PLANET RESET Bible
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LOGLINE In 2048, with Earth on the brink of ecological collapse, one family must sacrifice everything when Planet Reset, an altruistic mega-corporation, unlocks time travel. CONCEPT PLANET RESET is an hour-long, scripted, grounded sci-fi drama set on an environmentally- ravaged Earth in the year 2048. In every major American city that remains, Doomsday Clocks countdown to the irreversible moment when our planet will become uninhabitable. With less than four months remaining, and with the world on edge, survival rests on the shoulders of Planet Reset, a powerful mega-corporation focused on sustainability. They’ve unlocked “Timelining,” a breakthrough that allows select people to be sent back in time to preempt events that have led to our environmental demise, all with the purpose of extending our future. This serialized show, which follows the three members of the Mitchell family in the future and the past, hits on key themes of power, dystopian corporate dominance, and their effects on the environment — all which will only become more urgent in the future. As each season will take viewers to different places in the past, while showing our planet’s possible future, the scale, scope, stakes, and story possibilities of PLANET RESET are virtually limitless. Season 1: New York City (2048) & New York City (1893). Centered on the Mitchell family — Audre, leader of the World Sustainability Commission and right-hand to the U.S. President; Jackson, a disillusioned ex-college football star and stay-at-home dad; and their daughter Miyah, a snarky teenager who’s close with her father, but more like her mother than she’d ever admit. With the earth on life support, and only months before human life is no longer sustainable, Planet Reset teams with the U.S. Government. Together they launch a nationwide search to find DNA matches capable of timelining. Jackson is shocked to find he’s a match — literally one in a billion. He becomes part of the “Savior Seven,” a planet-saving team tasked with traveling back to 1893. His mission: befriend celebrated inventor Nikola Tesla, prevent his bankruptcy, and stop him from negotiating a bad deal with tycoon George Westinghouse. Soon Jackson learns that a return to present day is impossible — meaning he’ll be leaving his family behind forever. And once Jackson arrives in 1893, he finds himself alone, as the other members of the Savior Seven perished in the journey. Alone and overwhelmed, Jackson discovers his mission is fraught with complication and peril. While in 2048, his wife and daughter discover Planet Reset — for all their altruistic messaging — isn’t what it seems, and that the mega-corp will stop at nothing to protect their vision of the future. THE WORLD Split between two time periods, PLANET RESET takes place in 2048 and 1893. In 1893, New York City was the center of the world in the midst of “The Gilded Age,” a colorful era defined by rich-get-richer profitability while crime and poverty battered the working class. Burgeoning financial titans like J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and George Westinghouse competed for financial supremacy while superstars of invention Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla fought for investor dollars and cultural prominence. In 2048, the entire world population is on edge, as panicked people cram into landlocked urban centers. The melted ice caps have coastal cities underwater, hazardous air quality has people locked inside their homes, and drought has caused mass food shortages, so it’s all eyes on Planet Reset, whose headquarters are set in a waterlogged New York City. Run by CEO Imani Sett, considered the brightest physicist of her time, her public mission is to extend the world’s clock, and preserve humanity. All while Uproot, a hyper- religious fringe movement, dead set on the world’s end, threatens her mission. PLANET RESET exposes the effects of greed and power across two distinct, linked generations, and the oft-ignored and overlooked forces of good that quietly sacrifice, behind the scenes, to save the world. THE CHARACTERS • JACKSON MITCHELL — 37. An ex-college football quarterback and stay-at-home dad. In a rocky marriage with Audre. He’s very close to his daughter, Miyah, and the two often align against Audre. • As one of only a handful of DNA matches for timelining, Jackson becomes one of Planet Reset’s “Savior Seven,” tasked with going back in time. When he learns he’ll never see his family again, Imani Sett strong-arms him into going. He reconciles with Audre, he’s devastated to leave his daughter behind. • Jackson is thought to be the only survivor of the Savior Seven who makes it to 1893 alive. A fish out of water, he soon discovers that gaining