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“WELCOME TO THE BADLANDS”

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 1 | Page [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS

§ CREDITS 3

§ SYNOPSIS 4

§ CAST 5

§ WRITER/DIRECTOR /PRODUCER 14

§ DIRECTOR’S VISION 15

§ PRODUCER 16

§ DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY 17

§ COMPOSER 18

§ EDITOR 19

§ PRODUCTION INFORMATION 20

§ SCREENSHOTS 21

§ TRIVIA 25

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 2 | Page [email protected] CREDITS

Writer/Director/Producer: Josh Ridgway

Producer: Rishi Chitkara

Executive Producers: Richard Tyson Heath Calhoun Larry LeMaster Greg Fussell James Provence

Co-Producers: Jeff Murphy Freddie Poole

Director of Photography: Andy Lohrenz

Editor: Jeff Murphy

Composer: Wes Poland

Dresher: Richard Tyson

Kyra: Kayla Carlyle

John Anson: Matthew Tompkins

Brennan: Jimmy Wlcek

Shamrock: Vernon Wells

Reverend Raines: Clarence Gilyard Jr.

Stillwell: John Wesley Shipp

Senator Allen: Eric Roberts

The Finisher: Lance Henriksen

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 3 | Page [email protected] SYNOPSIS

GENRE Action/Scifi

TAGLINE “Welcome To The Badlands”

SYNOPSIS In a dystopian world, a bounty hunter sets out to capture a band of outlaws and uncovers a conspiracy that leads him to the unsettling truth about his own existence

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CAST

Richard Tyson as Dresher

Best known for his roles as Buddy Revell in 'Three O'Clock High', Cullen Crisp in 'Kindergarten Cop' (opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Perry in 'Two Moon Junction', Richard has time and time again proven his versatility as a leading man. With a long list of film credits including 'Black Hawk Down', 'There's Something About Mary', 'Kingpin', and 'Genghis Khan', Richard has shared the screen with a wide array of actors including Charleton Heston, Orlando Bloom, Ben Stiller and John Travolta. In addition to his extensive film and television career, Richard holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Cornell University and teaches acting.

Selected Filmography: Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime (2010), CSI: NY (2009) Black Hawk Down (2001), There’s Something About Mary (1998), Kindergarten Cop (1990)

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 5 | Page [email protected] Kayla Carlyle as Kyra

Born and raised in Texas, Kayla spent the majority of her childhood in Dallas. She recently graduated from Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) majoring in Psychology and minoring in Biology. Her father, James, is a business owner and her mother, Lari, is a nurse. Kayla has a younger brother, Chris, and a younger sister, Kaycee.

Selected Filmography: Jurassic City (2014), Major Crimes (2014), The Glades (2011)

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 6 | Page [email protected] Matthew Tompkins as John Anson

Matthew Stephen Tompkins, a native of Oklahoma City, is an award winning Actor and Indie Filmmaker/Producer with over 40 feature films, 80 TV roles, and over 100 plays to his credit to date, and currently makes his home in Dallas, Texas.

An avid athlete and Martial Artist, Matthew began studying acting seriously at the university level and wrote and directed two of the first student written productions ever produced in the 100 years of his alma mater, Whitworth University in Spokane, WA.

Dozens of roles on episodic TV, made for TV movies, Feature Films, and national commercials followed, and his work in the leading Theaters in Dallas/Fort Worth won him the Dallas/Ft.Worth Theater Critics Best Actor award 7 times between 1993 and 2009 for roles like King Henry in "Becket", Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire", Lenny in "Of Mice And Men", Valmont in "Dangerous Liaisons", Sharkey in "The Seafarer", the Title Role in "Othello", and Nelson Algren in "Transatlantic Liaison"

Selected Filmography: 11/22/63 (2016), Sicario (2015), Friday Night Lights (2011), Machete (2010)

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 7 | Page [email protected] Jimmy Wlcek as Brennan

James Wlcek began his screen career in 1987 on the series Tales from the Darkside. Progressing through the latter 1980's, Wlcek landed a role on Ryan's Hope from 1987-1989. That same year also landed him in his first notable film Steel Magnolias. Continuing his work into the 1990's James Wlcek found episodic work on several television soaps and series before his biggest breakthrough came in 1997. That breakthrough was a recurring role on the CBS action-crime series Walker, Texas Ranger. His character, Trent Malloy was a well-mannered martial arts instructor who would go on to help Walker and the Rangers take down bad guys. In the series, Wlcek's Malloy would often team up with his good Dallas Police friend Carlos Sandoval played by Marco Sanchez. This recurring screen presence later gained Wlcek a spin-off series created by 'Chuck Norris' called Sons of Thunder. As the 21st century arrived, Wlcek found work on other series including JAG and The Division.

