June, 2008
Blue Genes Development Fund, LLC. a Delaware Limited Liability Company has entered into a Loan Out Producer And Development Agreement with producer Mark Harris and his Mambo, Inc. production company ("Harris Producer Agreement").
Mr. Harris and his Harris Company won the Academy Award as producer for the movie "Crash" and the Independent Spirit Award as producer for the movie "God's and Monsters". Mr. Harris was also nominated as Producer of the Year by the Producers Guild of America for "God's and Monsters".
The screen play "BLUE GENES", after its anticipated re-write to be overseen by Mark Harris under the "Harris Production Agreement", is anticipated to be a suspense thriller in the vein of "Michael Clayton" and "The Insider".
Inspired by a true story, “Blue Genes” chronicles the journey of Luke Goldwyn, a struggling entrepreneur, a father and a family man. After the collapse of the former Soviet Union Luke teams up with Sergei Pavelosky, a renowned scientist at Moscow State University to develop a manufacturing process by engineering a rare Russian fungus, for the production of Cellulosic Ethanol (non food Ethanol derived from the byproducts of crops such as corn stover, wheat straw and bagasse.)
What began as a quest to make better stonewashed blue jeans could become a mission to change the world, providing cheap, clean and efficient biofuel using an organism’s natural metabolic processes. Although their research has been promising, they faced many obstacles, from insufficient government funding to opposition by Russia’s oligarchic oil monopoly, Minosk.
Luke decides to hire Sergei on the spot, and bring him, and his fungus, back to the United States. But it’s easier said than done. Moscow won’t provide Sergei with an exit visa. Frantic phone calls to his Congressman lead Luke to more dead ends. After thoroughly exhausting diplomatic channels, Luke decides that the only way to get Sergei out of the country is to smuggle him over the Caucus Mountains, into neighboring Georgia. Their overland escape is a grueling adventure.
Back in the United States, Luke and Sergei’s business is soon booming. Years pass. Investments flow into the young company. Luke becomes a minor celebrity, appearing on 60 Minutes to tout the benefits of the developing biofuel industry. He seems to have everything. But one thing is missing – his father’s approval. No matter what he does, it seems his father will never see him as anything but a disappointment. To avoid dwelling on this, Luke focuses on his work. He finds more investors, expands his business, and pushes to make his company the market leader.
But there are powerful forces of opposition at work to prevent this fledgling biofuel company from succeeding. Sergei’s green card application has been rejected, and when Luke visits Congressman Ferguson to discuss the problem, he finds an oil-stained politician dangerously opposed to the exploration of alternative energy sources. If he wants to keep his head of research, Luke is in for the fight of his company’s life.
Against the advice of his family and friends, Luke devotes his efforts to defeating Congressman Ferguson’s re-election campaign. He pours support into the campaign of Ferguson’s little-known rival, an African-American Democrat named Natalie Carter who has little more than a scattering of local support. With Luke’s help, she transforms herself into a Green candidate, turning the election into a local referendum on environmental policy.
In retaliation for Luke’s support of his rival, Ferguson sends Immigration agents to Luke’s laboratory, where they drag Sergei from work in the midst of a carefully orchestrated media circus, designed to discredit Luke and his political allies before the public.
But while Luke makes great headway with his business, his personal life is falling apart. Accusing him of being an absentee husband, Luke’s wife Alison leaves him. He comes to her on his hands and knees, begging her to take him back. He promises he’ll change. He’s taking the company public – it won’t be his sole responsibility anymore – he’ll have a board of directors, and responsibility will be divided. Alison accepts the compromise. Together, the family travels to New York, where Luke’s daughter Lacey, an aspiring entrepreneur herself, rings the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange.
Finally, it seems that Luke’s work life and his family life are reaching an accord. But an unexpected blow unsettles both. Sergei has a heart attack on the floor of his Russian factory, and his death reveals a number of improprieties related to the Russian division of the company. Seeking to gain control, Luke’s lawyer and his Chief Financial Officer seek to tie Luke himself to these improprieties. They force him to step down as CEO of his own company, while, without his expertise, they begin to run it into the ground. Luke is powerless – because of byzantine SEC regulations, he can only stand by and watch while his former employees tear apart the company he spent a lifetime building.
Luke knows there’s only one way he’ll get the company back. He has to buy up the outstanding stock shares. Swallowing his pride, he comes to his father, and asks for his help. Abe is moved by Luke’s anguish, and together, the father and son buy back enough of the company’s stock to regain control.
In the last scene, Luke and Alison take a much-needed vacation together, sailing around the Florida Keys, as indictments are handed down to the corrupt lawyer and CFO.
Away from work, and away from his worries, Luke has finally learned to enjoy simple pleasures of life.
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