Kestrel

Logline

A field linguist is stationed at a grounded craft and told to answer before the visitors do.

Synopsis

Dr. June Park is flown to a cordoned runway where a craft has sat for eleven days. The committee wants a reply drafted in the visitors’ grammar before the visitors offer one. She is not convinced the message is an invitation.

Comparable titles

Pitch shorthand: Arrival meets Independence Day

Median budget

$47M

Median worldwide gross

$203M

Median multiple

4.3x

3 of 3 comps report both

Newest comp

2016

Title	Rating	Budget	Gross	Multiple
Arrival 2016 Matched on linguistics, alien, first contact, linguist, extraterrestrial Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.	7.6 20k votes	$47M	$203M	4.3x
Independence Day 1996 Matched on alien, ufo, extraterrestrial, spacecraft Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.	6.9 11k votes	$75M	$817M	11x
Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Matched on first contact, spacecraft The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.	7.3 2k votes	$46M	$146M	3.2x

Comps average 7.3 across about 11k TMDB votes. Budgets and grosses are TMDB figures and leave out marketing.

Breakdown

No structured draft on file. A breakdown appears once the writer uploads pages or writes them in Tycoon.

Pages on file

The story takes place in a cordoned runway in the near future, beside a craft that has not opened. The protagonist is Dr. June Park, a linguist asked to answer an alien grammar. The first transmission is not a word list. It is a correction of the sentence the committee already sent.

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Writer

Julian Voss

Writes pilots and features about institutions: labs, precincts, firms. A TMDB person id is a claim stored on the profile.

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