Selected Filmography: JAG (2002), Sons of Thunder (1999), Walker, Texas Ranger (1997)

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 8 | Page [email protected] Vernon Wells as Shamrock Strong-featured Australian actor Vernon Wells was born in Rushworth, rural Victoria, to Eva Maude (Jackson) and Michael Wells. He initially worked in a quarry, and then as a salesman. He was noticed by casting agents and started to appear in Australian TV commercials, print ads, local Australian TV shows such as "Homicide" and "Matlock Police".

Wells was fortunate to be cast as the homicidal biker "Wez", in the big budget Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior filmed around Silverton near Broken Hill in outback New South Wales, Australia.

Hollywood beckoned for Wells, and he spoofed his mad biker role in the popular teen comedy Weird Science, before taking on another villainous role as the treacherous ex-soldier "Bennett.” Wells continued to find regular work as a "villain" of one description or another, predominantly in B-grade thrillers or action films including Last Man Standing, Circuitry Man, Kick of Death and Starforce. The talented Wells then landed a recurring role as futuristic criminal "Ransik" in the highly popular "Power Rangers" TV series.

Selected Filmography: Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2005), Power Rangers Time Force (2001), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 9 | Page [email protected] Clarence Gilyard Jr. as Reverend Raines

Gilyard's movie debut in 1986 was as Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Sundown in Top Gun. He was also a military man in the 1986 film The Karate Kid, Part II. He appeared in the 1988 action film Die Hard as Theo, a computer expert and thief. He also appeared as Reverend Bruce Barnes Left Behind: The Movie and its sequel, Left Behind II: Tribulation Force.

Gilyard is known for his roles as second private investigator and right-hand man Conrad McMasters, to Ben Matlock on the legal drama series, Matlock from 1989 to 1993; as Pastor Bruce Barnes in the Left Behind movie trilogy; as Cordell Walker's Texas Ranger partner, James "Jimmy" Trivette, on the 1990s crime drama, Walker, Texas Ranger, as Theo, the terrorist computer expert, in Die Hard and as Lieutenant (junior grade) Marcus "Sundown" Williams in Top Gun.

Selected Filmography: Walker, Texas Ranger (2001), Matlock (1993), Die Hard (1988), Top Gun (1986)

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 10 | Page [email protected] John Wesley Shipp as Stillwell Shipp played Martin Ellis on Santa Barbara in 1987 (for which he won his second Daytime Emmy), Blanchard Lovelace on One Life to Live in 1989, and Carter Jones on All My Children in 1992. For his work on ATWT, he won a supporting actor Emmy at the 13th Daytime Emmy Awards in 1986. He played a peeper on an episode of Fantasy Island. He played the title role of Barry Allen/The Flash in CBS's The Flash in the 1990– 1991[2][3] season, guest-starred in an episode of Human Target in 1992 on ABC, and was Lucky on NBC's Sisters in 1994 and 1995. Shipp would be involved with the Flash again by voicing the villain Professor Zoom ("The Reverse-Flash") in a 2010 episode of the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold, and being cast as Barry Allen's father, Henry Allen in the 2014 The Flash series for the CW network.

Selected Filmography: The Flash (2014-2015), Teen Wolf (2013), One Life To Live (2010), Dawson’s Creek (2001)

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 11 | Page [email protected] Eric Roberts as Senator Allen

A risky, no-holds-barred actor, Eric Roberts was often guilty of overacting if given half the chance. His film career began to slide in the late 1980s, appearing in more quantity than quality pictures. A series of missteps led to unheralded appearances in such bombs as the karate-themed Best of the Best; the NY urban thriller The Ambulance; the action western Blood Red, which took three years to release and is the only film Eric and his sister Julia Roberts appeared in together; and Rude Awakening when he filled in as a burned-out hippie opposite a Chong-less Cheech Marin.

