Here are some early example beat-sheets for Under the Sea. They exemplify early rough (read bad) drafts or experiments. In reading them view them more as an experiment in format - rather than an expression fo a filmic or narraitve end result.
# Cast - Professor Pierre Aronnax — exobiologist and ocean physicist; our POV. - Conseil — Aronnax’s calm, hyper-competent systems engineer and field aide. - Ned Land — pilot/diver; plain-spoken pragmatist with a stubborn moral core. - Captain Nemo — mission commander of ESA’s Nautilus under a public–private partnership; heir to a mega-industrial empire (a “Musk-type” scion who chose a different flag).
# Setting ESA’s Nautilus, a high-tech under-ice sub on Enceladus, sampling the global ocean through the south-polar ice.
# Scenes 1. The Sea Monster 1. Undersea Promenade 1. The Giant Squid 1. The Warship 1. Escape
# Notes for Production - AI-augmented, human-led - **Keeps it hard-SF:** EVA limits, heat budgets, comms windows, ascent timing—baked into beats as constraints, not exposition. - **AI’s role:** continuity checks, alt-beat suggestions that respect physics, quick animatics of under-ice shots; humans lock tone and theme. - **Living ambiguity:** Every episode preserves the central question—**organic, AI, or hybrid?**—until evidence within the story justifies a move.