PERPETUAL

Novel to Movie

INVENTOR AND DREAMER PITTED AGAINST THE STATUS QUO

ABOUT

Matthew, a savant all-American genius and his beguiling sidekick, Maria, witness an inventor’s son riddled with bullets, discover the solution to our insatiable energy needs, then race against seemingly insurmountable odds to save the invention and perhaps the world.

His own words haunt Dr. Jackson after his wife’s suspicious death. Can a reclusive man at a Lake Michigan compound, surrounded by security tighter than the White House, protect his son and himself from ever-powerful enemies? A generation later, an all-American whiz kid named Matthew Eaton learns the answer

THE PLOT

to that question. Who, if anyone, will control Dr. Jackson’s miracle of science? 

Perpetual bursts off the screen when Matthew witnesses three men gunned down before his eyes. But not before he and Maria are handed the keys to solving one of society’s greatest dilemmas—how the world can fuel its insatiable energy demands. Drawn by a chance encounter into the life of a charismatic stranger called Cracker Jack, Matthew is soon dodging bullets from evildoers—to whom profit trumps life. 

While Matthew and Maria take flight along the East Coast in a battered VW Bus, seemingly unrelated events unfold around the globe, some set in motion decades before Matthew was born. Can Matthew trust those closest to him? Can he trust the FBI? Can he trust anyone?

Pitted against daunting forces—U.S. government-trained assassins, the oil industry, and Middle Eastern Islamic extremists—trouble abounds for Matthew and Maria at every turn. Their allies, a disheveled FBI agent and a mysterious philanthropic tutor, may be helpless to save them. Matthew faces choices that inevitably alter his fate and the future of all those around him, choices that could change the entire world.

to that question. Who, if anyone, will control Dr. Jackson’s miracle of science?  Perpetual bursts off the screen when Matthew witnesses three men gunned down before his eyes. But not before he and Maria are handed the keys to solving one of society’s greatest dilemmas—how the world can fuel its insatiable energy demands. Drawn by a chance encounter into the life of a charismatic stranger called Cracker Jack, Matthew is soon dodging bullets from evildoers—to whom profit trumps life.  While Matthew and Maria take flight along the East Coast in a battered VW Bus, seemingly unrelated events unfold around the globe, some set in motion decades before Matthew was born. Can Matthew trust those closest to him? Can he trust the FBI? Can he trust anyone? Pitted against daunting forces—U.S. government-trained assassins, the oil industry, and Middle Eastern Islamic extremists—trouble abounds for Matthew and Maria at every turn. Their allies, a disheveled FBI agent and a mysterious philanthropic tutor, may be helpless to save them. Matthew faces choices that inevitably alter his fate and the future of all those around him, choices that could change the entire world.

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INDEPENDENT FILM BUDGET AND REVENUE

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LOCATION

MAINE TO MIAMI AND BACK…

Perpetual is spring break busting into a deadly chess game. Matthew is in check and Maria is the queen – in eminent peril. 

PROFIT

PERPETUAL is about greed, money and power against honest intentions. Who has the most to gain & the most to lose?Geopolitical chaos and geographical subplots. Who runs the Deep State P7? Who is Kip Ackerman the intrepid reporter?

Greed & Profit trumps. Life.

JEOPARDY

PERPETUAL is about young lives in peril. Can our heroes survive the onslaught? The conspiracy becomes real. What are our heroes willing to risk? Serene moments are followed by clear and present danger.

LOVE

PERPETUAL is about relationships in the eye of many storms. Maria's mother dies. A childhood infatuation blossoms. Matthew protects Maria. Maria adores and defends Matthew. Their love and passion is pure yet on the edge. Mr. E falls for two women he cannot have. Sean stalks the only women he ever ... wanted.

MYSTERY

PERPETUAL is about finding the truth. As the truth eludes our heroes. Who is Zebo? Who is the CIA NOC? Will the antiterrorist terrorists bring Jihad? Who is Cracker Jack? Why kill him? What's in the duffel bags hidden in the VW Bus? Is the FBI complicit in the conspiracy? How did all that money get in Matthew's bank? What's up with Mr. E and Matthew's mom. Who is George the tow-truck driver, really? What is the research? What is the Manifetso? What is Matthew's malady and how did it start?

CONSPIRACY

PERPETUAL is about Matthew’s life driven by fate. Or is fate a conspiracy set in place years and decades before. Who can Matthew trust? Are the good guys involved in a global conspiracy to destroy or steal Jackson’s invention? Matthew lands in the center of their schemes.

MATTHEW

Our protagonist, Matthew is an energy quantum science savant – and all-American in sports. His true love is Maria, though he doesn’t quite get it! He loves his mother and tries to understand his difficult father. He reveres his brother, Sean, 16 years older than himself, and his mysterious mentor Mr. Felix “Zebo” Estebanez. 

