We Love
Your Girl
Feature Film / Limited Series
Logline in revision — synopsis pending final alignment across development materials.
Flagship property — details to followA Development Studio — Los Angeles
Speculative IP
for serious
development.
Cro-Magnon develops original science fiction intellectual property for film, television, and publishing — pitch-ready assets built to provoke, endure, and invite development at every scale.
The Studio
IP development as a foundational act.
5Worlds in development
1Feature ready to option
PrestigeOver spectacle
0Franchise entries produced
J. Speakman
Founder — Cro-MagnonJ. Speakman comes to Cro-Magnon from a background in UX design, AI systems, speculative writing, and app development — not from inside the film industry. That outside vantage is also the origin of the studio's method: treating a concept as a system to be designed and stress-tested before it's ever pitched.
He founded Future Human Hypothesis, an independent research studio and publication examining the long-term trajectory of intelligence — human, artificial, and whatever emerges between them. It exists to ask the structural questions most commentary skips in favor of the immediate. Cro-Magnon is that inquiry given narrative form.
A solo studio by design. Lean, focused, and built around a single conviction: that the most valuable thing in any development conversation is a concept that is already done.
Every project arrives complete — treatment, world bible, character studies, dossiers. No discovery process. No development overhead. A producer or showrunner who options a Cro-Magnon project receives a full creative foundation ready to move.
The studio develops original speculative fiction for film, television, and limited series. Five worlds are currently in development. The format serves the story — not the other way around.
We are not building backdrops. We are building systems.
Current Slate
Five worlds. One voice.
We Love
Feature Film / Limited SeriesSubstrate
Feature FilmIn a near future where death is no longer inevitable, a couple must decide whether love is something to preserve forever — or something that only matters because it ends.
Active world in developmentAfter Us
Feature / SeriesHumanity's far-future descendants already exist — not hypothetical, not speculative, observable. They do not intervene. They watch. The future is real, and it is watching.
World dossier completeParallel
Descent
Feature / Series
A deep-ocean experiment reveals structures that respond not to physical stimuli, but to human interpretation — implying a parallel evolutionary pathway shaped by compression rather than expansion.
World dossier complete73
Limited Series — 8 EpisodesA major city loses power for exactly seventy-three minutes. No storm. No attack. No explanation. When the lights return, millions of people remember events that cannot be verified — and every account is internally consistent, emotionally true, and physically impossible.
Full series architecture complete — writer-ready packageIn Development
Future WorldThe next concept is already in motion. Full details on request.
Early-stagePhilosophy
What we refuse.
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No spectacle over psychology. The catastrophe lives in the character. The tension is internal. Destruction is the least interesting thing that can happen.
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No franchise logic. Every world is built to end. Deliberate terminality is not a limitation — it is the source of meaning. These stories resolve. They do not expand.
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No alien invasion tropes. The most unsettling contact is patient, non-coercive, and entirely human. If it invades, it is already less interesting than it could be.
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No perfection paralysis. Development moves. Assets are produced. The world bible exists before the treatment, the treatment before the script.
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No explanatory crutches. The audience is capable. If the concept requires a monologue to be understood, the concept is underdeveloped. Restraint is intelligence.
"The most valuable thing in any development conversation is a concept that is already done."
Get in Touch
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Submit a brief description of your project or inquiry. We'll evaluate it through the Cro-Magnon lens — identifying thematic alignment, developmental potential, and next steps.
Enquiries & Rights
jay@cromagnon.studio