Character Profiles - By all contributors

One of the key things that people find memorable about movies aside from the plot, settings and special effects are the characters. A badly written or badly acted character can ruin a blockbuster movie and ruin a perfectly good plot.
Here I am going to post a little background story for each of the characters within this scene to help you feel closer to the events that happen to each character in our two minute production and leave you wanting to watch the rest of this film.


1. Hayden Astley.

Hayden is a retired member of the SAS, leaving after a botched mission in which he left a member of his emotionally tied squadron for dead. Now working as a less than honorable and far from exciting job as a pizza delivery boy, he is set up by none other than his old SAS surviving squad mates, out to get revenge for their fallen comrade; the killer being Gianni Aquazi, his former best friend and famed for his mental instability which makes him a super weapon of violence He is mercilessly with a sword by Gianni and shortly dies afterwards.



However, this is not the end for Astley. He rises not long after Gianni leaves,transformed into something beyond death: the Ankou; a being of mythology that is said to be the servant of Death itself. He however keeps his human body to avoid drawing the interest of the living. He is given the task by a voice in his head to 'deal with the ones who killed him'. If he does deal with them, he will be reborn but if he fails, he will serve the voice for all eternity as the Ankou. Armed with the blood-stained sword that killed him, Hayden sets out to accomplish his task. The only doubt in his mind is if the voice in his head is one he can trust...

2. Gianni Aquazi

Gianni was a member of Hayden's squad for several years and over many missions together, they became good friends and comrades. However, when one of his friend is killed, the whole squadron See's this as Haydens fault. After that mission Hayden 'retires', and the squadron disbands, and all keep contact with each other apart from they're disgraced leader. Gianni and the squadron bears an unshakable grudge against his commanding officer. After being voted to do so by his other comrades, Gianni sets up and murders his friend.



However, he finds after his deed that Hayden is not dead. Gianni finds he is up against something entirely new, something beyond the livings knowledge. As Hayden continues to chase him and the others across the country in search of freedom and revenge, the grip on his sanity begins to slip ever further and upon realizing Gianni is something beyond living, he seeks salvage and help from beyond sanity's barriers...