More under appreciated "B" filming came with the 1990s (Freefall, Sensation, The Nature of the Beast, etc.), while also chewing the scenery with a number of mobster types in TV-movies, including one as "Al Capone". He soon began appearing as flashy secondary villains and creepies that showcased other stars instead, such as Final Analysis starring Richard Gere, Heaven's Prisoners top lining Alec Baldwin, and The Dark Knight, part of the "Batman" series with Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger.

Selected Filmography: The Human Centipede 3 (2015), Lovelace (2013), The Expendables (2010), The Dark Knight (2008)

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 12 | Page [email protected] Lance Henriksen as The Finisher

An intense, versatile actor as adept at playing clean-cut FBI agents as he is psychotic motorcycle-gang leaders, who can go from portraying soulless, murderous vampires to burned-out, world-weary homicide detectives, Lance Henriksen has starred in a variety of films that have allowed him to stretch his talents just about as far as an actor could possibly hope.

James Cameron cast Henriksen in his first directorial effort, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning, then used him again in The Terminator and as the android Bishop in the sci-fi classic Aliens. Sam Raimi cast Henriksen as an outrageously garbed gunfighter in his quirky western The Quick and the Dead. Henriksen has also appeared in what has developed into a cult classic: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark, in which he plays the head of a clan of murderous redneck vampires. He was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in the TNT original film The Day Lincoln Was Shot.

In addition to his abilities as an actor, Henriksen is an accomplished painter and potter. His talent as a ceramist has enabled him to create some of the most unusual ceramic artworks available on the art market today. He resides in Southern California with his wife Jane and their five-year-old daughter Sage.

Selected Filmography: The Blacklist (2015), Hannibal (2013), Scream 3 (2000), Aliens (1986), Terminator (1984)

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 13 | Page [email protected] WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

JOSH RIDGWAY Josh began writing short films in high school while working in video production. He moved to Los Angeles at the young age of 23 and began working for Warner Bros Studios in Hollywood, California. Josh moved around various departments of Warner Bros including television, marketing, and feature film development.

Josh worked on several stand alone Warner Bros features including the mega blockbuster "Superman Returns" for director Bryan Singer and Executive Producer Chris Lee. Josh then worked at Singer's production company "Bad Hat Harry" as an executive assistant before working at TNT under the VP of Programming Michael Wright.

Josh then moved into producing independent features starting with 'Earthling" starring Peter Greene (Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects) and William Katt (Greatest American Hero, Carrie) which won official selection at SXSW 2010. Josh then served as Executive Producer on the horror/slasher film "Hayride" and the Unaired Web Pilot "Travelers" that starred John Allen Nelson (24, Red Band Society, Vanished). In 2014, Josh wrote and directed his first science fiction feature film "The Sector" that stars Richard Tyson (Kindergarten Cop), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), Vernon Wells (Commando), and the iconic Lance Henriksen of Aliens and Terminator fame. Josh's future plans consist of building a library of films in the science fiction/fantasy/horror genres.

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 14 | Page [email protected] DIRECTOR’S VIEW

THE FILM

The Sector is inspired by the fear and intrigue of technology. I am truly fascinated by the reliance we as human beings have on everyday consumer products such as (iPhones, laptops, computers, GPS, etc) and how during my youth, some of these items were considered science fiction. I have always had looming thoughts in his head that whispered "what if technology goes dark?", "how would we live?", and "how would we survive?". This is how The Sector came to life.

THE TEXT

The screenplay was created in a nostalgic way to show homage to the great westerns and post apocalyptic films of the 1980's. I combined human drama, action, suspense, and comedic moments together. The script balances mind- bending thoughts of the possibilities of parallel universes, the end of the world, and the foundation of it all tied to government corruption.

STYLE & CINEMATOGRAPHY

I went with a very basic approach of using minimal lighting and guerrilla- style filmmaking technique to achieve the stark, over saturated, "nuclear winter" look of the film. I did not want any bright colors to give the audience any sense of hope or happiness. This is a dying world.

CHARACTERS & ACTING

The characters of The Sector were written and created by myself. I wanted to use the approach that each individual character could carry their own movie as I've always been fascinated by films of that nature.

Week’s prior to principal photography, I would talk for hours with certain cast members about their ideas and takes on their own characters. Being a former actor myself, I really wanted the actors to feel liberated in their performances.

