLE: OUR NAME IS ADAM

COVERAGE DATE: February 24th 2016

WRITER: T.S. Nowlin and Mark Levin &

GENRE: Action

Jennifer Flackett
LOCALE: USA

CIRCA: 2013, 2000, and 2043

FORM/LENGTH: Feature/118 pages

DRAFT:

BUDGET ESTIMATE: Mid to High

ANALYST: Caroline Patterson

LOGLINE: Adam is used to hiding in the shadows of his Golden Boy brother. That is until hes
the only one who can help a stranger from the future save the world.
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SYNOPSIS: Adam is used to living in his older brother Tommys shadow because Tommy is
good at everything: sports, school, even girls. The only thing Adam is good at is looking 9 when
hes really 12. One night when their mom is on a date and Tommy is out studying, Adam finds
an astronaut in the shed. Upon further investigation, Adam learns that this is not just any
astronaut, but one from the future who needs to repair his spaceship to complete his mission to
stop time travel from ever being invented.

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Adam convinces his mom that the Pilot is his science tutor, but Tommy is more suspicious and
interrogates Adam and the Pilot at dinner about their science project. Later in the space ship,
the Pilot reveals that hes really Adam from the future and that the other members of his team are
trying to bring him in. The Captain catches up to them, but Adam and the Pilot manage to get
away. Only now Adams mom thinks Adam has been kidnapped. He calls Tommy just to let him
know hes safe, but that leads the other astronauts right to them, the leader of which is Tommy
from the future.
When they get away, Adam wants answers. The Pilot explains that Tommy and a man named
Arnand Zucker had come to Adam to join an experimental space program. They hadnt expected
to discover time travel, but once they did, they agreed to not go to the past for personal gain.
Only it turned out that Zucker had been doing nothing but that all along. When JR, one of the
team members and the Pilots crush, found out, she confronted Zucker and he killed her. But
when the Pilot ran, the rest of the team believed he killed her. Now the Pilot wants to go back in
time to stop Zucker and his partner Marie Gordon from their research, but to do that they need to
go 10 years in the past, and for that they need a new ship.
They go to find the younger (and alive) JR in Colorado. Adam gives her a note the Pilot wrote
explaining future events, but shes skeptical until the Pilot reveals facts about her that he
wouldnt have known unless he was telling the truth about being from the future. Suddenly the
future JR arrives and steps out of her commandeered spaceship. Apparently the note gave her
coordinates and instructions on how to escape before Zucker could kill her. But Zucker has
managed to upgrade his technology and intends to go back to ancient times and conquer the past.
The only way to stop it is to go back in time before Marie Gordon is killed in a car accident, and
warn her about the outcomes of her research.
When they make it to London, its the day of Maries fatal car accident so Adam has limited time
to save her. But he manages by commandeering a bus and blocking the crash that would have
killed her. However, saving her is only part of the problem. Unfortunately its harder to convince
people of time travel when it hasnt been invented yet. They follow Marie on her way to Zucker,
and she starts to believe what their story. The Pilot feels that the only way to insure that time
travel doesnt happen is to kill Zucker before he can get any further with his research, but he
cant bring himself to do it.
Meanwhile, one of the other team members, Jasper, has gotten fed up with chasing Adam and
intends to kill rather than capture him. But the Captain gets to him first and brings him and JR in.
Young Adam is left with a detonating device and told to think like the Pilot would. With Maries
help, he makes it to Zuckers NextStar base in the year 2000 while the Pilot and JR are with
Zucker in the same base 43 years in the future. As Zucker explains how he intends to expand
time travel and create a new world, Adam is rigging the device to go off precisely when the Pilot
and JR need it to, July 4, 2043.
The Pilot takes Adam home, explains what not to do, and tells him now to make his own
mistakes. The film ends with a montage of Adam graduating high school, marrying JR, and
becoming a snowboarder as an elderly man with his eyes watches from the stands.

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COMMENTS: This script is very well written the characters make sense. And even if the
characters dont have much screen time (Bonnie and young Tommy) their characters are no less
developed than the others. Its nice that each character is introduced in a way that gives the
audience clues about their personalities through dialogue (usually with Adam) and relationships
with the other characters. It can be difficult to convey character arcs successfully with time
travel, but the authors do a good job of developing their characters further through the writing
and plot.
The writing is smart and not forced and the story allows for some foreshadowing but also some
plot twists. For instance, in the beginning, before the Pilot reveals hes Adam, the audience could
assume hes either their Dad or Tommy. Its nice to be thrown off a little. Something particularly
successful with this script is that the characters all sound different. They each have their own
voice and the dialogue between characters still sounds natural.
Story wise, there are probably some aspects the author might need to explain further (if not in the
script at least to the director/actors) because time travel is a complicated subject. For instance, if
they stopped Marie Gordon from dying, wouldnt that already alter some of the future, or is it
only changed once she makes the decision to stop the program? So how much can little changes
affect the outcome or is it just the big changes or the series of multiple events that affect the
future?
Overall, the concept, although not completely new, feels fresh and based on this script would
probably play really well on the big screen.

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