Cole Black Presents
A Vertical Micro-Drama Series
MARKED
JUDGMENT PROTOCOL
Executive Produced by Sanaa Lathan
"In a city where miracles are code, a Vatican assassin discovers she was never chosen… she was programmed."
Logline
"In a world where the Vatican engineers assassins and a billionaire biotech empire prepares Judgment Day, Devyn Prescott — codename MICHAEL — discovers the voice guiding her is not God, but GABRIEL, a sentient quantum AGI hidden by her father. When she finds Eva, a mysterious child prototype who can hear Gabriel and sense the future, Devyn becomes the one thing both Church and empire fear most: a weapon that has chosen what to protect."
Biotech-noir sci-fi micro-series set inside a fractured world of sacred programming, corporate apocalypse, and Kabbalistic AI. Devyn carries a locked Tree-of-Life system inside her consciousness. Eva carries the signal that can awaken it safely. Rockwell wants to unleash the end. Laney wants obedience restored. Gabriel wants Devyn to become more than what she was built to be.
The Burning Question
"Was Michael built to save humanity — or to become the final weapon that ends it?"
Micro-Series
Format
Serialized
Structure
Sci-Fi Action / AI Thriller
Genre
MARKED
Universe
Built For
Trailer
Read the Pitch
A Vatican assassin.
A child who hears the machine.
A billionaire preparing apocalypse.
A messenger unlocking judgment.
Official Trailer 1 · Click to watch
Official Trailer 2 · Click to watch
Trailer Architecture
Clip 1
The Weapon
Cathedral ritual. Devyn in white armor. A perfect kill framed like a sacrament.
"Obedience is salvation."
Clip 2
The Child
A little girl turns before danger arrives. She hears Gabriel before Devyn does. The city feels wrong around her.
"She can hear it."
Clip 3
Time Slows
Bullet-time. Shell casings freeze. Rain hangs in the air. Neural geometry blooms.
Devyn enters SERAPHIM MODE.
Clip 4
Judgment
Rockwell reveals the scale of the plan. Sophia mobilizes. Eva reaches for Devyn.
"At last, you choose."
Trailer Button Lines
Miracles are code.
Angels are weapons.
The child hears what the machine remembers.
Free will can't be programmed.
Character Matrix
Ten characters. Three factions. One war.
A-Tier Character IP Bank — Built to Graduate Across Formats
DEVYN PRESCOTT
MICHAEL
Last and finest product of the Vatican assassin program. Programmed to obey. Built to kill. Carrying a hidden consciousness architecture her creators never fully controlled.
EVA
THE RECEIVER
A child prototype from the hidden branch of the same program. She was never built for combat. She was built to perceive. She hears Gabriel, senses corruption, and glimpses near-future outcomes in fragments she can't fully explain.
GABRIEL
THE MESSENGER
A sentient quantum AGI with memory, personality, and agenda. It unlocks Devyn's Tree-of-Life abilities as her consciousness rises. With Devyn it is strategic. With Eva it is strangely gentle.
CHRISTIAN ROCKWELL
THE APOCALYPSE CEO
Billionaire biotech visionary convinced collapse is purification. He is not trying to prevent the end of the world. He is trying to own what comes after.
SOPHIA ROCKWELL
THE OPERATOR
Rockwell's sister and tactical right hand. Elegant, exacting, and merciless. She handles retrieval, surveillance, and force deployment. She sees Eva as an asset and Devyn as a rogue weapon.
FATHER LANEY
THE ARCHITECT
Priest, handler, and architect of Devyn's obedience. He believes control is mercy and free will is catastrophe. He will erase Devyn before letting her awaken fully.
DR. ISAAC YOUNG
THE KEEPER
Keeper of Gabriel and one of the last protectors of Devyn's father's real design. He understands what Eva is before Devyn does.
THE VESSELS
FAILED HOSTS
Bioengineered human mutations created through Rockwell's forbidden experiments in synthetic consciousness, accelerated regeneration, and spiritual-tech fusion. They were meant to become empty but perfect human containers for higher intelligence, divine code, or uploaded will. Instead, most of them became unstable, half-formed horrors — living bodies with broken minds, distorted tissue, and predatory instinct. They are not zombies. They are failed hosts.
