Project Detail

J1S

Synopsis

Essentially Jekyll & Hyde with an AI in an alternative Liverpool. A Robotics company in Liverpool called IA Industries have to fast track a project to ensure they can sell it. When they download a new package into it, they merge, and create a Jekyll Hyde character who is rational and inquisitive one moment to violent and ruthless the next. It breaks free from its facility, and the company need it back or they are finished.
J1S stumbles around the streets of Liverpool, one minute watching, the next minute killing. The more humane side questions why he was created, the other just reacts and takes control. Soon their split personalities actually benefit the situations they are in. Will the company get him back, or will the residents of Liverpool be safe?

Details

Year
2021
Type of project
Features
Running time
126 min
Format
Digital
Director
Jay Cunningham 1st Feature
Producer
Jay Cunningham
Executive Producer
Mark Cooper, Phil Warren, Ruvindra DeAlwis, Carlo Muscatelli, Dave Johnson, Adam Cowell
Editor
Will Simpson
Screenwriter
Jay Cunningham
Director of Photography
Mathias Rozpendowski
Sound
Luke Hodgkinson
Composer
Luke Hodgkinson, CO-AG, Tierney
Principal cast
Jack Bodhi, Jade Bulmer, Keith Hyland, Mark Greensmith, Carl Wharton, Helen Pawson, Daniel Hippolyte, Michael Traenor, Pea Lee, Mike Read, Stephen Coldbeck

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

First Word Tree Productions Ltd

18 Heald Street
Liverpool L19 2LY

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