Langdomverse

The ***Langdomverse*** is a horror-drama franchise created by EDStudios that encompasses *The Langdom Experiment* and its spin-offs, which currently consists of *The Langdom Files* anthology series and the upcoming trilogy of spin-offs: *Spiral*, *Zone* and *April*. It is a horror-thriller, and later post-apocalyptic, series that begins with the titular experiment - in-universe known as Project Babylon - in which the United States government purposely releases a bioweapon onto the quiet town of Langdom, Missouri that transforms those infected into ravenous, agile creatures referred to as the Turned.

The first season of *The Langdom Experiment* follows four families as they work together to escape the containment zone set up around Langdom, with further instalments following the survivors of the worldwide pandemic caused by the bioweapon, which is later known as "dollar rabies".

## Story and Setting

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The *Langdomverse* is a horror-thriller and later post-apocalyptic series set in a world ravaged by a viral weapon-of-mass destruction designed by the United States government known as the Langdom Bioweapon, or colloquially as "dollar rabies" due to the vector on which it primarily spreads. Once a human is infected by the virus, they are driven irreparably insane and aggressive, a state generally referred to as "Turned". After its first test release on the town of Langdom, Missouri, the virus spread all across the world, resulting in a worldwide pandemic that threatens to bring humanity to extinction.

## The Langdom Experiment (TLE) (2019-Present)

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*The Langdom Experiment* is the flagship instalment in the *Langdomverse* and follows the survivors of a deadly government-engineered viral bioweapon that transforms those infected by it into ravenous, animal-like creatures referred to as the "Turned". Originally set within the containment zone of the fictional town of Langdom, Missouri - used as a test site for the bioweapon by the U.S government - the series has since expanded from *Season 2* onwards to follow the few survivors of the experiment as they join and form new groups to try to survive a world that has descended into chaos due to the same virus, which has spread across the world and threatens to bring humanity to extinction. The series' second season was written in late 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the third season to be written in 2021.

Although the series has no single protagonist, it currently centres around five primary characters who survived the events of *Season 1*: Adam Levitt, a young man with an old soul who others have turned to as a leader despite his young age; Cassie Levitt, Adam's younger sister who is somehow immune to the bioweapon; Abby St. John, Adam's girlfriend and later wife who is barely holding out hope for civilization returning to normal; Charlie Everett, a mute, high-functioning autistic boy who possesses hidden skills ideal for surviving in the new world; and Lloyd Smith, a young drifter who steps up to protect Charlie and joins the CRM to help bring back a semblance of civilization. The series currently utilizes a dual storyline, with one storyline following Adam, Cassie, Abby and their group as they learn to adapt and accept their new world, and a second following Lloyd and Charlie as they join the CRM in an effort to restore the world, therefore adapting to the new world but not being able to accept it.

### Plot

*A genetically-engineered bioweapon has been unleashed on the population, turning those infected into ravenous animalistic creatures that seek only to hunt those who survived. With the world locked in a worldwide pandemic, the survivors of the first release must gather new allies and adapt. Whether they will learn to accept their new world remains to be seen, as they contemplate just how brutal their actions must become.*

### Conception and Development

#### Conception

Following the conclusion of their previous post-apocalyptic horror series *The Walking Dead by EDStudios*, EDStudios began development of a new horror story. Under the title "The Langdom Experiment", the story was originally a six-episode limited series set in the eponymous town.

## The Langdom Files (TLF) (2020-Present)

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*The Langdom Files* is an anthology series conceived to bridge the gap between seasons of *The Langdom Experiment*, with the first season of *TLF* being released between *Season 1* and *Season 2* of *TLE* and the second season of *TLF* released between *Season 2* and *Season 3* of *TLE*. Each season of *The Langdom Files* follows a different set of characters and their actions while largely ignoring the events of the main series.

The first season, "*World Gone Mad*", follows convicted serial killer Jack Lee as he attempts to find redemption by caring for a little girl named April in a world overrun by the Turned. The second season, "*American Dreams*", will follow a CRM soldier named Sam as he journeys to Baltimore to find his missing parents. A third season, "*Stay Human*", is in early development.

## Spiral (2021-Present)

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The first in a trilogy of full-length spin-offs to *The Langdom Experiment*, *Spiral* returns to the horror-centric roots of the series as it follows a group of survivors in downtown Houston, Texas who take refuge in a Tower.

### Plot

*The world has been turned upside down by a pandemic of dollar rabies. Order has become chaos. Law has become fiction. Cities fall within hours. The government has collapsed.*

*The world is going dark.*

*And for those that survive waits a world spiralling out of control. As they stare death in the face every second of their lives, they must hold on to what makes them human. After all...what else separate them from the monsters that hunt them?*

*Welcome to a world of misery. Of madness and dispair.*

*Welcome to a world remade.*

## April (2021-Present)

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The second in a trilogy of upcoming full-length spin-offs to *The Langdom Experiment*, *April* will feature the eponymous character from *The Langdom Files: Season 1* following the events of that instalment.

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*Following the tragic conclusion of "World Gone Mad", young April heads out into a wild world overrun by the infected. Guided by the lessons that she has learned, April must either either face the world alone, or confront its horrors and decide who she will become.*

## Zone (2022-Present)

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The third in a trilogy of upcoming full-length spin-offs to *The Langdom Experiment*, *Zone* will be set in the Northwest Oregon Containment and Exclusion Zone (NOCEZ), a containment zone filled with unimaginable dangers unlike anything seen on the outside.

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*Even with the world consumed by darkness and dispair, there are places that are far worse. In the wilderness of northwest Oregon lies a place forgotten by the outside, with the inside populated by unimaginable horrors. Torn apart and thrown into chaos by the mistakes of the old world, it takes more than skill to survive. It takes luck. Becuase as everyone knows...no one escapes the zone.*

## The Eldridge Tapes (2021-Present)

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A mini-series set in the early days of the pandemic, *The Eldridge Tapes* revolve around the eponymous tapes that document the experiences of a group of urban explorers and their ultimate fate.

## Future

Aside from *The Langdom Files* and the upcoming trilogy of spin-offs, EDStudios is interested in further expanding the series universe by writing *Langdomverse* stories set in other areas in the world, such as South Korea and Germany, both of which are confirmed to have been severely affected by the dollar pandemic.