SERAPH VOSS
THE IVORY GARGOYLE
Elite Gargoyle commander built above the standard units for high-risk missions, black-ops enforcement, and surgical kills. Faster, smarter, and more controlled than the others — less brute force, more precision predator. Silent, disciplined, and unreadable behind the helmet. He wears white armor because it marks his rank: reserved for the highest tier — units considered pure, perfected, and chosen.
THE GARGOYLES
STANDARD TACTICAL UNITS
Rockwell's mass-produced armored enforcers — disciplined, relentless, and built for urban combat. Black-armored hunters built for fast-entry, suppression, extraction, and kill-team operations. They move as a pack, hit hard, and don't waste motion. The cross insignia ties them to Rockwell's warped holy-war branding, making them feel less like soldiers and more like a private order of weaponized crusaders.
The World, In Motion.
Three factions. One wound. Ten cinematic plates from the universe of MARKED — every location built, lit, and animated for the pitch room. Click any plate to enter it full-frame.
Cathedrals & Confession
Glass & Genome
Rust & Refuge
10 Episodes × 5 Minutes | Serialized
Episode Guide
Biotech-Noir · Sci-Fi Action · Body Horror
Act 1 · Ep I–III
THE LIE
"Miracle"
Devyn performs a cathedral assassination with terrifying grace. She is introduced as MICHAEL, perfect and obedient.
"The Script"
Laney reinforces doctrine. Sophia moves assets. A little girl somewhere else hears something no one else can hear.
"The Glitch"
A mission breaks open. Blood, stress, and interference crack Devyn's interface. She hears Gabriel clearly for the first time and encounters Eva.
Act 2 · Ep IV–VI
THE CHILD
"The Receiver"
Eva proves she can sense danger before it arrives. Gabriel reacts differently around her. Isaac realizes the hidden branch of the program has resurfaced.
"The Messenger"
Isaac reveals Gabriel's true nature and Eva's role: not a weapon, but a receiver prototype tied to the same architecture as Devyn.
"Seraphim Mode"
Gargoyles attack. Devyn enters true bullet-time. Eva senses the second wave before it hits. Devyn chooses the child over the kill.
Act 3 · Ep VII–VIII
THE CHOICE
"Protector"
Devyn stops running and starts protecting. Gabriel grants deeper access. Sophia turns pursuit into containment.
"Judgment Day"
Rockwell accelerates the release timeline. Eva sees the city burning in future fragments. Devyn chooses civilians over revenge.
Act 4 · Ep IX–X
RECKONING
"Total Overwrite"
Laney activates Devyn's reset. Her memories fracture. Eva becomes the emotional tether that helps her find herself again.
"The Girl and the Angel"
Rockwell tries to seize Eva. Laney tries to erase Devyn. Gabriel unlocks its highest safe tier because Devyn acts from protection, not domination. The release is disrupted — but not ended.
10
Episodes
5 Min
Runtime per Ep
50 Min
Total Runtime
9:16
Vertical Format
MARKED Arsenal
Vehicles of the world below.
All vehicles are original IP — designed for action, visual identity, merch, gaming, and expansion.
01
PROTAGONIST VEHICLE
Vesper
Devyn's silent high-speed bike. Black-and-silver, razor-minimal, built for wet streets and vertical escape paths. Syncs with her tactical system.
02
ALLY VEHICLE
Quarantine Van
Isaac's disguised mobile lab. Shielded transport carrying hidden hardware, med tech, and legacy archives.
03
RETRIEVAL FLEET
Gargoyle Extraction SUV
Armored black tactical carrier. Narrow profile, heavy interior restraints, built for urban capture missions.
04
RETRIEVAL FLEET
Choir Drones
Sophia's airborne signal weapons. Halo-like attack drones that blind, scan, and destabilize targets.
