'So is Legend'

a Feature Film

Learn more about the Strange-Tundra opera here.

'So Is Legend' is a feature film shot in four parts. It follows the journey of three extraterrestrial martial artists navigating an alien forest searching for their home.

'So is Legend' is both a kung fu film, a dance film, and something completely different.

There are characters who practice kung fu, characters who practice contemporary ballet and characters who combine the two art forms to create a hybrid martial dance style. Additionally, they are not depicted as just movement arts, but forms of communication. 

"'So is Legend' honors both art forms by both featuring them separately and marrying them together.

Set design for 'So is Legend' will focus on hyper visual beauty and monochromatic color usage.

We take great inspiration from the 2002 epic Hero. 

Hero allows a single color to take over a scene. The items which live in the set are also key to the scene itself and play a major role in its execution.

In this scene, the green flowing fabric plays a crucial role. It hides the characters at strategic moments in the fight sequence, adding suspense.

The fabric also serves as an interactive prop, with characters cutting through it to reveal one another.

Overall, the fabric acts as a large hanging character in the scene, giving a sense of grandeur and overwhelming largeness for the audience.

The music will be in the composition style 'Strange-Tundra'. 

This style uses samples of tundra sounds and abstract interpretations of frozen landscapes to create music. Strange-Tundra will enhance the alien world atmospherically and draw audiences in. 

Nenom, the home planet of our characters, rests in deep space and is entirely frozen. 

Similar to Saturn’s moon Titan but with distinct differences, Nenom features vast frozen landscapes, endless tundras, ice chunk biomes, bioluminescent alien forests, and snow covering every inch of ground. 

We open with a strange dream: A figure with long white hair, ice-white lashes, and deep grey eyes sits deep in the forest, gazing upwards and smiling. Above them are auroric light creatures, singing in a strange, otherworldly language. The figure with white hair writes words on their arm, occasionally looking down to do so.

Cut to Ddiyemes waking up. Ddiyemes is a non-binary alien dancing creature. I’iae lies next to them, their non-binary friend whom they’ve recently met in the forest.

Both have survived a brutal battle where both sides were massacred. They encountered each other while wandering away from the battle in search of their homes.

They travel through the forest together, camping at night. This isn't Ddiyemes' first strange dream, but it's the most peculiar lately.

Shortly after, while trekking through the forest, they come across a person in the snow. The person appears alive but neither Ddiyemes nor I’iae are certain. They awaken the person, who jolts awake hyperventilating and extremely afraid. They attempt to fight Ddiyemes but collapse from exhaustion and confusion.

After many attempts, they nurse this person back to health and gain their trust. Their name is Âge (pronounced Ah-zh). Âge, Ddiyemes, and I’iae travel through the forest together, becoming as close as brothers or family.

Âge soon begins disappearing at night when the others are asleep. Both Ddiyemes and I’iae notice but say nothing.

One night, they decide to follow Âge when they leave and find them speaking to these light creatures. All three fall into a trance induced by the light entities. They waltz around dazedly and playfully engage in martial dances.

Ddiyemes breaks the trance by cutting one of the light entities. They break I’iae out of the trance as well, but not before Âge is led away by the light entities.

With Âge missing, the trance broken for just them, and the effects of a budding romance between Ddiyemes and Âge, both concerned for their friend's safety, Ddiyemes and I’iae decide to seek out Âge and rescue them from these creatures.

In this vast forest, they have no one else to turn to and their friend may be in great danger, so they embark alone, armed only with their weapons and themselves...

This music video depicts three key scenes from the story So is Legend. 

It is still in post production.

Release Date 12/09/2024

Combining Kung Fu & Contemporary Ballet

'So is Legend' is a kung fu film, it's a dance film, but it is entirely different from any which has been done before. 'So Is Legend' stands out because it combines highly skilled kung fu and contemporary ballet, but in a unique way.

Normally, these art forms are each the focus of separate films. But in 'So Is Legend', some characters practice kung fu, some dance, and others do a combination of both.

This concept blends these disciplines gracefully, honoring their essence through reinvention.

Kung Fu & Ballet are Languages

On this alien planet, we do not just have characters practice these art forms, but use them in an entirely otherworldly way. By acting like a form of communication, they become like languages and enhance the storytelling tremendously. 

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