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RISHI CHITKARA

Rishi Chitkara is originally from New York City. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.

Rishi participated in the DGA’s Assistant Director Training Program and has worked awards winning scripted shows such as New Girl, The Mentalist, Pretty Little Liars, and Hello Ladies.

As of 2015, he is pursuing his MFA degree in Screenwriting at UCLA.

Rishi has known The Sector director Josh Ridgway for close to a decade, having met him while working as an intern on Superman Returns.

This is their first collaboration together.

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DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

ANDY LOHRENZ

Andy Lohrenz is an up and coming Director of Photography with over a decade of lighting experience on nationally broadcast network TV shows, commercials, and feature length films. His work also extends to Guatemala, Mexico, and Vietnam.

Most recently he finished his work with horror film veteran Jon Keeyes (American Nightmare, Living and Dying, Nightmare Box) on the film ‘The Harrowing’, and doing 2nd unit stunts on ‘Daylight’s End’, Will Kaufman’s (The Prodigy, Sinners and Saints).

In-between shooting he keeps his lighting skills fresh by working on high profile television shows and feature films. Most recently he worked on Fast and Furious 7, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Woodlawn, and currently is working on the new TV show from NBCUniversal, ‘Queen of the South’.

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COMPOSER

WES POLAND Head of the Sound Department for Quest Pacifica, and L.A .native, Wes Poland, began his audio career as a musician. After years of writing music and playing shows throughout the popular Hollywood singer/songwriter circuit, he hung up his guitar and transitioned into producing, composing, and audio engineering. Since graduating from Video Symphony with a degree in audio engineering in 2010, he has worked on a number of projects in television, film, and music.

Some of Wes’ post production credits include Hulu’s original series, East Los High, Zumba World Party’s xBox One National commercial, and most recently Nickelodeon’s Mutt and Stuff. As he has always been passionate about music, he has recently mixed several artists including Meiko, American Idol stars Casey Abrams and Didi Benami, and famed rapper, Ryu of Fort Minor. Wes has impeccable musical sensibility and engineering skills, allowing him to compose original scores that bring to life films. With Sector, his score brings together synthesized instruments and classical composition to create a Sci-Fi thriller soundtrack with sentiment, sure to be felt deep in the bones of the audience.

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JEFF MURPHY

Since 1998, Jeff Murphy, founder of Quest Pictures and the recent Quest Pacifica, has built a career as an award-winning editor and producer who specializes in post-production and visual effects for film and television. Jeff provides a combination of “left-brain” strategy and “right-brain” creativity that allows him to understand the intricate details involved in each project.

Jeff has edited a number of feature films that include the award winning film Brothers Keeper and numerous A&E originals. He additionally acted as co- producer on both “Non-Stop” and “The Wrong Woman.” Along with his feature editing credits, Jeff’s television credits include the hit show on Nickelodeon "Mutt & Stuff". As a graduate Magna Cum Laude from the Columbia College of Hollywood film school, Jeff frequently speaks at seminars regarding his film and post- production experience.

In addition to his creative and unique editing style, Jeff has proved himself as a dependable producer and a great leader. Jeff’s understanding of post-production makes him a valuable asset to every production he works on. He is an excellent collaborator and knows exactly what is needed to deliver a polished product. From producing to on-set editing, to visual effects and the final cut, Jeff Murphy has the talent and resources that a successful production requires.

COPPER KID PRODUCTIONS 19 | Page [email protected] PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Produced by Copper Kid Productions

5342 Glenwick Lane Dallas, Texas 75209

(323)-633-8414 [email protected]

Produced by Quest Pacifica LLC

7650 Haskell Ave. Unit A Van Nuys, CA 91406

(818)-909-9911 [email protected]

Distributed by Indican Pictures

1041 North Formosa Avenue Formosa Building, Suite 221A West Hollywood, CA 90046

(323)-850-2667 [email protected]

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TRIVIA

Three of The Sector’s lead actors have played characters that were killed by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

- Richard Tyson (Dresher) as Cullen Crisp Sr. in Kindergarten Cop

- Vernon Wells (Shamrock) as Bennett in Commando

- and Lance Henriksen (The Finisher) as Detective Hal Vukovich in The Terminator

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