Olga Von Weerg · 16
Much like Stranger Things or Harry Potter, Olga’s role is set to be a discovery talent. Comp: Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) – Leave No Trace (2018).
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The series · in development
What if Neil Gaiman wrote Pan's Labyrinth, and David Fincher directed it?
- Format
- 8 episodes
- Genre
- Neo-gothic drama
- Audience
- PRESTIGE, TEEN
- Proof of concept
- Olga ↗
The show
A cinematic exploration of bipolarity, woven into a layered mythology and centred on a teenage dark hero.
A mythological Euphoria, minus the mocking, plus the hero's catharsis, with the more-human-than-human existentialism of Blade Runner. Through the eyes of the construct, we are set free to deconstruct ourselves.
Why now
A fresh, un-Marvel-like, haunted teenage-girl hero.
4 of 5
Of Gen Z's top shows are dark adolescence: Euphoria, Stranger Things, Wednesday and The Last of Us. Female leads dominate.
TV-MA
Is where prestige TV left teenagers. G i B is built for adults while keeping the door open to the generation it's about.
’90s
Grunge, sadcore and distortion guitar are back with Gen Z, driven heavily by teen girls. These are not Stranger Things girls. They are G i B girls.
’80s → ’90s
Stranger Things was an homage to the eighties. G i B is an homage to the alternative nineties, painted in dripping black nail polish.
Season one
A film-like story, with a beginning, a middle and an end.
Character-driven and complete in one season, with room to expand into a plot-driven saga and the horrors of the Dollhouse.
- Act I · Episodes 1–3 The girl under the barn A farm with too much money and failing crops. A secret beneath the barn. Two killers knock on the wrong door, and set her free.
- Act II · Episodes 4–6 The father who can't die A soldier whose body won't let him go. A boy who almost let go himself. And a girl who, for the first time, chooses violence on her own.
- Act III · Episodes 7–8 The Church meets For the first time in decades, the Church of the Broken Child gathers in public. There is a new Awaken, and he needs to be handled.
Characters
Emotionally haunted people, revealed by one girl.
Mint Trey · 13
Mint is also an opportunity for a discovery; the reference/comp is Sunny Suljic in Mid90s.
Lenny Hayes · 36
Inspired by Idris Elba and played brilliantly by Olivier Huband in the proof-of-concept short film Olga.
Story engines: blocked becoming · survivor father · arrested development · the monster within · found family
Style, pace, mood
Fincher, not Cronenberg.
A melancholic fantasy of becoming, where past choices drag like luggage and growth leaves permanent scars. Literally. Palettes are bleached, like in the TV show Dark. The camera movements are few and subtle, calculated and cold, just like Olga in the Skinheim. Some episodes run fast; some hold sparse beats while the stakes stay high. There are no low-stakes episodes.
Franchise potential
G i B can be B i G.
A world built to be collected. It all started with a toymaker, its deepest secret is a vault of a thousand soul-infused dolls, and its hero stitches her own creatures. Fans don't just watch this world; they can hold it.
- GamesAtmospheric horror in the vein of Little Nightmares.
- Collectibles + toysA toy line written into the canon itself.
- Fashion + music’90s grunge and sadcore, already back with Gen Z.
- Fan loreA glossary, realms and factions deep enough to grow a wiki.
For producers, studios and representation
Request the pilot script and the world bible.
The full bible covers the mythology, the season-one arc, the endings, characters and talent references.
Created and written by Z Tennyson. About the creator.