MANHATTAN HEAT is a police procedural/supernatural thriller that is best described as The French Connection meets Resident Evil.
SYNOPSIS.
Lt. Frank Caldwell is a hard-boiled NYPD homicide detective who is suffering a crisis of faith. He is a recovering alcoholic and recent divorcee' who is trying to be a good father when he gets a very unusual call: a body has been found outside the 86th street tunnel – a body that has been dead for ten years. Witnesses saw him attack a man minutes before he collapsed.
Lt. Caldwell’s investigation will lead him to all of the dark corners of Manhattan – kicking in doors in the drug-riddled Amsterdam Avenue district, to warehouses frequented by Santeria cult ceremonies, to the underground subway tunnels that hold the secrets of an ancient curse that is about to be unleashed on the city. With the help of parapsychologist Kate Reeling and her father, Lt. Caldwell must overcome his personal demons in order to stop evil from taking over Manhattan.
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Screenplay by Daniel Corey, adapted from the novel by Ken Eulo. MANHATTAN HEAT is a product of DangerKatt Creative Studio.
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TRAILER CREDITS.
WRITTEN, DIRECTED, ANIMATED, and EDITED by DANIEL COREY
ARTWORK by ANTHONY DIECIDUE
From the SCREENPLAY by DANIEL COREY, based on the NOVEL by KEN EULO
MUSIC WRITTEN and PERFORMED by DANIEL COREY
VOICES:
BRENDA COREY: Dr. Kate Reeling, ADA Knoll
CASSIE BOYD: Ms. Gomez, ME Ellison, The Lady in White
DANIEL LOWMAN: Detective Peters
MATT REIS: Deputy Mayor Spaulding
DANIEL COREY: Lt. Caldwell, Dr. Reeling, Michael Thompson
ABOUT DANIEL COREY.
(Writer/Director)
Daniel Corey is a director, screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He has authored five screenplays, two teleplays, numerous stage plays, a novel, and has several comic projects in the works.
Dan spent four years as writer in residence with the New York Acting Ensemble, where he had ten plays produced. Titles included Joggers, Psyche in a Box, Star of India, Worthy of Albee, and The White Room. He has written for the animated series Angel Wars: Guardian Force, and is currently collaborating with artist Anthony Diecidue on a graphic novel titled Prophet.
Recently, Dan has ranked in several distinguished competitions. His King of the Hill spec script, titled The Yiddish Connection, recently made the top 10 finals of Creative Screenwriting’s AAA Teleplay Competition. MANHATTAN HEAT made the top 15% list out of 1,400 entries in AAA’s Screenplay Competition. The Yiddish Connection was also a Second Rounder at the 2006 Austin Film Festival Teleplay Competition. In addition, Dan adapted his own novel, Elizabeth Kilbride, into a screenplay that was a quarterfinalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition.
Presently, Dan holds the rights to two novels by New York Times bestselling author Ken Eulo, MANHATTAN HEAT and THE BROWNSTONE, for which he has completed scripts.
Ken Eulo has a varied resume. He is a New York Times best selling author - his novels include MANHATTAN HEAT, THE BROWNSTONE, THE BLOODSTONE, THE DEATHSTONE, CLAW, HOUSE OF CAINE, NOCTURNAL, THE GHOST OF VERONICA GRAY, and many others.
As a playwright, Ken has written 27 plays that have seen production throughout the country, including SRO, which received the Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Award.
As a director, Ken has worked on and off Broadway with writers ranging from Edward Albee to Leonard Melfi, and actors such as Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, and Jon Voight.
Ken's television credits include writing and directing for many shows, including Benson, Golden Girls, and Marblehead Manor. Currenly, he is putting the finishing touches on his latest novel, A WITCH'S TALE. To see more on Ken's work, go to http:// www.brownstoneaps.com.
ABOUT ANTHONY DIECIDUE.
(Artist)
Anthony Diecidue (dee-ETCH-eh-DOO-eh) was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and is an alum of the prestigious Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art.
Once Anthony moved to the West Coast, he worked for seven years as a caricature artist for the Lee Harvin Company at Universal Studios. In addition, he also worked as a freelance illustrator. He now fully concentrates on storyboards, concept design, and illustration.
His digital technique has a traditional flare inspired by everything from modern comicbooks, animation and concept art to Norman Rockwell, Klimpt and Frazetta.
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