West Coast 2

From the *Skyrider* saga

W A L K I N G   O N   A I R

TITLE

(Above)

GENRE

Wilderness, Western, Adventure-Drama

MEDIUM

Television mini-series: via Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Starz, Amazon, etc.

This mini-series fits this medium because the journey is broad in scope and timespan of the story takes years with many tales within the tale itself.

PLATFORM

ADDITIVE COMPREHENSION

Origin Story – Character

Character Reveal

Anticipated Showdown

Storyworld Reveal

Other Micro Reveal

TARGET MARKET

All Races

18-60-year-old men & 21-40-year-old women

The media habits of this demo-graph leans on the more mature audience, border lining the PG-13 rating, to the rated R content. The younger views here are drawn to high class dramatic episodic streaming shows that are readily available. The older group in this margin are life educated people; family men and women, readers and hobby historians.

PROTAGONIST

Will Carlson (famer)

ANTAGONIST

Lt. Ridge (Inspections Officer/Vulture pilot)

MAIN SUPPORTING CHARACTERS

Mattie Carlson (wife to Will Carlson)

Tomahawk (Native American child sidekick)

PIRMARY LOCATIONS

The Carlson Farm:

Where the Carlson’s have farmed fuel resources and agriculture for decades.

The Air Fields:

A periodically military occupied desert wasteland, due to the fallout of The Great War on U.S. lands. It is 50% of America’s desert region.

The Nest:

A military station just out the rim of the “Air Fields.”

THE STORY

A fallout war zone in the middle of the U.S. desert has become quarantined for a decade. This is known as The Air Fields. It is a top secret smoke-screened grouping of farming communities under oppression from new post Great War American government. Outside of The Air Fields, away from “war toxins,” all throughout the country, citizens are oblivious to the truth and live contently.

Because of the deep vastness in this region, some of these farming towns are thriving, while others have become rough ghost towns. Many of these ghost towns are under neglectful rule and have become a wasteland for gambling, thieving, and villainy. However, in a more working class area in The Air Fields, lives a farmer and his wife, the Carlson family.

WALKING ON AIR tells the odyssey of Will Carlson. Will is a fuel and agriculture farmer where he grows his crops for the flying military. Will is man of place. He takes pride in his work and takes care of everyone he can. The Carlson farm is on a shortlist of priority regular inspection by a young, arrogant, and ambitious Fox, Lt. Ridge. Ridge is up for promotion and is striving to become a most feared aerial Vulture.

One day, unknowingly, the Carlson’s farm was up for a random inspection when they had a neighboring family over for dinner where they spoke of freedom and a resistance the growing in the capital city of Elysian and a young man who is leading the charge by looking for the last Skyriders. Upon the raid, due to the large food proportions beset on the dining room table, Ridge and his troops brutally murder the guests and Will’s beloved bride Mattie. They leave the man in his grief only to farm until he dies.

Days later and only knowing of a young man seeking the same as he, Will leaves behind the world he knows, to find the near mythological freedom fighters once known as the Skyriders, to end this time of dictatorship and injustice. Will lights his entire farm ablaze as a sign of rebellion, also as a smoke signal to attract the newly appointed Vulture Lieutenant, Ridge. Upon aircraft incoming, Will shoots down Ridge and his escort by using one shot each. Will has killed the accompanying wing man in the crash, but leaving the Lieutenant wounded for which Will does not now. A manhunt has begun.

Now, at the whim of the wilderness, Carlson and his horse must survive the elements, traveling through sinful towns, and distinguish friend from or foe, as his seeks justice upon the wings of liberty in the form of the legendary Skyriders. Is Carlson a simple farmer or something more.