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N-W-G (NEW WORLD GANGSTERS)
By John Snell

GENRE: Action, Crime
LOGLINE:

After witnessing his parents’ murder as a kid, Oakland hustler J.T. Trigger grows into a street

tactician leading a tight crew. When a hard-nosed judge flips them into a covert city-backed
“New World Gangsters” unit, J.T. targets crack kingpin Short Mitch while rival shot-caller Bo
strikes back by slaughtering J.T.’s uncle and kidnapping his pregnant girlfriend. Caught between
vengeance and a mandate to bring targets in alive, J.T. orchestrates raids on Mitch’s VIP crack
club and mansion, forcing a reckoning that could either save his community or burn it down.

SYNOPSIS:

The judge has a vision to stem the tide of what he sees as the systemic injustice represented by the school to prison pipeline of primarily young brown faces flooding his courtroom on a daily basis to be prosecuted. To that end he creates the N-W-G Learning Academy. Teaching young people who haven’t become too entrenched in gang life yet, technical skills and creative arts training to help them become productive citizens on the one hand, and to conceal using the street savvy fighting skills of hardcore gangsters to secretly fight crime on the covert side of the house.

The recruits work their way up the ladder to finally land on the elite sanctions list, (targeting ever bigger and badder criminals of all ilk, and/or social status), selected for sanction by the judge and his field proxy. But, when corrupt adversaries begin to feel the heat generated by the program’s success and seek to sabotage it, the judge must fight to maintain and justify it’s existence under the watchful eye of superior observers.

Having inherited his father’s reputation as a respected marijuana dealer, when J.T. and his crew catch the judge’s eye, who suspects they’re responsible for a warehouse full of corpses after a botched drug deal, he recruits them as covert N-W-G crime fighters in lieu of a possible prison sentence. Once J.T. comes to terms with the idea he decides to use their new resources to seek out his parents’, (who were murdered when he was a preteen), killer. Short Mitch, the city’s crack drug kingpin decides once again to assert his take over of J.T.’s fathers’ territory with the help of his main distributor Bo, and sets up the double cross responsible for the botched drug deal between J.T. and a Colombian gang leader. Inevitably, the deadly tit for tat cuts deeply into both their crews and lives, and finds J.T.’s up and coming Hip Hop artist girlfriend Cathy, who’s pregnant with his child, caught in the middle and he must fight to insure the survival of his future legacy.

In between it all he keeps his crew on track cruising the streets in their black classic muscle cars racking up successful street crime interventions satisfying their program objectives, and moving them closer to their possible release from the program one day. Their progress lands them on the elite sanctions list and their first sanction. To eradicate the city’s crack epidemic starting with Short Mitch and his crack empire.

In the end, having found it was Short Mitch who killed his parents, J.T. has to struggle with getting revenge, or follow orders and bring him in so they can follow the money to the top of the cocaine pipeline overseas. Displaying growth and constraint, (and a growing new respect in seeing the good their efforts have made in helping to clean up their community), J.T. chooses to follow the money and their next chapter sees J.T. and his crew embark on their first international mission to capture or eliminate the Colombian cartel drug lord at his jungle compound. Feared by many and loved by many more, the new mask clad N-W-G mystery saviors of their community are born. Predators find no sanctuary as they partner with their international New World Gangster counterparts in countries around the world, searching out criminals from the bottom to the top bringing them to justice wherever in the world the trail may lead. Whoever, wherever, whatever it doesn’t matter, it’s on!

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John Snell

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Kevin Hager

This could be a good movie.

John Snell

Thanks Kevin, hopefully one day it will. I also think Black/White Man would make an interestingly good movie.

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