A Film By
James Carman
“BEETLEJUICE
MEETS
THE Omen”
“A Hilarious Rollercoaster Ride of Apocalyptic Proportions”
Nicole M. Robertson
A Film By
James Carman
“BEETLEJUICE
MEETS
THE Omen”
“A Hilarious Rollercoaster Ride of Apocalyptic Proportions”
Nicole M. Robertson
Logline
John, an Advertising Guru, has misgivings when the numbers 666 appear on his head. Omens of the Apocalypse appear. His best friend’s fiancée accuses him of being You-Know-Who. How can he be the Antichrist if he’s the Best Man at their wedding?
Logline
John, an Advertising Guru, has misgivings when the numbers 666 appear on his head. Omens of the Apocalypse appear. His best friend’s fiancée accuses him of being You-Know-Who. How can he be the Antichrist if he’s the Best Man at their wedding?
Synopsis
Advertising Guru, John, and his scintillating wife, Lili, invite John’s frat buddy, Duncan, and his fiancée, Fiona, over for a cross-country visit. They expect to regale their friends with an evening of laughter and fine dining. Instead, they’re tormented by ominous omens from the infernal realms. Not all is well in suburbia.
The overnight stay gets off to a rocky start when Fiona tries to remove the numbers 666 that are etched on John’s scalp. Hyper-religious, Fiona sees the Antichrist in every move John makes. Fiona’s misguided heroics quickly escalate. She tries to kill John with a butcher knife in order to ‘save the world.’ John staves her off with fuzzy logic and magnetic allure.
But as the evening veers towards midnight, the sumptuous dinner becomes a Last Supper for the Apocalypse. Supernatural mayhem is unleashed upon their regal estate.
‘The End is Probably Almost Nearly Here’ is a riotous blend of dark comedy and supernatural suspense.
Does this party finish with dessert—or the end of the world?
Synopsis
Advertising Guru, John, and his scintillating wife, Lili, invite John’s frat buddy, Duncan, and his fiancée, Fiona, over for a cross-country visit. They expect to regale their friends with an evening of laughter and fine dining. Instead, they’re tormented by ominous omens from the infernal realms. Not all is well in suburbia.
The overnight stay gets off to a rocky start when Fiona tries to remove the numbers 666 that are etched on John’s scalp. Hyper-religious, Fiona sees the Antichrist in every move John makes. Fiona’s misguided heroics quickly escalate. She tries to kill John with a butcher knife in order to ‘save the world.’ John staves her off with fuzzy logic and magnetic allure.
But as the evening veers towards midnight, the sumptuous dinner becomes a Last Supper for the Apocalypse. Supernatural mayhem is unleashed upon their regal estate.
‘The End is Probably Almost Nearly Here’ is a riotous blend of dark comedy and supernatural suspense. Does this party finish with dessert—or the end of the world?
“Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
REVELATION 13:18 KING JAMES VERSION
Characters
John
30s, Advertising Guru and possible Antichrist. A Svengali-like master of hypnosis, his mesmeric qualities convince his devotees to buy industrial-sized bags of Cheetos and willingly jump off cliffs.
Characters
John
30s, Advertising Guru and possible Antichrist. A Svengali-like master of hypnosis, his mesmeric qualities convince his devotees to buy industrial-sized bags of Cheetos and willingly jump off cliffs.
Lili
30s, Forensic pathologist and wife of John. Beastly and beguiling, Lili orchestrates social gatherings with grace and aplomb. Skating in lockstep with her oversexed husband, she’s the ‘voice of reason’ until her passions erupt.
Lili
30s, Forensic pathologist and wife of John. Beastly and beguiling, Lili orchestrates social gatherings with grace and aplomb. Skating in lockstep with her oversexed husband, she’s the ‘voice of reason’ until her passions erupt.
Duncan
30s, Insurance Guru and best friend of John, a big guy with a perpetual smile, an ex- frat boy for whom the party has never stopped. He never met a stranger he couldn’t sell a bloated policy to.
Duncan
30s, Insurance Guru and best friend of John, a big guy with a perpetual smile, an ex- frat boy for whom the party has never stopped. He never met a stranger he couldn’t sell a bloated policy to.
Fiona
30s, Nurse and fiancée of Duncan. A pugnacious, high strung “woman of faith” who becomes hostile when her sense of morality is threatened. Her righteousness creates hell on earth for friends and enemies alike.
Fiona
30s, Nurse and fiancée of Duncan. A pugnacious, high strung “woman of faith” who becomes hostile when her sense of morality is threatened. Her righteousness creates hell on earth for friends and enemies alike.
Location
Just a modest European castle where the fate of the world hangs in the balance…
Location
Just a modest European castle where the fate of the world hangs in the balance…
Director’s Notes
I’m moved to create a satire which critiques extremism and group think. ‘The End is Probably Almost Nearly Here’ exposes the absurdities of dogmatic faith vs. the caustic power of advertising. It sets up a boxing match between themes of gender, inequality and social engineering. With sharp dialogue and dark humor, it examines prophecy and hostile oligarchy.
