Projects
Motor is a creative content engine that focuses on developing intellectual property for film, television, new media, and print. Here is a selection of our projects currently in release, development and production.
KnightfalL
An epic drama series about the downfall of the Knights Templar. Premiered December 6th, 2017 on the History Channel. Premiered in the Top 5 Cable Shows of 2017. Season 2 premiering 2019 with Mark Hammill (Star Wars).
THE HOUSEMAID
A remake of the #1 grossing horror film in Vietnamese history. Academy Award winning writer Geoffrey Fletcher set to adapt the Derek Nguyen screenplay. Motor producing with Happy Canvas and CJ Entertainment.
THE FOUNDER
Critically acclaimed film starring Michael Keaton, about the true story of the origin of McDonald's.
KRONOS
Five strangers awaken with no memory on a large space station orbiting Earth. As they explore the massive facility in search of their identities, they discover that the station can throw them into increasingly dangerous situations involving the present, the past and the future.
THE MALL
Fall 1983. Three seemingly unrelated teenagers find out they are the illegitimate children of a recently deceased Florida mob boss when they each inherit a store in the local mall. The catch is, each store is a front for the mafia and they must survive high school while navigating being a part of their new 'family'.
Free Comic Book Day selection for May 2018. Optioned by Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Pictures for development as a TV series.
THE RIFT
A single mother and her son rescue a WWII fighter pilot when his fighter plane crashes in present day Ohio.
SWITCHED ON
An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye. Emma Frost (WHITE QUEEN) adapting, FOCUS FEATURES financing and distributing. Motor producing with MARC PLATT (LA LA LAND).
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
THE SOURCE
Jon Flood, a lonely high school teacher from East St. Louis, finds out that magic is real and he’s the one prophesied to return it to humanity. The only problem… it's been outlawed for thousands of years by a powerful sect who hoard it… and will stop at nothing to keep it.
Publishing September 2018 from Scout Comics.