Genesis II is now in development to pitch to Studios such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple and others. Talent agent and producer Ephraim Walker (Fruitvale Station, Final Purge, and the soon to be released Netflix movie “The Formula”) and screenplay writer/director Jehnovah Carlisle are now working in collaboration with AlKimy Creations, Allen Ling’s new entertainment company, to rework 6 chapters of Genesis II into a treatment capable of being in the big or small screen.
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“Forward-thinking comic that is years ahead of its time, with a gripping sci-fi story that pulled me in and wouldn’t let me go! This book has great characters, a compelling story” – from a review by MajorSpoilers.com
“A comic with an interesting narrative that leads the reader to think, analyze and ponder the world around him.” – Thunderwave Brazil
Genesis II is set in near-future San Francisco. Humans have mastered space travel and inter-species genetic engineering. Governments are in shambles, and corporations operate as nation-states with private militia.
Lisa, a scientist researching ground-breaking – and potentially world-ending – technology, has attracted the attention of a malevolent corporate tyrant. Daniel, along with his GMO animal hybrid guardians, fights to rescue Lisa and prevent global genocide.
Ephraim Walker is a Creative Producer from Oakland, CA. It was during his time at USC that Ephraim met Ryan Coogler. After graduating, Ephraim took a legal position with The Law Offices of John L. Burris, where his first assignment was to work on the controversial case of Wanda Johnson v. BART (The Oscar Grant Case). Ephraim reached out to his film school buddy Ryan Coogler, and they went on to create and produce the hit Indie film Fruitvale Station, where Ephraim served as Consultant Producer. For his next feature film project RIDERS, a gritty crime drama set in West Oakland, he has received the prestigious 2013-2014 San Francisco Film Society Filmhouse Grant, and was also a finalist for the 2014 Sundance Creative Producers fellowship. He is currently a co-producer for a new Netflix film “The Formula” starring John Bojega and Robert De Niro, working with Director Gerard McMurray and their film company Buppie Productions.
Jehnovah Carlisle is an award winning independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Carlisle graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Film. Carlisle also graduated from California College of the Arts with a MFA in Film Production. The short films that Carlisle has written, directed and produced have dealt with the realities of African American men haunted by troubled pasts, burdened by institutional racism, and scarred by trauma. These are topics stemming from his own life experiences, and it has been his purpose to address those topics with fresh and unique ways of storytelling. Carlisle has experience in multiple genres (drama, comedy, crime) and also documentary filmmaking. His short films have screened nationally and his personal films are deeply rooted in the Bay Area community where he was born and raised. He was a San Francisco Film Society artist in resident in 2018. Carlisle taught screenwriting at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, California, and is now a staff writer for Buppie Productions, a film production company.
Allen Ling is an entrepreneur in medical businesses, real estate (interior design, construction, development and sales), comic book creation and publishing, and music production. He has an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley in Microbiology as well as Computer Sciences and a Masters Degree from USC in Physical Therapy. He is currently the CEO of Physical Therapy Innovations, and has successfully started up over a dozen small businesses over the last 3 decades. He has been involved as a physical therapist in the film industry, first at Pixar Animation Studios in 2000 as well as the AMC series “Into the Badlands”. In late 2019. he executive produced a multiple award winning dramatic short written and directed by Jehnovah titled “Junior”, and then also wrote and produced a music video “Straight Into The Ocean” that has won dozens of awards internationally since it was release December 2020.
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