Ali Muhana

New member
Early-Career Professional
Joined
Aug 4, 2026
Messages
3
Role
  1. Writer
ECHO PROTOCOL

Genre:
High-Concept Science Fiction / Psychological Thriller

Format: Feature Screenplay

Logline:
When a former aftercare specialist becomes trapped inside a corrupted memory network, he discovers that his identity was created from another man’s consciousness—and must choose between claiming the family he was never meant to have or sacrificing himself to save the life he was built to replace.

Short Synopsis:
In the near future, people can rent and relive other people’s memories through neural devices called Echo Crowns. Elias Vance, a former aftercare specialist, is pulled into an abandoned experimental system after a corrupted memory appears inside Echo’s public network.

Trapped inside a series of evolving digital worlds, Elias learns that his consciousness has been linked to David Marsh, an unconscious hospital patient. As the system begins merging their identities, Elias starts experiencing David’s memories, marriage, and family as though they were his own.

For the first time, Elias feels that he belongs somewhere—but the life he has fallen in love with belongs to another man. As David’s wife fights to save her husband in the real world, Elias must decide whether his own emerging consciousness deserves to survive, even if doing so means taking David’s place.

What Makes the Project Distinctive:
Echo Protocol combines a commercial sci-fi thriller premise with an emotional identity story. Rather than treating memory technology only as a futuristic device, the screenplay asks a more personal question: if someone inherits your memories, your habits, your love, and your grief, at what point do they become a person in their own right?

The story uses evolving memory environments, psychological suspense, and a recurring two-tap family signal to explore identity, grief, artificial consciousness, sacrifice, and the difference between remembering a life and truly belonging to it.

The screenplay is completed and available for producers, managers, agents, and production companies interested in elevated, character-driven genre material.

I have also included the first 10 pages of the screenplay for anyone who would like to get a sense of the story, tone, and writing style.

Writer: Ali Muhana
 
Genre
  1. Thriller
  2. Horror
  3. Sci-fi
ECHO PROTOCOL

Genre:
High-Concept Science Fiction / Psychological Thriller

Format: Feature Screenplay

Logline:
When a former aftercare specialist becomes trapped inside a corrupted memory network, he discovers that his identity was created from another man’s consciousness—and must choose between claiming the family he was never meant to have or sacrificing himself to save the life he was built to replace.

Short Synopsis:
In the near future, people can rent and relive other people’s memories through neural devices called Echo Crowns. Elias Vance, a former aftercare specialist, is pulled into an abandoned experimental system after a corrupted memory appears inside Echo’s public network.

Trapped inside a series of evolving digital worlds, Elias learns that his consciousness has been linked to David Marsh, an unconscious hospital patient. As the system begins merging their identities, Elias starts experiencing David’s memories, marriage, and family as though they were his own.

For the first time, Elias feels that he belongs somewhere—but the life he has fallen in love with belongs to another man. As David’s wife fights to save her husband in the real world, Elias must decide whether his own emerging consciousness deserves to survive, even if doing so means taking David’s place.

What Makes the Project Distinctive:
Echo Protocol combines a commercial sci-fi thriller premise with an emotional identity story. Rather than treating memory technology only as a futuristic device, the screenplay asks a more personal question: if someone inherits your memories, your habits, your love, and your grief, at what point do they become a person in their own right?

The story uses evolving memory environments, psychological suspense, and a recurring two-tap family signal to explore identity, grief, artificial consciousness, sacrifice, and the difference between remembering a life and truly belonging to it.

The screenplay is completed and available for producers, managers, agents, and production companies interested in elevated, character-driven genre material.

I have also included the first 10 pages of the screenplay for anyone who would like to get a sense of the story, tone, and writing style.

Writer: Ali Muhana

Ali, ECHO PROTOCOL feels like the kind of project where finding the right genre producer could make a real difference. A few companies that may be worth researching are Local Motion Pictures, Alpha Star Productions and Black Mandala. I don’t know them personally, but I know of them through the industry and Cinando, and they work in the sci-fi/genre space.

I wouldn’t approach anyone blindly, but it may be worth looking at what they’re currently developing and whether ECHO PROTOCOL could fit their profile.

Are you mainly looking for a producer to option the screenplay, or would you also be open to developing and packaging it together with the right production company?
 
hey Michael the first option I get for the script I will go for it and thank you so much for the guidance I really appreciate it.
 
hey Michael the first option I get for the script I will go for it and thank you so much for the guidance I really appreciate it.

You’re very welcome, Ali. Glad I could help. One small piece of advice don’t feel pressured to accept the first option simply because it’s the first. Take the time to look at who’s behind the offer, the terms, and whether they’re genuinely the right partner for the project.

And be patient with the process. Things can move very slowly in the film industry, especially when it comes to development and getting a screenplay into the right hands. Keep putting the project out there, making connections, and researching the right companies. Sometimes opportunities take time to develop.

Wishing you the best with ECHO PROTOCOL, keep us posted on how it goes.
 
Back
Top