Tesla’s trust isn’t easy. As he learns that he and Tesla are in grave danger, and that Thomas Edison will stop at nothing to win the electricity war, Jackson is forced to outwit Edison and his band of muscle- headed henchman, to extend the planet’s future. • AUDRE MITCHELL — 36. Leader of the World Sustainability Commission and right- hand to the U.S. President. Married to Jackson; mother to Miyah. Cheated on Jackson with Planet Reset’s Director of Timelining, Arto Hämäläinen. A hero of the ecological movement in the 2030’s, Audre’s focus is on giving the planet, and her family, a future. • After Jackson is the lone survivor of the Savior Seven, Audre, in 2048, becomes the public face of the mission. She soon learns, with Arto’s help, that Sett’s goal is to seize control of the Doomsday Clocks by manipulating them, so she can hold the fate of the planet in her hands. • Realizing the President is no more than a puppet for Sett, Audre and Arto team-up to destroy Timelining to keep it out of Planet Reset’s hands. She’s shot while protecting Miyah by helping her travel back in time. The gunshot isn’t fatal, and Audre escapes with Arto. They’re forced to team up with Uproot’s leader to undermine Planet Reset, and save the world on their terms. • MIYAH MITCHELL — 15. Daughter of Jackson and Audre. Has her father’s athleticism and level-headedness, and her mother’s laser focus and concern for the environment. She feels neglected by her mother, often siding with her father. • With Jackson gone, Miyah rebels, meeting Jareth, a handsome 21-year-old, who introduces her to an underground party scene. There she’s shown reports of Planet Reset’s suspect history, and learns her father will soon die because of an implant. In grave danger, Miyah is kidnaped by a Planet Reset operative before Jareth saves her. While hiding out at Arto’s lab, Planet Reset agents infiltrate with order to kill, forcing Miyah to timeline back to 1893, but not before she sees her mother shot, and presumably killed. • In 1893, Miyah finds a weakened Jackson, keeping Audre’s fate a secret from her father. As time ticks away, the two push Tesla to invent the electric car, until Miyah gives the inventor the missing key to unlocking his wildest invention yet: a time machine that can send them years into the future. ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS • NIKOLA TESLA — 37. Legendary Serbian inventor. His Tesla coil has made him a star in America. Expected to become one of the richest men in the world. An eccentric genius who loves attention. Celebrated at parties, featured on magazine covers, he dines at all the hot spots and hangs out with celebrities like world-renowned author Mark Twain, while living at the Waldorf-Astoria. • A tireless worker with hundreds of projects on the go at once. Relies on assistant Dorothy Skerritt to keep distractions at bay. Once Jackson flatters himself into Tesla’s inner circle, Tesla listens to Jackson’s advice, but never takes it. Always at odds with his villainous rival Thomas Edison, who blows up his studio. • Miyah’s arrival changes everything for Tesla as she inspires him to turn a once-shelved theory into reality: a time machine that can launch people decades into the future. • IMANI SETT — 48. CEO of Planet Reset. The world’s top physicist, considered the smartest woman in the world. Fierce environment and sustainability advocate. The only three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. • As the leader of the world’s most powerful mega-corporation, she believes the planet’s ill health demands a paradigm shift, and she intends to save the world and shepherd it into a new era. • When Audre goes rogue, and Miyah disappears into the past, Imani’s meticulously cultivated plan is at risk, but she soon manipulates the U.S. President to give her unprecedented power. • ARTO HÄMÄLÄINEN — 35. Planet Reset’s Director of Timelining. Relativity expert, Einsteinian scholar and leading authority on DNA. A scientist to the core, he uses DNA to unlock timelining, making time travel safe for humans. • Arto learns Planet Reset is using timelining to manipulate the Doomsday Clocks, and increase mega-corp’s influence. He finds Sett’s end goal is to overtake the U.S. Government, taking advantage of the people she’s promised to protect. • In love with Audre, he works with her to destroy timelining, expose the truth about Planet Reset, send Miyah into the past with a warning that the tracking device in Jackson’s arm is poisoning him. When Audre is shot, Arto saves her and the two are forced to seek shelter in the most unlikely of places. • DOROTHY SKERRITT — 29. Secretary and lab assistant to Tesla. A brilliant young scientific mind devoted to his work, she gives Tesla around-the-clock support for his many, evolving inventions.