HOW IT ALL BEGAN

The first outlines for SPHINX were written in fall of 2003. Different in itself, the first drafts of the script dealt with the chase after religious items and their supernatural protection from ghosts of other worlds.

It was then, in June 2004, when I traveled through Europe and put a different, unique concept together. The key elements of this new direction for SPHINX were to create a story about mankind, our existence, past and future. A story about human fears, about faith and life in itself. It should ask what we believe in, what we fear and praise, but not question. A story that every single person in this world can identify himself/herself with.

Even though the story lays grounded in the mysterious thriller/drama/adventure genre, it carries a huge mythological and historical background. This required me to travel to Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece in late summer of 2004. The goal was to research the subject with several representatives of the Church around Southern Austria, Northern Italy and the Vatican in Rome, Italy and also let the greek mythiology influence its
direction.

Once I returned to Los Angeles, I changed the storyline completely. The story was set to create a riddle about our lives and beliefs, yet it was key to not discuss, agree or disagree with any religions, myths or the history itself. In fact, this film deals primarily with a higher might, gods, which is the key element in any of world's religions.

After the first drafts were written and brought into its current version, I organized a reading with several industry professionals to see how big the interest for this certain subject/genre is and generate opinions about the story and its telling. Trained actors played the script and the interest was enormous.
After the screenplay SPHINX was written for the american market it was optioned by a film production company in Hollywood which in the end was unable to execute funding.

After regaining all the rights to the story in winter 2005/2006, I reworked the story completely and brought it in an advanced stage written for a location where it belongs, the historical Europe.

With locations set in the United Kingdom, France and Spain, this film has a stronger mythological influence and still incorporates religious backgrounds, human fears and added science and the unknown world after death.

The project is a film, where history, science and myth are packed in a quizzing adventure set on historical, beautiful land and city sides of Europe.