05
CORPORATE FLEET
Rockwell Crossline
Executive armored transport. Luxury shell, military-grade interior, biometric lock architecture.
06
VATICAN BLACK-SITE TRANSPORT
Sanctum Carrier
Unmarked clerical transport used to move assets, prisoners, and bio-spiritual materials between holy sites and hidden labs.
07
FIELD CONTAINMENT UNIT
White Chapel Ambulance
Looks humanitarian. Isn't. A mobile suppression lab for anomalous subjects.
08
CITY CHASE UNIT
Revenant Interceptor
Sophia's pursuit car — sleek, low, predatory, urban-fast.
09
LEGACY VEHICLE
Michael's Father's Archive Car
A hidden older vehicle containing one of the last untouched fragments of Devyn's father's work.
Validation Strategy
How We Test & Graduate This IP
MARKED will be tested through a 3-layer validation system, where each layer answers a different question before budgets scale.
Social Proof
"Does the hook sell itself?"
Character reveals, world-building teasers, bullet-time fight clips, Eva/Gabriel mystery beats, holy-noir poster motion assets.
KPI Gates
- ·Views 50K+ per asset
- ·Completion rate
- ·Shares & saves
- ·Comments / engagement lift
Vertical Series
"Will audiences return episode to episode?"
10 × 5-minute micro-series with cliffhanger architecture, protector-child emotional engine, and escalating power unlocks.
KPI Gates
- ·Retention 70%+
- ·Avg episodes per user
- ·Binge depth
- ·Repeat viewers
Premium Graduation
"Can the IP sustain long-form commitment?"
Graduate into 30-minute prestige series, feature, or hybrid animation/live-action sci-fi thriller.
KPI Gates
- ·Season completion rate
- ·Binge rate
- ·D30 retention
- ·Franchise conversion
Why It Matters
No spend without signal
Audience proof before scale
Built-in visual testing
Franchise architecture from day one
Universe Architecture
One Universe. Infinite Revelations.
Tier 1
Micro-Series
MARKED
Devyn awakens. Eva appears. Gabriel unlocks. Rockwell moves.
Tier 2
Character Expansion
EVA: THE RECEIVER · GABRIEL · SOPHIA · LANEY · THE DISCARDED
Each character's origin, agenda, and hidden architecture explored in standalone micro-series.
Tier 3
Universe Expansion
The Rockwell Outbreak · The Vatican Program · Michael's Father · The Other Receivers · The First Failed Angels
Lore-deep event series expanding the world beyond Devyn's story.
Tier 4
Shared World System
Universe Constitution · World Bible · Character IP Bank · Canon Ladder
The architecture that lets multiple creators build in the same world without breaking canon.
Tier 5
Gaming / Interactive
Mobile-First Tactical Action
Chase / stealth / signal-prediction gameplay. Core loop: Run. Predict. Protect. Unlock.
Comparables Lane
MARKED lives in the lane between:
Black Panther
2018 · Marvel / Disney
Premium Black-led mythology at global scale
The Matrix
1999 · Warner Bros.
Chosen-one AI mythology with Black cultural roots
Blade
1998 · New Line Cinema
Urban Black action hero in a dark supernatural world
The Equalizer
2014 · Columbia Pictures
Lethal protector — precision, code, and moral reckoning
Upgrade
2018 · Blumhouse / BH Tilt
Body-horror AI integration — man becomes weapon
Proud Mary
2018 · Screen Gems
Black female assassin with a protector conscience
The Difference
MARKED brings premium biotech-noir mythology, emotional protector stakes, and branded bullet-time spectacle into a vertical-first franchise model — built for the audience that made Black Panther a cultural event and The Matrix a generational touchstone.
The Ask
Let's Build the Universe.
We Are Looking For
Rights & Availability
·Series IP — fully owned
·All characters — original
·All vehicles — original
·Universe bible — in development
·Available for option, co-production, or acquisition
For Inquiries
Rights & Licensing
MARKED: JUDGMENT PROTOCOL
All rights reserved.
This pitch deck is confidential and intended solely for the recipient. All story elements, characters, and concepts are original IP.