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   We're looking for producers and investors to purchase and or produce                    the screenplay "Dunkleosteus" by Robert E. Stokley

                                                                                   Synopsis

                   A present-day adventure, drama; Set in the Chesapeake Bay Maryland area, on the Patuxent River.

 

 Kevin is a professional fisherman who unfortunately feels responsible for his wife’s recent death in a boating accident. Kevin has arrived in the Chesapeake Bay area for the fall fishing tournament, only Kevin to find himself part of a task force, searching the river waters for a predator fish called Dunkleosteus; which has taken the life of a prominent lawyer.

 

There is a Richard Shriver, a TV reporter, Madoc Wechsler, owner of WCBS TV and Charlie O’Keefe, brother to Bill O’Keefe, who was swallowed by the predator fish. There’re Hugh Murphy, Kevin’s friend and owner of Murphy’s Restaurant and Pub, Sheriff Lamont Erkens, along with deputies Dakota Shapiro who studies onomastics. And Dakota’s conniving boyfriend Doyle Stieber among others. All, part of a task force, searching, chasing and being chased by the predator fish, Dunkleosteus.

 

“Dunkleosteus" the screenplay/film is a thrill ride, with breath-taking action as well as intense drama. A tale of one man’s determination to rid a community of a gigantic predator fish and find true love again.

 

LOGLINE: An intelligent hillbilly Kevin McPharlan, faces opposition from a fishing community of Chesapeake Bay, on the Patuxent River. Conflict arises as a conniving deputy sheriff Doyle Stieber, tries to sabotage a task force assigned to rid the area of a gigantic prehistoric predator fish called “Dunkleosteus”. 

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More About Dunkleosteus

                                                                                             “Dunkleosteus”

 

                       How a prehistoric fish like “Dunkleosteus” terrelli could still exist and be in the waters in present time. 

 

In 1938 a Coelacanth which is a placoderm thought to be exstinct, was found off the coast of Africa by fishermen. A Coelacanth is a Placoderm, which is a primitive jawed fish as is Dunkleosteus which is usually known only from fossil remains from the Devonian period). The Devonian period is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era, spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 419 million years ago, to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 358.9. million years ago.

 

Dunkleosteus had armour plating on the front third of its body. And it was shown to have been a cannibal. Dunkleosteus force bite was remarkably powerful at 11,000 pounds and could suck its prey in its mouth in a 50th of a second.

 

This could make it very possible for a Placoderm like Dunkleosteus to exist in present day, which grew up to be over thirty feet long with a 3 inch thick armor plated skull. Dunklesteus predator bite was remarkably powerful: the force of this predator’s bite was remarkably powerful: 11,000 pounds. The bladed dentition focused the bite force into a small area, the fang tip, at an incredible force of 80,000 pounds per square inch. And could suck it’s prey in a 50TH of a second. Wow, now that is one hell of a fish.

 

After doing some research and speaking with a renowned paleontologist by the name of John Long, an Australian paleontologist who is currently a strategic Professor in Paleontology at Flinders University, in Adelaide, South Australia

 

Mr. Long informed me that large prehistoric fish like Dunkleosteus, would often head to the rivers when spawning which is the act or process of producing or depositing eggs for offspring, which occur in large numbers.

 

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