The beauty of a comedy is our ugliest truths and taboos can be laid bare in cauterizing sunlight, letting us laugh at our own chaos.
This film mirrors our societal struggles through the story of four friends meeting for an overnight stay. They deftly fight a pitched battle between ‘The Religious’ and ‘The Corporate Elite’. No punch is left unthrown. In a flurry of verbal fisticuffs, the battle reaches a dizzying crescendo of punch-drunk mayhem.
This furious pace will be juxtaposed with compassionate sequences portraying each character’s inner landscape. The film will project a burlesque, hyper-realistic feel.
Through comedy, we engage in child’s play. We recapture the spark of life, reuniting and inviting connection through laughter.
Director’s Notes
Based on the play, ‘The Antichrist Cometh’, by David MacGregor, ‘The End is Probably Almost Nearly Here’ portrays the cultural battlefields plaguing our world. In the most unabashed way, it pits Fundamentalist-Progressive and Believer-Atheist divides against one another.
In the Land of the Free, divergent views are not allowed.
If you live in LA, why engage with low-brow heathens from ‘fly-over-land’? If you live in ‘fly-over-land’, why trust coastal elitists who scorn the hierarchies of heaven?
The beauty of a dark comedy is that the ugliest truths and taboos can be excavated and laid bare in cauterizing sunlight.
This film playfully depicts our societal struggles through the story of four characters meeting for an overnight stay. They deftly fight a pitched battle between ‘The Religious’ and ‘The Enlightened’. To assert their beliefs, no punch is left unthrown. In a flurry of verbal fisticuffs, the battle reaches a dizzying crescendo of punch-drunk mayhem. The four friends collapse, exhausted.
With sharp dialogue and dark humor, ‘The End is Probably Almost Nearly Here’ reveals how faith and prophecy can be skewered. It explores themes of power, salvation and the insidious charm of advertising.
COMPARABLES
BEETLEJUICE ( 1988 ) Directed by Tim Burton
Budget: $15 Million
Box Office: $84 Million
THE OMEN ( 1976 ) Directed by Richard Donner
Budget: $2.8 Million
Box Office: $60 Million
COMPARABLES
BEETLEJUICE ( 1988 ) Directed by Tim Burton
Budget: $15 Million
Box Office: $84 Million
THE OMEN ( 1976 ) Directed by Richard Donner
Budget: $2.8 Million
Box Office: $60 Million
Bios
James Carman
is inspired by the worldly and otherworldly. He’s an award-winning director and cinematographer.
His feature length documentary,‘The Hidden Hand; Alien Contact and the Government Cover-up’ explores the phenomena of alien contact. It won 5 awards and is distributed internationally. It was an Amazon and Netflix top 10 bestseller. His dystopian, sci-fi graphic novel, ‘HyperParanøid: An Ascension Story,’ is an Amazon best-seller.’
James shot five features shown at the MoMA Retrospective of renowned filmmaker, Bruce LaBruce. He shot Guggenheim LG Artist of the Year, Shu Lea Cheang’s ‘3x3x6’, centerpiece of the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
In 2023, he produced his most recent short, ‘Bitter Brownies,’ which has won over 100 awards worldwide. In 2024, he was honored with the Best Jewish Film award for the feature, ‘Set Me Free,’ which he shot and co- directed. He also lectured about sci-fi and human rights at the G-20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
is inspired by the worldly and otherworldly. He’s an award-winning director and cinematographer.
His feature length documentary,‘The Hidden Hand; Alien Contact and the Government Cover-up’ explores the phenomena of alien contact. It won 5 awards and is distributed internationally. It was an Amazon and Netflix top 10 bestseller. His dystopian, sci-fi graphic novel, ‘HyperParanøid: An Ascension Story,’ is an Amazon best-seller.’
James shot five features shown at the MoMA Retrospective of renowned filmmaker, Bruce LaBruce. He shot Guggenheim LG Artist of the Year, Shu Lea Cheang’s ‘3x3x6’, centerpiece of the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
In 2023, he produced his most recent short, ‘Bitter Brownies,’ which has won over 100 awards worldwide. In 2024, he was honored with the Best Jewish Film award for the feature, ‘Set Me Free,’ which he shot and co- directed. He also lectured about sci-fi and human rights at the G-20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
DAVID MACGREGOR
is a Resident Artist at The Purple Rose Theatre Company in Michigan, which premiered nine of his plays.
They included ‘The Late Great Henry Boyle’ (2006), ‘Vino Veritas’ (2008), ‘Gravity’ (2010), ‘Consider the Oyster’ (2011), ‘Just Desserts’ (2014), ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear’ (2018), ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Fallen Soufflé’ (2019), and ‘Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Ghost Machine’ (2022) and ‘The Antichrist Cometh’ (2024). His work has been published by Dramatic Publishing, Playscripts, Smith & Kraus, Applause, Heuer Publishing, and Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW). His play Gravity, about the mental collapse of Isaac Newton in 1693, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2013, ‘Vino Veritas’ was adapted into a film.
