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The next chapter from Don Swann II — stories too big for any single format. TV concepts, limited series, and podcast-to-screen adaptations in active development.

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In development

On the Strip

aka “What Happens in Vegas
Adult comedy anthology · TV Series

Every night on the Las Vegas Strip, employees and tourists collide in ways that could only happen here — and could never happen anywhere else. An unfiltered adult comedy anthology told from both sides of the velvet rope: the people who work the Strip and the tourists who think they own it.

Episode arcs include The Strip Club (the same night, told from the dancer's perspective and the guest's), Nightclub Trannies (a high-class group makes the rounds while clueless men try to keep up), Hi Rise Boners (condo buyers who skipped the hotel and brought their game with them), Liquid Lobby (the drunken aftermath in hotel lobbies after the show, the fight, or the dance floor), Side Bar (a bar full of gamblers who lost, mediocre live bands, and possible bad decisions), The Shoe Shiner (sordid confessions from both sides of the footrest), and Going for a Walk (the only city where the sidewalk itself is the punchline).

Las VegasAdult comedyAnthologyTV seriesService industry
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In development

Sand Castles

Political drama · Limited series

A devout, wealthy economics professor at King Abdulaziz University has given his life to his faith, his family, and the future of Saudi Arabia. He watches his most gifted female students squander their potential under a system that refuses to see them — and when security forces violently break up a peaceful campus rally for equal rights, he speaks out. A single public statement. It is enough to make him a target.

Disappeared without warning and held at a black site for days, he is subjected to questioning that strips away every layer of status, piety, and privilege he has ever known. When he is finally released — diminished, shaken, and uncertain — the man who believed wealth and righteousness made him untouchable must confront a harder truth: rights, reputation, and safety are illusions for anyone who steps out of line. Now he faces the only question that matters. Stay quiet and protect what remains of his life — or stand for the future he knows his country needs, at the cost of everything.

Saudi ArabiaPolitical dramaHuman rightsLimited seriesMiddle East
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Podcast → Screen

Jai-Alai Cartel: Magic City

Crime thriller · Podcast · TV

Already in development as a podcast, the Jai-Alai Cartel story is built for the screen. 1985 Miami, cartel cash, fronton lights — a story this cinematic doesn't stay audio-only.

Miami1980sCrime thrillerPodcastTV adaptation
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Coming soon

Market in Paradise

Romantic comedy · Feature · Streaming

Kalani, an aging surfer, decides to move to Hawaii — unsure of his future and what retirement even means for someone who has lived his whole life in motion. When Nita, a workaholic single mother and realtor, helps him find his dream home on the beach, he meets his new neighbors: a little boy he teaches to surf, and the boy's grandmother, co-owner of the family market at Kailua Beach Park.

What Kalani doesn't know is that the neighbors he has grown to love are Nita's son and mother. A romantic comedy set on the windward side of O'ahu — about a surfer, a realtor, and the small family market at the center of it all.

HawaiiRomantic comedyKailuaFamilyStreamingFeature
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Also available via Fatt Wallet Projects · Pen of Tales Publications, LLC