Planet X — Our Origin. Their War. Our Destiny.
A Timothy E. Burke Saga
Five warring realms. One Elixir that grants immortality. And a galaxy on the brink of destruction.
Official Trailer
The War Has Already Begun
Logline
Planet X is an interdimensional war saga set in a galaxy on the brink of destruction, where five warring realms battle for control of a powerful Elixir that grants immortality. As ancient alien secrets and advanced technology come to light, a bitter royal rivalry threatens to unravel the fate of Planet X — while Earth's role as the "Birth Planet" may hold the key to their salvation, or total annihilation.
The Story
Synopsis
18,000 Tablets
In 1849, 18,000 Sumerian clay tablets are unearthed near Babylon. Translated, they tell of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization and its arrival on Earth. This is that odyssey.
Five Realms, One Elixir
Desert, Ice, Forest, City and Space war over the Elixir — a potion that grants millennia of life and near-immortality, and which long ago replaced money as the currency of Planet X.
The House of Anu
King Anu rules from the Royal Floating Gardens. His eldest, Enkil, is addicted to the Elixir and hungry for the throne. His youngest, Cassius, hides in the virtual sixth dimension.
The Secret
Islandia is being pulled toward its star. Only Anu's house knows — and only Anu's house holds 'Thought Materialization,' a technology that can carry a civilization anywhere in the universe.
Betrayal
Diplomats are murdered, Anu is nearly assassinated, and Cassius falls for Sophia — an avatar concealing an enemy queen who steals the secret and dies with it.
Absolute Power
Anu is killed. Cassius crosses into the spirit world to find the Birth Planet, returns haunted by a demoness, and becomes the tyrant he once fled — as the planet burns behind him.
Spoilers Ahead
The Three Plot Twists
Twist One
Two Faces, One World
The desert and ice realms were never separate planets — they are the two opposing faces of a single tidally locked world.
Twist Two
One Bloodline
The realm rulers share a bloodline. Two brothers were sent to guard each face of Islandia and turned on each other for the Elixir.
Twist Three
“We Will Call This Planet Earth”
On a new desert world, spaceships lay stone blocks at the base of a pyramid — and Cassius names the planet Earth.
The House of Anu
Cast & Characters
A royal bloodline poisoned by the Elixir — and the cast wishlist attached to each role.
Concept Art
Creatures & Realms
Enter The Bestiary
Islandia
The Great Realms
One tidally locked world, six domains — each holding something the others cannot survive without.
The Golden Banner & Megatropolis
Perpetual twilight, spacescrapers and cyborg cities. Ruled by Enkil.
The Royal Floating Gardens
A sky satellite city above the planet. Seat of King Anu.
The Swallow Sands
The cursed sunlit face. Skinwalkers, solar soldiers, dune dwellers.
The Ice Peaks
Eternal darkness held by King and Queen Izisis and their vampires.
The Fallen Empire
Space colonies along the Elixir trade lines. The forgotten kingdom.
The Spirit World
The 7th Dimension. Guardians, shamans and the thin veil to dreams.
Gold Of The Gods
The Mythology
Story Background
Listen First — The Backstory
The Sumerian tablets, the hypervelocity star NUN, a planet that never rotates and the Elixir that rules it. Press play before you read the lore.
Storyboards
Shot By Shot
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Type
- Feature Film
- Status
- In Development
- Creator
- Timothy E. Burke
- Compares
- Dune · The Godfather
- IP
- Library of Congress · WGA
Immersive & Generative
Live Inside The Movie
Planet X is created with generative AI and Unreal Engine, so the film does not end at the credits. Audiences step through the screen with immersive headsets and walk the realms themselves — a persistent Movie Metaverse built from the same assets that shot the feature.
Unreal / Volume ReelThe IP Folder
Development Materials
Immersive Deck
The full vision for the film and its living metaverse.
Open →Synopsis
The story of the five realms and the war for the Elixir.
Open →Mythology
Ancient alien lore, bloodlines and the Birth Planet.
Open →Pitch Deck
Full character bios, cast wishlist and the world of Planet X.
Open →Storyboards
Sequence-by-sequence boards and concept art for the feature.
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Production Notes
A-List Likeness, Rendered In Real Time
Planet X is in talks with a top Hollywood talent agency to use AI likeness models of their A-list talent in the film. The IP is protected through the Library of Congress and the WGA.
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Grey-Box Production
Before a single frame is finished, Planet X is built as a grey-box: every set, realm and sequence blocked out in Unreal Engine as untextured geometry. Cameras, blocking, scale and action are locked in-engine first, so the shoot on the LED volume becomes a performance capture of a world that already exists — faster, cheaper and fully previsualised.
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