All three of his Sherlock Holmes plays have been adapted into novels, which are available from MX Publishing, as is his two-volume nonfiction book, ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Hero with a Thousand Faces.’
is a Resident Artist at The Purple Rose Theatre Company in Michigan, which premiered nine of his plays.
They included ‘The Late Great Henry Boyle’ (2006), ‘Vino Veritas’ (2008), ‘Gravity’ (2010), ‘Consider the Oyster’ (2011), ‘Just Desserts’ (2014), ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear’ (2018), ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Fallen Soufflé’ (2019), and ‘Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Ghost Machine’ (2022) and ‘The Antichrist Cometh’ (2024). His work has been published by Dramatic Publishing, Playscripts, Smith & Kraus, Applause, Heuer Publishing, and Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW). His play Gravity, about the mental collapse of Isaac Newton in 1693, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2013, ‘Vino Veritas’ was adapted into a film.
All three of his Sherlock Holmes plays have been adapted into novels, which are available from MX Publishing, as is his two-volume nonfiction book, ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Hero with a Thousand Faces.’
Bios
JÜRGEN BRÜNING
Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion was founded in 1986, Berlin, Germany. Jürgen is synonymous with daring, thought-provoking cinema, producing innovative, boundary-pushing films for over three decades.
His company’s portfolio ranges from art-house features to socially relevant documentaries. Jürgen produced 6 feature films which were shown at the 2015 MoMA Retrospective of Bruce LaBruce.
He produced 3 films for 2024 Gugenheim Artist of the Year, Shu Lea Cheang.
Her ‘3x3x6’ was Taiwan’s entry in the 2019 Venice Biennale.
He produced Thunska Pansittivivorakul’s ‘Danse Macabre’, 1st Prize Taiwan Int. Doc. Film Festival and ‘Santhikiri Sonata’, 1st Prize Int. DocLisboa FF.
He worked with Cheryl Dunye (Bridgerton TV Show), on her ‘The Watermelon Woman’ and produced her ‘Mommy is Coming’, (Berlinale Premiere). He’s collaborated with artist, Nan Goldin, writer, Dennis Cooper, fashion icon, Tony Ward and many more.
Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion was founded in 1986, Berlin, Germany. Jürgen is synonymous with daring, thought-provoking cinema, producing innovative, boundary-pushing films for over three decades.
His company’s portfolio ranges from art-house features to socially relevant documentaries. Jürgen produced 6 feature films which were shown at the 2015 MoMA Retrospective of Bruce LaBruce.
He produced 3 films for 2024 Gugenheim Artist of the Year, Shu Lea Cheang.
Her ‘3x3x6’ was Taiwan’s entry in the 2019 Venice Biennale.
He produced Thunska Pansittivivorakul’s ‘Danse Macabre’, 1st Prize Taiwan Int. Doc. Film Festival and ‘Santhikiri Sonata’, 1st Prize Int. DocLisboa FF.
He worked with Cheryl Dunye (Bridgerton TV Show), on her ‘The Watermelon Woman’ and produced her ‘Mommy is Coming’, (Berlinale Premiere). He’s collaborated with artist, Nan Goldin, writer, Dennis Cooper, fashion icon, Tony Ward and many more.
ALEX DEMETRIOU
is an up-and-coming producer and collaborator with Jürgen Brüning. Since 2016, Alex helped realize the groundbreaking films of visual artist Shu Lea Cheang (UKI, 3x3x6).
In 2021, Alex produced ‘ORFEAS2021’, a boundary- pushing queer film-opera funded by the Greek National Opera.
Alex is also a visionary curator. She put Sound Acts (2015- 2017), Gender Fest (2017) and the Athens Festival of Queer Performance (2019) on exhibition. In 2023 Alex curated and produced Dreamland, an avant-garde film festival at the Greek Film Archive as an homage to pioneering filmmaker, Jack Smith.
is an up-and-coming producer and collaborator with Jürgen Brüning. Since 2016, Alex helped realize the groundbreaking films of visual artist Shu Lea Cheang (UKI, 3x3x6).
In 2021, Alex produced ‘ORFEAS2021’, a boundary- pushing queer film-opera funded by the Greek National Opera.
Alex is also a visionary curator. She put Sound Acts (2015- 2017), Gender Fest (2017) and the Athens Festival of Queer Performance (2019) on exhibition. In 2023 Alex curated and produced Dreamland, an avant-garde film festival at the Greek Film Archive as an homage to pioneering filmmaker, Jack Smith.
Contacts
JAMES CARMAN
+1 917-208-8806
James@JamesCarman.net
JÜRGEN BRÜNING
+49 175-7374157
Anger@Snafu.de
ALEX DEMETRIOU
+49 176-29544906
Alex.Demetriou@ZohoMail.eu
JAMES CARMAN
+1 917-208-8806
James@JamesCarman.net
JÜRGEN BRÜNING
+49 175-7374157
Anger@Snafu.de
ALEX DEMETRIOU
+49 176-29544906
Alex.Demetriou@ZohoMail.eu