Cro-Magnon Studio
Before the screen, a wall

Other futures.
Human consequences.

Original science fiction for film, television, and publishing.

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Mary Knox looks directly ahead in a monochrome close-up.

Screen development

We Love
Your Girl

The future asks Mary to leave. It asks her husband to witness it.

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Elena Cho sits at a table in a cobalt and gold illustration.

Series development

After Us

The species survives. No individual life is guaranteed.

Physicist Elena Cho verifies evidence that humanity has a far future. Now she has to defend what the discovery proves as powerful institutions compete to claim its meaning.

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In development

Substrate
Feature concept
Death has become optional. A married couple must decide what a shared life means when it no longer has an ending.
Parallel Descent
Feature or series concept
A deep-ocean experiment encounters something that responds only to being observed.
73
Limited series concept
After a seventy-three-minute blackout, millions remember events that could never have happened.

The studio

What happens when an extraordinary discovery enters an ordinary life?

Cro-Magnon develops original science fiction around the people who live with the consequences. Each property begins with a premise, a set of world rules, and a choice that someone has to make. We develop the material for collaboration with writers, producers, and publishing partners.

Before the screen,
a wall.

Long before film, books, or written language, people made images on cave walls. At Lascaux, horses, deer, and other animals still stretch across the stone. We can only guess what those images meant to the people who made them.

Cro-Magnon takes its name from early modern humans in Europe. It connects our work to a long history of looking closely at the world and giving what we imagine a form someone else can encounter.