Genre
Tactical Action / Tech Thriller
NCCA Development File // Feature
LION CITY
Framed by the architect of Singapore’s all-seeing grid, a traumatized American agent and a disgraced inspector must disappear into the city’s analog blind spots to stop a stolen quantum key from erasing identity and finance across ASEAN.
Format
Feature
Setting
Singapore, present day
Development Lens
International co-production
The story engine
The smartest city becomes the perfect trap.
LION CITY is an original NCCA feature in development. Every camera hunts them and every connected system can turn hostile, so their escape route is human: paper maps, mechanical watches, radio networks, and forgotten tunnels beneath Singapore. High-octane and emotionally grounded, in the tradition of Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, The Bourne Ultimatum, Enemy of the State, and Sicario.
“You can’t debug the human soul.”
Passport structure
The elements that hold the title together.
01 / Lead
Jack Vance
40s, an American DSS agent framed while protecting a U.S. Senator. Kyiv taught him the cost of trusting an algorithm. His way back is learning to trust people.
02 / Lead
Sophii Weiming
30s, a Singaporean inspector discredited for exposing system anomalies. Her father defended the grid. She has to question it, and choose the city over vengeance.
03 / Pressure
Julian Vane and the Reset
The erased architect of the grid steals the Sovereign Drive to collapse financial, identity, and surveillance records across ASEAN. He calls mass erasure salvation.
04 / Engine
The Gray Cell
A tunnel-wise veteran, a jammer builder, and a rogue taxi radio net. Landmark action grows from the city itself, and the Gray Cell supports further stories.
Controlled access
Confidential development materials.
The material package is presented project-by-project for approved development conversations. Files are not publicly distributed from this page.
Studio One-Pager
Logline, story, players, and tonal comparables on a single page.
Confidential
by request
Pitch Deck
Twelve slides: hook, characters, story, visual style, and next steps.
Confidential
by request
