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*This article is about the actual Scarlet Swan universe. For the reboot and crossover, click here.*

## **Official Description**

### Produced by

Amree Aguinaldo & Lucas Hale

*"Swan song isn't in her vocabulary; revenge is."* - **Scarlet Swan**'s tagline

**Scarlet Swan** is the upcoming July 2021 film of **HM**, distributed by **Genius Inc**, written by **Haruto Miyano**, directed by **Parrissianne Bell**, and produced by Amree Aguinaldo and Lucas Hale. The film is based on the HM webisode called *Murders in Swan Lane*, which started as a joke and running gag of Chrysalis members back in 2019. It revolves around the "Chaotic Detective" Swan Swagmire chasing her criminal rival around, Langley Langston.

The film will star Stefan Sanchez as Felipe Gonzalo, **Austin Dy** as Langley Langston, Jace Blanchett as Miles Meyer, portraying Swan Swagmire is Amree Aguinaldo, and Jaxon Taylor and Jack the Ripper would be played by Lucas Hale.

## **Plot Synopsis**

Prior to the events of **Scarlet Swan**, Doctor Daryll Dupain diagnoses Felipe Gonzalo of progeria, a rare genetic case that causes children to age rapidly. At 15, Felipe's parents agreed to use cryonics in order to preserve his young body (and especially since he will be the only living relative with the Gonzalo surname) until his parents find a cure for it. While the boy is being preserved, Dr. Dupain turns to his other project, reviving one of the greatest serial killers, Jack the Ripper. At 2007, he successfully clones Jack, although he immediately kills the doctor and disembowels another police officer that stopped him.

When Odette Quagmire is born on 2017, Felipe Gonzalo is released from cryopreservation and is now 34-years-old while still looking 15. Odette just had turned two years when her parents were suddenly killed by a man which everyone assumed was the work of Jack the Ripper's clone, and when Felipe heard about the news, he immediately took the girl into custody.

In the present day, Odette- now called by her friends and classmates as Swan Swagmire- believes that it was indeed Jack the Ripper who killed her parents, and that Langley Langston, a former delinquent classmate of hers in 4th grade, is also involved. She then learns that Jack was the one who killed the police officer in 2007, who was Miles Meyer's uncle.

## **Timeline**

#### **1888** (August-November)

The serial killer Jack the Ripper started killing the Canonical Five; Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly.

#### **1998**

At the young age of 15, Felipe Gonzalo is forced to take cryonics as suggested by Daryll Dupain, a 27-year-old genius doctor who also invents the IRIS in the same year for the preserved boy to give to when he wakes up.

#### **2007**

Daryll Dupain manages to revive Jack the Ripper from the dead by genetically engineering him; using his DNA to clone the said serial killer only for the young doctor to be killed by his creation instead. It didn't take long before the clone of Jack the Ripper, now named Jaxon Taylor, disembowels a 25-year-old police officer by the name of Marston Meyer.

#### **2017**

Odette Quagmire is born, and the now 34-year-old Felipe Gonzalo is released and revived from cryopreservation.

#### **2019**

The parents of Odette- now nicknamed Swan- die from Jaxon Taylor's hands, being the third and fourth victims of the killer. Swan was only 2 years old, leaving her under the care of Felipe Gonzalo back in Spain, being her legal guardian. While being promoted to Senior Detective in the precinct, he has full authority of the IRIS.

#### **2027-2030**

At 2027, 10-year-old Swan and Gonzalo moves to Swan Lane near Europe to begin training with the detective and is determined to figure out what actually happened to her parents that night. On 2030, she's classmates with Miles Meyer, and the two eventually become best friends. Miles then reveals that Jaxon Taylor also killed his uncle who died years prior.

#### **2033**

Swan is now 16, making her mentor and father figure Detective Gonzalo already in his early 50s while still physically looking 15, prompting people to think they're siblings.

## **Cast**

#### **Protagonist**

* Amree Aguinaldo as Swan Swagmire, the chaotic detective that wants justice for her parents who were killed by a serial killer when she was just 2 years old.

#### **Deuteragonist**

* Jace Blanchett is Miles Meyer, Swan's trusted but flirtatious partner and is the nephew of one of Langley Langston and Jack the Ripper's victims.

#### **Tritagonist**

* Stefan Sanchez as Detective Felipe Gonzalo, the last detective hailing the Gonzalo surname, prompting him to be cryopreserved for at least 19 years.
* Austin Dy as Langley Langston, a distant relative of the actual Jack the Ripper. He's dubbed as the long-time rival of Swan Swagmire who swore to catch him and Jack someday.

