Sunday, July 27, 2008

american mercenaries: l.a. gang unit















American Mercenaries Pitch

By Augustine Martinez


For years now, the so-deemed “War for the Rose of L.A.”, a struggle between two of the largest gangs-turned major crime syndicates, has waged on the streets of L.A. – from the ghetto neighborhoods to the local colleges to the glamorous sets of Hollywood. In the crossfire of the gang war, millions of dollars worth of private and public property has been destroyed, many have been killed from stray bullets, and the people of L.A. go to bed scared. To answer this menace of a war, the mayor, once the secretary general of Interpol, forms a new special unit of police seven men deep to combat and finally neutralize this threat, recruiting the best and brightest, and some of these seven, the most reckless, uncontrollable and dangerous from around the world – the best way he know how to fight fire with fire.


Comprehensive Pitch:

For years now, the so-deemed “War for the Rose of L.A.”, a struggle between two of the largest gangs-turned major crime syndicates, which started as an issue over a single prize, a girl whose beauty was beyond any man’s ideal, has waged on the streets of L.A. – from the ghetto neighborhoods to the local colleges to the glamorous sets of Hollywood. In the crossfire of the gang war, millions of dollars worth of private and public property has been destroyed, many have been killed from stray bullets, and the people of L.A. go to bed scared. To answer this menace of a war, the mayor, once the secretary general of Interpol, forms a new special unit of police seven men deep to combat and finally neutralize this threat, recruiting the best and brightest, and some of these seven, the most reckless, uncontrollable and dangerous from around the world – the best way he know how to fight fire with fire.

Now, there is just one more cog that needs to placed in the machine; a seventh member of the Mercenaries: Her name is Piedra Hellena Roces, a once magnificent Latina beauty who had turned resentful of her own exquisiteness. She is now a bounty hunter – a shotgun-totting, hog- and pimped out 1992 Honda Civic-driving, and men-hating bounty hunter at that. Under the bogus threat of jail time for parking tickets, she folds and accepts the D.A.’s offer to join the team. She’s an excellent tracker and gun fighter, and the insight she has to provide is important as well: for she is the rose of L.A.; it was her whom the two gang leaders fought over all those years ago.


The name, “American Mercenaries”:

{Definition of mercenary: A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national or a party to the conflict and "is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party" (Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Convention of August 1949).}

The team is afforded the name because, firstly, these seven are neither from L.A. nor from the United States, and therefore indifferent to the plight of the L.A. public and only after the incentive of higher pay. More importantly the name is due to the fact that they are of different backgrounds (no one is American; one is Mexican, one is Filipino, one is Japanese, one is South African, ect.).








unfinished logo / cover letters:







character design: piedra hellena roces



character design: fedor matyushenko












character design: ayumi mitsui









character design: alberto dela cruz









character design: ruiza bakersfield









character design: nate latimer





























designs by mark devera










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