Matthew battles with prophetic nightmares that somehow relates to his close relationship with the MICMAC Native American tribe of Northern Maine. He suffers from a worsening related painful malady. As our protagonist matures, he realizes he has been a puppet in a conspiratorial destiny. Yet, he embraces this destiny as his own. It’s now his responsibility. Matthew is determined to bring safe low-cost renewable energy to the world without regard to risk.

MARIA

Matthew’s sidekick. M&M were tight from the day they met at her mother’s funeral. Maria was six. She knew that day, he was her guy. She is fiercely devoted to two men, her father and Matthew. Spunky, sensual, and playful. She develops a fascination with criminal psychology when she identifies with Clarice Starling. Read More...
She drags Matthew into Silence of the Lambs. While Matthew cringes at the site of blood and horror, Maria is captivated and sets her career sites on becoming the best CSI on the planet! Maria is 110% Godello Region Spanish, and it shows in her strong personality. When she’s mad, she reverts to Spanish and knuckle punches poor Matthew. She’s petite and dark with Onix hair and eyes. She’s gorgeous beyond belief.

CRACKER JACK

Our mysterious storyteller in Miami Beach. Cracker Jack comes into M&M’s lives in a flash telling a wild story about the future world saving source of energy and how the FBI and all forces of evil are after him and the product. Cracker Jack’s mysterious relationship to M&M unravels through the entire series and drives the plot. Jackson’s loyal son is raised in the fortress and hidden lab on Lake Michigan. Read More...
Tremont meets and become best friends with Matthew’s brother, Sean, through whom he learns about Matthew, and like himself and his father, his savant gift for science. Tremont played basketball guard for Bobby Knight U of I. He joins the Marines with his pal Sean as he always had a desire to live up to both of his grandfather’s military traditions. He eventually realizes that his place is at his father’s side and returns to Indiana just in time to accompany his father to D.C. -- to present CJ Energy to WCASE World Council on energy – and all hell breaks loose. Posthumous, Tremont and his father remain a factor throughout the series.

ESTEBANEZ

Perpetual’s most mysterious, elusive, debonair, and intriguing character. Mr. E, as M&M come to call him, is entwined in everyone’s lives with purpose. “There is no such thing as a Conspiracy Theory. It’s either a conspiracy or it’s not, ” he says. As a child Matthew thinks of his mentor as 007. As Matthew matures, he perceives that his mentor is just a man replete with faults. (plot buster) Similar to his hero worship of his brother Sean, Read More...
he is helpless to thwart the wiles of good intentions, those he comes to call his puppeteers. He lets people and circumstances move him toward his destiny. Estebanez cares about duty, honor, and country. But when his close friend, Cameron Jackson, is murdered, he comes to terms with what he loves -- the Jackson and the Eaton families. He will direct and protect our heroes if it kills him. Mr. E evolves as a human—from CIA NOC to caretaker and protector. Felix has loved two women anywhere near close to his age, Jackson's wife, and Matthew's mother. What a quandary.

SEAN

Is Sean schizophrenic or does he know exactly what he is doing? Both hero and heel, Sean is sixteen years older than Matthew and best friends with primary plot character Tremont Jackson. Read More...
Sean’s love for Matthew is apparent but it doesn’t keep him from carrying out many dastardly deeds that affect his baby brother and all those around him. Sean adores his mother and despises his war hero father. He is a prime character throughoutthe series.

DR. JACKSON

The inventor of the CJ Energy cell is posthumously a primary character throughout the trilogy--before and after his death. He lives to raise his only son after the death of his beloved Karen, read more...
who he believes was murdered as a warning. Jackson builds a fortress on the shores of Lake Michigan and develops his inventions--those that drag our heroes into the plot--in an amazing secret subbasement laboratory. Fifty years of research wind up in our hero’s chariot.

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS

THE MICKMAC’S OF MAINE

DEMOGRAPHIC TARGET

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THE TEAM

~WRITERS:Brian Huey (Author of the Perpetual Series).

~DIRECTOR:Connor Pannell: (Americana).

~DIRECTOR:Michael Goitanich (Black Creek).

~DP/Cinematography:Matthew MacCarthy (The Spectacular Now).

~Executive Producer:Brian Huey (Author).

~Marc Ford:Writer/Producer (20th Century Fox)

~Producer:Gilbert Adler (Superman Returns, Valkyrie, Tales of the Crypt).

~Producer:Brian Espinosa: (Walking With Herb).

~Actor list:200+ auditions. Primo cast and crew.

~Pending:Andy Garcia.

/ STATUS:Development.

/ GENRE:Action/ Suspense

/ BUDGET:TBD

/ Disclaimer

Actor screenshot depicted in this sketch and website are for visual illustration, and or licensed, and may or may not be attached to and not to be assumed as attached to or part of this project at the time of this viewing. The team list is subject to change and as is normal in the industry, some relationships may be in discussions.

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