Clearly looking to tap into some promising new talent, Warner Bros. has handed the keys for conspiracy thriller The Karma Coalition to shorts/commercials director Trevor Cawood.
The plot will find a professor discovering that the wife he thought was dead for five years might actually be alive. Her death was faked by a mysterious organisation (we’re going to guess the titular coalition) for unknown reasons, and the new information puts the academic in some serious danger, not least from a crooked detective who starts a twisted game of cat and mouse with our hero.
Warners nabbed the spec script for a solid fee from Shawn Christensen, whose day job is as lead singer and guitar player for New York-based indie band stellarstarr* (that asterisk is part of their name, not a link to a forgotten footnote).
Cawood, meanwhile, has been grabbing attention after making respected ads for the likes of Citroen and** Star Wars** 'toon Clone Wars and especially his short film Terminus, which was praised for its odd style. You can take a look at that one here. Oh, and he also co-owns a visual effects house, overseeing work on the likes of District 9 and Cowboys and Aliens. So if Karma Coalition needs any effects work done, he can probably get a deal…