An Independent Development Studio

Other futures.
Human consequences.

Cro-Magnon develops original science fiction for film and television. Stories about love, loss, identity, and the choices that become possible when the world changes beyond recognition.

An extraordinary premise is only the beginning.

5Original properties
2Formats in active development
1Feature ready to option, screen rights available
0Franchise entries produced
Who We Work With

We welcome conversations with producers, filmmakers, showrunners, and creative partners interested in original science fiction. That includes teams exploring AI-assisted production and interactive storytelling. Our development approach establishes consistent world rules, character motivations, and narrative consequences that collaborators can carry into their chosen medium.

What matters is who has to live with it. What they want. What they stand to lose. And what they choose when there is no painless way forward.

Cro-Magnon develops speculative stories from that point outward, building the characters, conflicts, and rules that allow an ambitious idea to sustain a film or series.

Each project has a defined development stage and a clear inventory of completed materials — ranging from world dossiers and treatments to full series architecture — giving collaborators a substantial foundation to assess and develop.

We are not building backdrops. We are building systems.

Five worlds. Something human at stake.

001

We Love
Your Girl

Feature / Series — Screen Rights Available

A grieving evolutionary biologist is contacted by humanity's far-future descendants. Their survival depends on her leaving her timeline — and the husband she is already losing. As contact deepens, she begins to want the departure she fears.

Literary SF
Complete treatment & world bible

The catastrophe isn't contact. It's that she starts to want to go.

002

Substrate

Feature Film

Death has become optional. A married couple must decide whether to preserve their life together indefinitely — and what their commitment means when it no longer has an ending.

Adult SF
Active world in development

There's no version of this ending that doesn't cost someone everything.

003

After Us

Feature / Series

Humanity discovers that its far-future descendants already exist and are watching us. They offer no guidance, make no demands, and refuse to intervene. We must live with the knowledge that our future is present — and silent.

Idea-driven Contained
World dossier complete

The evidence has been there the whole time. No one was looking up.

004

Parallel
Descent

Feature / Series

A deep-ocean experiment encounters something that responds only to being observed. As the researchers investigate, they confront evidence of an evolutionary history that has unfolded alongside our own — and an intelligence that may already be studying them.

Psychological Hard SF
World dossier complete

It noticed us first.

Next

In Development

Future World

The next concept is already in motion. Full details on request.

Early-stage

What holds a story together.

"The most valuable thing in any development conversation is a concept that is already done."

Find a story you want to develop.

For project materials, screen-rights enquiries, or creative collaboration, tell us which title interests you and a little about your work. We'll follow up with its current development status, available materials, and possible next steps.