THE DROP
A CYBERPUNK KIDNAPPING - 27 MILES UP
AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY
ADAM THOMAS LUMB
The system knows. The guards don’t care.
High concept never got higher
When ransomware leaves the AI wife of a spaceport director catatonic, he must deliver the ransom drop to a stranded space elevator, 27 miles above the earth, or the kidnappers will trap his wife’s mind forever in the dark web.
“Wildly original”
Black List Reviews
Comparables include; Skyscraper, Fall, Gravity,Cliffhanger, Ransom, Taken, Bladerunner, Bladerunner 2049, Her and The Matrix.
Image by Adam Lumb based on work by Bruno van der Kraan and NASA
75 page feature screenplay
Disaster / Cyberpunk
Near-future tech-noir rescue thriller
Suspenseful, Thought-provoking, Emotionally charged, Unsettling, Futuristic
THE DROP
SCREENPLAY BY ADAM THOMAS LUMB
UNPRODUCED
adamthomaslumb@gmail.com
Photograph ActionVance
Adam Thomas Lumb
Screenwriter
Adam Thomas Lumb is a screenwriter from Sheffield, U.K. He’s written and illustrated for comics and worked in arts management for theatre, museums and the BBC. He holds a degree in film history from Sheffield Hallam University.
