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The Atomic Guardian
Season 1
Hail Regina – an original creative universe
Hail Regina has grown over two decades into an original body of work spanning literature, screenwriting, music and theatre: 3 novels, a 12-episode screen series, original soundtracks and a stage work featuring aerial performance.
One Creative Universe, Two Forms
Hail Regina is told twice: as a literary series of three e-novels, and as a twelve-episode screen series across three seasons. The 24 episode-chapters of the novels follow the same story as the screen episodes, so each form deepens the other.
e-novel Trilogy | 24 episode-chapters
8 episode-chapters | speculative satire | comedy-drama
Season 1: Revised edition relaese 2027
About the Work
This is Kevin Karmalade's debut series, penned as speculative satire. An essay on the making of the work, "The Transformation to Artist" is placed at the end of book one. The novels do not set out to mirror societal dysfunction, as many past genre works did. The series is a comic, theatrical take on the tradition of dystopian fiction. The overt theatrical flamboyance denotes that Hail Regina is written to entertain above all else. Rated 14+ for mature themes.
Influences
Stylistic influences include the Menippean satirists: 'In Praise of Folly' by Erasmus (1511), 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift (1726), 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848) and 'The Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). Dystopian influences include 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1920), 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley (1932), 'Player Piano' by Kurt Vonnegut (1952), 'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury (1953) and 'The Children of Men' by P.D. James (1992).
Season 2: Releasing 2027 Q3
Season 3: Releasing 2027 Q4
Script Book
The screen series is also being prepared as an illustrated script book, presenting the teleplays in a reading edition alongside the novels.
Screen series | 3 Seasons | 12 episodes
Written for both traditional and emerging screen platforms
696 minutes
comedy-drama
dystopian | satire
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IP Industry
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For screen professionals & AI platform enquiries:
The synopsis, series bible & scripts are available
upon request.
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FROM THE ARTS PRESS
BMA MAGAZINE
"For those enthusiasts who have indulged in Bulgakov's surreal world, then
Hail Regina should not disappoint."
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Word Theatre: Words & phrases riffed from the series
