Episodic
Quartet of Death will establish the Louis Masterson cinematic universe in the marketplace, introducing four colourful characters in stand-alone episodes, ideal for the streaming marketplace since each episode offers a complete story experience. At the same time, the episodes are part of a larger universe, designed to be expanded with multiple seasons and feature films in parallel.
This project is currently casting. To submit talent, follow breakdowns available at Backstage:
Status: in Prep
River Princess
Trouble follows card-player and womanizer Clay Allison when he comes up against a cabal of merciless card sharps working the Mississippi steam-boat the River Princess. He finds an ally in an upstanding married woman, Mrs Lillian Harrison – but can she be trusted? After the carnage onboard he is put ashore to face an angry mob eager for justice to be served.
Est. Runtime: 40 min
Black Sombrero
Ex-Pinkerton agent Jesse Rawlins has found peace and quiet in the little Mexican village of Lucero. It is pure nirvana. That is, until some bad hombres ride into the naïve village and hold it hostage, forcing Jesse to once again take up the fight for justice, and be the man he was destined to be.
Est. Runtime: 35 min
No Escape
Lillian Harrison is back as a rich Texan lady and she hires Milo Quesada, known only as “El Sordo”, the deaf one, to “recover” her husband, who seems to have been abducted with a large sum of money. Lillian insists on going with him, searching deep into Mexico. El Sordo begins to wonder what the true nature of the mission is once the lady tries to seduce him. When they finally locate the missing husband, a surprise lies in wait – for the lady and for El Sordo.
Est. Runtime: 35 min
Revenge
A beautiful young woman, wasting away in El Paso Penitentiary, makes a daring escape across the Rio Grande along with an unlikely partner in crime, Johnny Vulture. Both with old scores to settle, they become wary partners, united to bring down a common enemy.
Est. Runtime: 45 min
Theatrical
Feature Film
TOMB OF GOLD
Mystery shrouds notorious card player and rake, Clay Allison — a condemned man, granted a 30-day stay on his execution, for as long as he accepts near suicidal missions as an agent of the Express Company.
Three armed convoys carrying over $500,000 in gold have vanished in the scorching sand dunes of the Mojave Desert in California. Without as much as a trace of the wagons, dozens of mules and 24 men gone missing – Clay begins the search for a Tomb of Gold.
Status: in Prep
CASTING CALLS & AUDITIONS
See casting breakdown at Backstage for upcoming auditions.
FILMING LOCATIONS
Kamara is producing the Tomb of Gold in Murica / Almeria, Spain and with certain locations in the U.S.
BASED ON VALUABLE IP
Clay Allison is an obvious franchise character, based on source material spanning 14 book titles by international best-selling author Louis Masterson (aka Kjell Hallbing). These books introduced the title character which was carried forward for decades by numerous authors writing and publishing 278 Clay Allison books in total!
Books Green-lit for Production
NFT Motion
Kamara presents exclusive NFT collectors the experience of extraordinary artistry and production quality in limited supply editions of NFT Motion. A cinematic experience to rival long form cinema, and its viewing are the most exclusive screenings in the history of motion picture.
Kamara intends to produce one (1) NFT Motion per book / short story title it licenses for adaption.
Edition size and market price will be based on its cost and scale of production. Budgets range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands in production cost.
Upcoming NFT productions will be shot on varying levels of scale, in the following categories; 16mm collection, 35mm collection and 70mm collection
UPCOMING DROPS
Edition size: 40
NFT Motion # 001 – Cimarrón – 16mmc
Based on: Masterson, L (1973), Cimarrón (no. 24), Kjell Hallbing Forlag
Est. Runtime: 15 min
— the first NFT Motion and part of the 16mm collection.
Werewolf
NFT Motion # 002 – Werewolf – 16mmc
Books Green-lit for Production
Upcoming
— material from the Masterson IP literary. Kamara is working to bring the entire universe to life on screen and in EL PASO Metaworld.
Your vote can influence which books and short stories are advanced to the front of the production line.
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The Masterson cinematic universe will be true to the books. Our screen adaptions closely follow the stories written by author Louis Masterson, and our job is bring as many pages alive as we can. We welcome fans to highlight and contribute which stories get adapted for movie theatres, episodic series and NFT motion. Vote and promote here the books you want to see first —
