NORTH VEGAS
THE STORY

Control the story.
Control the ending.

Tommy needs a comeback. Jessie starts recording.

A man and a woman sit opposite each other at a restaurant table.
THE PREMISE

He tells it.
She makes it.

Tommy O’Quinn has lost his fortune, his family, and his place in Las Vegas. He brings filmmaker Jessie Waller the one thing he can still sell: his account of what happened.

Six months earlier, Lonnie Sendamos fled with $5 million in payoff money. The cash and the violence landed on Jessie’s set.

In the aftermath, they turn the bloodshed into a pitch for a major studio film—each trying to outplay the other and cash in.

The characters.

A woman’s silhouette is framed by red curtains and a glowing pink light.
THE DIRECTOR

Jessie Waller

She listens, records, manipulates, and writes for leverage.

A man’s profile is silhouetted against green light and a distant red signal.
THE NARRATOR

Tommy O’Quinn

A fallen kingpin sells his confession, hoping a film will restore his fortune.

An extreme close-up of a man’s face in shadow, edged with cool light.
THE GOVERNOR

Governor Nevin Panoessa

A corrupt governor turns his longtime partner into a pawn.

An actor stands onstage with a gun against his head.
THE STAR

Bernie Brady

A desperate actor turns real bloodshed into his next performance.

A bearded man looks upward in deep blue light.
THE SOLDIER

Maddox Gilrein

Tommy’s head of security hunts the stolen money, haunted by violence.

THE RECKONER

Billie O’Quinn

Tommy’s wife and a former prosecutor must decide how to protect their daughter.

A woman reclines in warm yellow light, her face partly in shadow.
THE FBI

Quincy Richardson

An FBI investigator follows the money and learns to trust her judgment.

A man walks through a rain-darkened street beneath green city lights.
THE PRODUCER

BG

Jessie’s producer keeps the film moving until stolen money tests his loyalty.

A blurred figure overlooks city lights through a window at dusk.
THE ACTRESS

Greer Belkin

A fading star fights for a future opposite her ex-husband.

A woman’s face is caught in green light with magenta reflections.
THE SEC

David Miles

An SEC accountant follows the money trail and gives Quincy the confidence to act.

A bearded man sits in a crowded restaurant beneath warm lights.
THE CRIPPLE

Lonnie Sendamos

A gifted gambler flees with stolen money, bringing the violence to Jessie’s set.

A man’s profile catches a narrow edge of warm orange light.

How the story feels.

Jessie’s control, Tommy’s account, and intrusive memories each reshape the frame.

A solitary figure sits within the precise geometry of a blue-lit room.
01 / THE AUTHORED FRAME

Control looks calm.

Held compositions and clean geometry give Jessie control of the frame.

Color & light.

Film references for light, color, and composition.

exposed ambition.

Exposed ambition

Pale gold promises escape; the face stays withheld.

indifferent city.

Indifferent city

Cool distance dwarfs the people inside the story.

order becomes spectacle.

Order becomes spectacle

Emergency colors turn authority into spectacle.

ordinary surfaces.

Ordinary surfaces

Muted earth tones let danger inhabit ordinary life.

distant promise.

Distant promise

City lights promise escape; her eyes stay fixed ahead.

Objects carry the past.

A slumped figure in a hospital corridor is silhouetted against low sunlight.

Into the light.

Low sunlight breaks through a hospital corridor, leaving the figure in silhouette.

A dark hillside house projects over a distant city lit beneath a blue night sky.

Above the city.

A house hangs above the city lights, isolated in the dark.

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Traffic moves along a broad road beneath a fading evening sky.

The second look
changes the first.

The overture, movements, reprise, and coda revisit events from competing perspectives.

Every story thinks it needs an accomplice.

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