PROJECT DARK

By Sam LENNOX

HAWTHORN PRODUCTIONS LTD - as PROD

Black comedy - Completed 2007


    • Year of production
    • 2007
    • Genres
    • Black comedy
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 9 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sam LENNOX
    • Writer(s)
    • Sam LENNOX
    • Producer(s)
    • David WIGGLEY (Hawthorn Productions), Dominic BURNS (Hawthorn Productions)
    • Synopsis
    • 1817:
      Construction Workers of the St. Petersburg-Moscow Chausses hard- surface road uncover an unmarked chest 3 meters below ground level. All workers were reassigned to destinations unknown and the area was quarantined for 16 weeks. Project Dark is born.
      1922:
      At 1400 hours, miners of the Argonaut gold mine expose a strange crate in shaft 4B and production is halted. At 1500 hours, a fire spreads through the main shaft and into the subsidiary tunnels. All 47 workers are killed.
      1940:
      The German Luftwaffe fleets attack RAF airfields and radar stations. A stray bomb hits Farmland on the outskirts of London and exposes a network of catacombs. Local witnesses see hooded figures fleeing into the nearby woodland. No official statement was released.
      1997:
      The KGB does not declassify Project Dark in their first yearly review. The threat level is deemed to high.
      2001:
      Congo Rebels find a body at the bottom of an abandoned well, their description translates to: Earth Demon. Despite pleas from the diplomatic community the body was never made available for public scrutiny.
      2007:
      Project Dark is explained.
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Jun 01, 2007