Marco Bonafede Black War proiect ver. 1.02 ideaBOOK Summary Ideabook Fiction Fiction The world of Black War Historical characters Black War part one Black War part two - The island of the dead The conspirators Hollywood and the Nazis Game Black Air War Flight simulators The comic Fantasy The Red Baron and Francesco Baracca Captain Nakamura Partisans The red centaurs The deserter Hans The witches of the East The Battle of England Crowley in Egypt Colonel Popof The Troll Uku Frau Hildegard The Führer's balloon Dinosaurs from Antarctica Area 51 Red Tails zombies Anja toothless Media The hidden protagonist Lucas, Eisenstein, and the comics Star Wars and World War II WW2: adventure, fantasy and horror Hitlerson Copyright Marco Bonafede 2019 On the cover: The Island of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin ideabook This book is intended for publishers of novels and comics, television and film productions, writers, designers, directors, animators, video game developers, musicians, modellers. The Balck War project is at the same time a subject for a film, for a TV series, for a comic book series, for novels, for a video game, for action figures. No type of realization excludes the other. Black War is a set of stories set in the Second World War that can be grouped into two categories: The first, historical adventurous, is a subject for novels or for a TV series that includes several references to Hollywood cinema during the Second World War. The second is more markedly fantasy and is still fragmentary and composed of some independent minor stories. it is more suited to the development of comics, video games and children's novels. In this latest version there are werewolves, vampires and aliens. Already seen? Of course, but you can look at old characters from a different point of view and invent some characters with new aspects. What matters is the whole, creating a fantastic universe that has its own coherence, that is recognizable and original. Various stories and characters can be integrated into a single narrative: the operation I propose resembles that of Once Upon a Time, the TV series that used fairy-tale characters. The adventurous and the fantasy category can be separated or integrated, you will see. This is just version 1.02 of the project. The basic idea of Black War is to build a saga on the Second World War. By now almost all those who have lived through that conflict, which ended 74 years ago, are gone and the Second World War can become a legend. Perhaps it is the best way not to lose its historical memory. At the end of the book there are chapters on the relationship between the Second World War and the fantastic in literature, comics and cinema; the Star Wars saga is treated with particular attention because it represents a creative model capable of absorbing and reworking stories and images, an omnivorous narrative sponge. Some of the chapters of the book are present in my blog: http://marcobonafede.blogspot.com/ The text is identical but there are more illustrations and there will be further updates. Images for which I do not own the copyright are used for explanatory purposes only. Today a work of imagination goes beyond the individual author. This is due to various factors: - The public prefers countless episodes of a single story with the same characters. The comic book series and the television series satisfy this need for stability, but except in very rare cases (Harry Potter by Rowling, The Throne of Swords by George RR Martin) a work can no longer derive from the mind of a single author. - Television has adopted the typical production pattern of comics, in which the creator of a series coordinates the action of many screenwriters and designers. - The TV series are based on the work of various screenwriters coordinated by a showrunner, the project manager. This allows you to take advantage of the capabilities of many screenwriters. Generally someone is good at writing dialogues, another at devising action scenes, others developing characters: mixing the various creatives is the job of the showrunner. The world of Black War Black War originates from other things I wrote: - The comic strip The revolt of Kronstdat (1979) on an anti-Bolshevist anarchist revolt in 1922. One of the leaders of the revolt was the sailor Stepan Maksimovič Petricenko: In Black War his nephew Vania (fictional), amateur magician, is one of the two protagonists of the novel. - The novel Crowley's Last Night (1993) on the expulsion of Crowley from Cefalù from Cefalù in 1923 by the fascists. Crowley is developed as a comic and dramatic character. - The first chapters of Black War (2001) published in 2013. The two protagonists of the saga are Vania Petricenko and Aleister Crowley. In Black War Crowley is the head of an allied magical organization that fights Nazism. When my