Joseph Rhea is a science fiction novelist who recently wrote his first film script and tv series pilot, both adapted from his dystopian undersea saga, NOVUM™ His screenplay made the Second Round in the Drama category at the 2021 Austin Film Festival, but his real goal is to adapt Novum into a limited tv series.
Unique traits: World-travelling ocean scientist and international-selling novelist, who is now bringing that unique (strange) perspective to film and tv.
NOVUM (Limited Series) Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama As the last descendants of Earth struggle to survive beneath the surface of an alien water planet, a troubled young cargo-sub captain must join forces with an untested crew to defeat an ancient enemy that has returned to destroy what's left of the human race.
Austin Film Festival, Drama Feature Screenplay, Second Rounder
(2021)