#### **Antagonists**

* Lucas Hale is Jaxon Taylor or Jack the Ripper, a serial killer from 1888 who was brought back to life via genetic engineering and cloning by Doctor Dupain, the same person who performed cryonics to Gonzalo.
* Naomi Campbell as Jill the Ripper, Jaxon Taylor's devoted assistant who lures Gonzalo into liking her by pretending to be Ava Everett, a young teenager who's Swan and Miles' age.

#### **Supporting**

* Haruto Miyano as Doctor Daryll Dupain, a French doctor who cryopreserved Felipe Gonzalo and brought Jack the Ripper back to life by using genetic engineering.

#### **Minor**

* Belle Bello is the voice of IRIS, Gonzalo's high-tech lab computer-companion for reading case files and documents.
* Rebecca Blake as Dorothy Suarez-Quagmire, Swan's late mother who was killed by Jaxon Taylor, along with her husband.
* Cardlin Sanchez is Siegfried Quagmire, Swan's late father who was killed by Jaxon Taylor, along with his wife.
* Dakota Mills as the police officer Marston Meyer, Miles' late uncle who was also one of Jaxon Taylor's victims.

## **Soundtrack**

* Swan Song- Dua Lipa (from Alita: Battle Angel) (2019, Swan Song album)
	+ Swan Song Instrumental with Backing Vocals
	+ Swan Song cover by Jace Blanchett and Amree Aguinaldo ft. Stefan Sanchez
* Sun Comes Up- Rudimental ft. James Arthur (2017, Sun Comes Up album)
* Confident Instrumental- Demi Lovato (2015, Confident album)

## **October 2021 Reboot**

SWAN: Murder in San Fran is the official title of Scarlet Swan's reboot, being a crossover between Scarlet Swan (July 2021) and Beyond Worlds (June-July 2021), as well as the first HIRAYA story written by **Stefen Sanchez**, **Lucas Hale**, **Kit Aguinaldo**, and **Austin Dy**. The story revolves around Swan Swagmire (renamed as **Shiratori Hakucho**) and her younger cousin Hiro Hamada, who she helps when she gets wind of Hiro's older brother, Tadashi's death.

## **Trivias**

* The film's title is originally "Bloodied Swan". It sounded a lot more sinister and serious than what writers want it to be, so they changed it to "Scarlet" which is still referring to the blood while still going for the alliteration.
* It was Amree Aguinaldo who thought of the film's tagline, and is now one of the most featured and iconic taglines in the history of both HM and Chrysalis, trailing behind Beyond Worlds' *"The two parallel lines that were never meant to meet become a tangent", and passing* After Solstice's *"She finds a best friend and a lover in the same person in the City of Lights and Love".*

* Scarlet Swan lacks two new and additional characters- Levi Leviosa and Hirai Hamada- from its original, Murders in Swan Lane. The reason for this is because Levi has no actual connection to the main characters and that she's only Gonzalo's right hand woman, while Hirai had been implemented at the last minute.
	+ Levi Leviosa is Belle Bello's alter-ego, and although she didn't make it in the film, Belle Bello's voice is going to be used for IRIS, Detective Gonzalo's lab assistant.
* Even though Langley's alter-ego in the webisode is Lucas Hale, he didn't want to portray him and instead went for the role of Jaxon Taylor, giving his cousin, Austin Dy, the opportunity to play as Langley Langston. Dy had second thoughts however, and at one point wanted to give Cj Sanchez the role, but didn't as Cj said he wants to sit on the sidelines for Scarlet Swan.
* Scarlet Swan began its production and shooting on June 5, 2021, and has only barely one month to finish filming as the film will be released the next month.
	+ Also, because of the worldwide pandemic, actors are forced to film in their homes using their gadgets and will submit to Lucas Hale and Parriss Bell for editing.
* Jaxon Taylor and Ava Everett were last-minute additions to the character line-up, although Ava came later than Jaxon.
	+ Because of Ava's addition, Langley has been moved up to be the secondary tritagonist (the first tritagonist being Gonzalo), and Ava took Langley's former place as the secondary antagonist.
* Swan Swagmire, Felipe Gonzalo, and Langley Langston are the only original characters since HM Minis: Murders in Swan Lane aired. The rest of the characters- Miles Meyer, Jaxon Taylor, Daryll Dupain, Ava Everett, and IRIS weren't and were added later on for the film.
* Scarlet Swan is the second franchise to have a reboot, the first is the SILENT pentalogy.

## **Gallery**

Scarlet Swan date teaserSwan Swagmire as the Scarlet Swan logoSWAN reboot cover