daughter was a little girl, she wanted me to tell her stories. Having exhausted the fairy tales, I started telling her about a children's version of Black War with funny characters, dinosaurs, monsters and planes. https://www.amazon.it/Lultima-notte-Crowley-Pisolo-Books-ebook/dp/B00A9GOJ02 https://www.amazon.it/rivolta-Kronstadt-Pisolo-Books-ebook/dp/B00CTJIGII https://www.amazon.it/Black-War-prima-parte-Pisolo-ebook/dp/B00CQ0XE3M Historical characters Of all the characters I mention, you find extensive documentation on the internet on Wikipedia. I will limit myself to a few notes on the reasons why they should be used. - Aleister Crowley is a scandalous poet and esotericist, expert in sexual magic, well known in the Anglo-Saxon world. An. He is a complex character, entangled in spy plots and with comic aspects. It is said that the character of Uncle Fester of the Addams family is inspired by him. His face is on the cover of a Beatles record and the demon of the television series Good Omens (Amazon Prime 2019) is called Crowley. In Black War (as in Good Omens) Crowley's role is that of the good devil, embarrassing but likeable, a sort of Long John Silver. The Crowley of Black War is, in appearance, a sixty-year-old in good health, while the real Crowley in 1944 was 69 years old and was in bad shape. Crowley, Hitler and esotericism Good Omens - Crowley Aleister Crowley – Uncle Fester - Marlene Dietrich German anti-Nazi actress, brilliant woman: "If God exists he is crazy". Dietrich in the Second World War: http://lastgoddess.blogspot.com/search/label/World%20War%20II - Leni Riefenstahl (antagonist of Dietrich) director, great friend of Hitler. She is a decisive character where talent, cynicism and hypocrisy coexist. There is a picture that captures her as she witnesses the shooting of some civilians. Her face is upset but this did not diminish her support for Nazism. The character allows us to develop the theme of "willing executioners", the mass consensus and the participation by millions of ordinary people in the crimes of Nazism, Fascism and Japanese nationalism. - Ernest Hemigway writer, journalist, adventurer. - Winston Churchill great statesman, witty, funny. - Harold Adrian Russell Philby Russian spy. - Hedy Lamarr Austrian, Jewish, anti-Nazi actress. - Orson Welles anti-Nazi actor and director. - Fritz Mandl husband of Hedy Lamarr, arms dealer. - Margherita Sarfatti writer, former lover of Benito Mussolini. - Geobbles Nazi minister of propaganda, "goat foot ". - Goering "The Führer's balloon". - Walther Wüst director of Ahnenerbe. - Himmler Reichsführer SS. - Anna Mae Wong American actress of Chinese origin, she was very active in raising funds to help China against the Japanese. - Charlie Chaplin – He was not Jewish, but he did not deny the Nazis who called him a Jew. - Donald Richardsson OSS agent. Marlene Dietrich - Anna Mae Wong - Leni Riefenstahl Leni Riefenstahl Leni Riefenstahl witnesses the shooting of civilians Ribbentrop – Wüst – Goebbles Ernest Hemingway –Marlene Dietrich Hedy Lamarr - Eye of Horus Churchill – Wally Simpson – Edward VIII Chaplin in 1940 Black War part one In December 1943 the Russian fighter pilot Vania Petricenko shoots down his first Nazi plane. Upon landing it is taken by some men of the NKDV, the Soviet military secret service, who take it to Moscow where it is expected at the Lubianka. Petricenko is informed that he will be sent to England to be integrated into a secret magic group charged with fighting the Nazis. The Soviets do not believe in magic but decide to send Petricenko, who is an amateur magician, to meet the demands of the allies. Petricenko receives a summary training from the NKDV and is received by Stalin himself. In early 1944 Petricenko left for England. In London Winston Churchill discusses with Maxwell Knight, chief of the British counter-espionage, of the magical war against the Nazis. Churchill is skeptical but supports the plan. In England Petricenko is taken into custody by Jan Fleming who accompanies him to a villa in the English countryside where the magic group directed by Aleister Crowley is based. Meanwhile in the Bahamas a Nazi submarine lands an agent in charge of contacting Wallis Simpson and her husband Edward the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) who had abdicated the throne to marry her. The Nazi would like to convince Edward to reach Germany and become the pontiff of a new Arian religion, but Wallis Simpson and her husband prefer to report him to the British authorities. https://www.amazon.it/Black-War-prima-parte-Pisolo-ebook/dp/B00CQ0XE3M Stalin - Stepan Maksimovič Petricenko Black War part two - The island of the dead Vania Petricenko integrates into the group and participates in some rites. He also becomes a friend of a group of American pilots who fly the B17s at a nearby air base.