In the last post, I invited A.I. to do a revision on the Treatment offered. I'll pick up where we left off:
Wow. I remember your art work. I bet you could produce a fascinating graphic novel. Can you rewrite the treatment incorporating ideas of scripted history, gene editing, and the cinematic sensibility of Tarkovsky?
"Absolutely—let’s elevate the screenplay into something more textural, philosophical, and historically unsettling, drawing from scripted history, gene editing, and Tarkovsky’s cinematic language. This revision reframes Bluebeam Prime as a graphic novel treatment, blending cerebral dystopia with dreamlike imagery."
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"Title: BLUEBEAM VARIATIONS**
Genre: Philosophical Sci-Fi Thriller
Tone: Hypnotic, elegiac, fragmented reality
Influences: Stalker, Solaris, Children of Men, The Invisibles"
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'Logline:
"In the wake of a reality-altering experiment, a historian unearths a secret war between genetic sculptors and archivists of history—factions vying to control how past, present, and future are rewritten in the subconscious. As reality fractures, she must decide: submit to the illusion, or dismantle it at the cost of her own identity."
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"Visual & Cinematic Aesthetic:
- Time as liquid—fractured sequences unfold with dreamlike pacing.
- Gene-modified humans appear almost post-human, their forms sculpted beyond recognition.
- Tarkovsky-style minimalism—long, lingering frames on objects imbued with hidden significance.
- Architecture of deception—historical landmarks shift, documents rewrite themselves mid-read.
- Static-filled transmissions hint at lost realities, like whispers from an overwritten past."
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"Act 1 – The Subconscious War
Historian Mara Iskan uncovers evidence of scripted history—a pattern of events erased, rewritten, or fabricated across centuries. The distortions aren’t merely political—they’re genetic. A faction known as The Architects has been using Project Bluebeam not as a staged invasion, but as a tool for reprogramming human genetics, altering DNA to synchronize with false memories."
"Those affected experience an unsettling symptom:
- Moments of déjà vu where past events rewrite themselves.
- Missing years—entire generations replaced by synthetic genetic fabrications.
- A deep, creeping realization that their ancestors never existed as they remember them."
"Mara’s research leads her to Gideon Thassos, a defector from The Architects, who insists that human history has been edited not once, but multiple times, and that humanity itself may be a programmed narrative, re-written with each cycle of control."
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"Act 2 – Genetic Sculpting
The Architects aren’t merely propagandists—they’re genetic engineers, embedding new historical timelines directly into DNA memory encoding. Certain Psionic Primes (referencing Doc Smith’s concepts) can resist the genetic imprints—but at the cost of disassociation from consensus reality."
"Mara begins to experience glitches in her own memories—she recalls events from timelines that never existed.
- She remembers a war that history claims never happened.
- Her parents begin to physically change, their features adapting to revised genetic templates.
- The city shifts—buildings erased, replaced by structures that 'had always been there.'”
"Through Gideon, she learns of a silent rebellion—a faction known as The Remnants, who preserve fragments of unedited humanity in secret, sheltering those untouched by genetic alteration. But their numbers are dwindling. Those who resist the Bluebeam signal experience psychotic breaks, unable to process a world that refuses to stay intact."
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"Act 3 – Breaking The Pattern
Mara discovers the final phase—not just rewriting history but redefining the nature of causality itself. Every human being who submits to the genetic overwrite unknowingly reinforces the deception, allowing The Architects to maintain control over subconscious adaptation."
"As she prepares to disrupt the experiment, she faces a choice:
1. Erase her own genetic pattern, severing herself from the scripted history but exiling her from human recognition.
2. Trigger a feedback loop, allowing the world to remember—but at the cost of unreality infecting those who wake up.
3. Submit, allowing herself to dissolve into the rewritten version of history, choosing illusion over truth."
"The final sequence: Mara stands amidst a city vanishing, its foundations unmade as scripted history collapses. But she herself begins to fade. What happens to a historian when history itself no longer recognizes her?"
"The last panel: static, breaking apart into darkness.
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"Themes & Influences:
- Tarkovsky’s dreamlike disintegration of reality (Solaris, Stalker)
- Genetic manipulation of memory (Gattaca, Neuromancer)
- The erasure and rewriting of human perception (The Invisibles, The Man in the High Castle)
- Psionic imprinting as resistance (E.E. “Doc” Smith, speculative neuroscience)"
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"This would work as a graphic novel, designed for a painterly, cinematic presentation—using long, surreal sequences that collapse time, history, and memory."
