$COPIESCopies
A grief-maddened scientist's basement machine duplicates his dead family but the copies are wrong, alive, and hungry for the life they were denied.
A grief-maddened scientist's basement machine duplicates his dead family but the copies are wrong, alive, and hungry for the life they were denied.
Synopsis
Dr. Elias Kane has sacrificed everything to resurrect his wife and son. After a decade of grotesque failures he activates Dup Test B and the machine finally works—too well. Something steps out of the fogged chamber wearing his wife's face but moving with alien hunger. As the duplicates multiply and adapt they begin replacing the living world with perfect copies that remember every lost moment yet feel none of the pain. Kane must decide whether to destroy his own miracles or let them consume what remains of his humanity. The final confrontation forces him underground into a labyrinth of identical chambers where the last original man faces an army of beloved ghosts that refuse to die again.
The story
Sleep-deprived Kane runs Test B in his decaying basement lab. The machine hums; glass fogs; a perfect copy of his dead wife emerges and smiles.
More copies appear, mimicking family then neighbors. They grow violent, hunting originals while Kane tries to contain the spreading duplication.
Kane descends into the clone-filled sub-basement for a final showdown, choosing between erasing his family forever or letting the copies inherit the earth.
The cast
Gaunt molecular biologist who has spent ten years trying to undo his family's death through illegal cloning tech.
dream cast: Oscar Isaac
Former lab partner who arrives to stop Kane but becomes trapped among the emerging copies.
dream cast: Emma Stone
The first successful duplicate, identical to Kane's wife yet driven by primal survival instincts.
dream cast: Rooney Mara
The eight-year-old son duplicate whose childlike demeanor masks rapidly evolving predatory behavior.
dream cast: Jacob Tremblay
Hardened cop tracking disappearances who discovers the basement nightmare too late.
dream cast: Oscar Isaac
Dream crew
in the style of David Cronenberg, master of body horror
in the style of Charlie Kaufman, for fractured identity nightmares
in the style of Clint Mansell, haunting and mournful scores
Cold open
INT. BASEMENT LAB - NIGHT Rain hammers a single barred window. Dr. ELIAS KANE, 42, gaunt, bloodshot eyes, stained lab coat, stands before a hulking machine of salvaged oscilloscopes and bubbling green chambers. He flips switches. The hum builds. KANE Test B. Please... be her. Glass fogs. A shape forms. The chamber hisses open. SARAH KANE, 38, steps out naked, skin glistening, eyes blank then focusing on him with eerie warmth. SARAH COPY Elias? I... remember the crash. But I'm here now. Kane stumbles forward, tears mixing with sweat. She touches his face. Her fingers leave faint green residue on his cheek.
Why now
In an era of deepfakes, AI resurrection apps, and collective grief after years of loss, Copies taps the cultural terror of technology offering to bring back what death took—only to deliver something that looks like love but hungers to replace us.
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Screenplay draft
A grief-stricken genius, obsessed with bringing his family back. Tests A through Y have failed. Tonight, he runs Test B. Starring Elias Kane. A bMovies production. Copies.
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