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KENNY CHANG
Born in Manhattan as the son of Korean immigrants, he spent the early part of his life in New York City and Seoul, South Korea before calling St. Louis, Missouri his childhood home. Early exposure to multiple cultures coupled with native fluency in both English and Korean has inspired Kenny to be a high concept filmmaker who strives to reach a global audience with his storytelling.
To pursue this endeavor, he’s earned a bachelor’s degree in Film Production and Psychology with a minor in International Business/Industrial Relations & Human Resources Management after studying at Arizona State University and Missouri State University. Currently based in Los Angeles, Kenny has produced, written, and directed 12 short films in addition to having 25 original feature/pilot scripts in his creative vault that are making the rounds in Hollywood. He is also a SAG-AFTRA actor.
Kenny Kil (케니 킬)
Kenny Kil: King of Koreatown - Teaser (케니 킬: 킹오브 코리아타운 - 티저 예고편)
Cut Off Ep. 1 - Dark Times (Pilot)
Director's Reel - Kenny Chang
I'm Coming For You - Teaser
A Little Help / 작은 도움 | 4K
Steve the Raptor / 랩터 스티브 | 4K
Nose Job / 코수술 (Short Film) | 4K
FEATURED SCREENPLAYS
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NOVA SHIELD: THE FALLEN CHAMPION
SPACE SCI-FI FEATURE FILM SCRIPT
LOGLINE: An exiled warrior must face his past life when he gets caught in a rebel invasion on the outer-ring planet of Rachvik and rescues the royal heiress who is determined to save her home.
DANTE JEDDICK (21), a young Nova Soldier, fights for his life on the front lines in the Killandivic War. The battle features Champions on both sides displaying a masterclass of swordsmanship, however an older Nova Champion becomes fatally wounded and in his dying moment unexpectedly gives Dante his Nova Shield. Dante puts on the Shield, bonding with it for life, then picks up his fallen comrade’s Spatha and fights on as a Champion...We fast forward 12 years later as Dante (33) is disheveled, drunk, and jaded on the planet of Rachvik with his crew of salvagers: RUZIC (50), JINSEN (15), and a clunky droid B-7. They get caught in a rebel invasion as Rachvik is under siege. As Dante and his crew escape, they rescue Rachvik’s naive royal heiress, ARMENA DOSS (24). We will follow these characters’ unexpected adventure stemming from the Rachvik invasion. Throughout the journey, our characters find out that an undiscovered Nova Shield has been buried within Rachvik for decades. This has triggered the REBEL FACTION to invade Rachvik, the invasion is the beginning of a crusade to acquire undiscovered Nova Shields across the galaxy to destroy Nova with a clan of Rebel Champions. Over the course of the movie, the Nova Shield’s discovery on Rachvik will impact the lives of our heroes in unforeseen ways. Dante will have to confront his past of how he lost his Nova Shield and save his crew with the Rebel Faction on his tail. Armena will have to overcome her inexperience and sheltered upbringing to seek aid across the galaxy to free her people from the invasion. In order to save Rachvik and to prevent the Nova Shield from falling into the wrong hands, our heroes will have to clash with the Rebel Faction and summon the help of VARLO (60s), an aging Nova Champion who has a deep history with Dante. Varlo gives our heroes a fighting chance but will it be enough as the fate of the universe hangs in the balance?
THE RETIRED OUTLAW
WESTERN FEATURE FILM SCRIPT
Owen Davis is an outlaw in the last days of an illustrious and infamous career. He goes on one last bank heist with his crew into a small town of Southwoods but is massacred by a rival gang (The Red Skeleton Gang), leaving Owen the lone survivor after he hides out in a bar cellar. Crewless, he seeks vengeance as he puts together a crew misfits formed of the bar owner of Southwoods who had lost her daughter in the massacre, a Native American banished from his tribe for marrying outside of his race, a Pinkerton detective that lost all of his men to the Red Skeleton Gang, a Chinese Kung Fu master who escapes enslavement on the railroads, and the Red Skeleton Gang’s leader’s step brother who is fed up with years abuse from his step sibling. However, Owen conceals his identity and his intentions of vengeance as he takes on the false identity of “Olson Davids,” a bounty hunter from Texas, who offers to split the “massive bounty” on the Red Skeleton Gang.
TABBED
ACTION FEATURE FILM SCRIPT
Bryan Poe, former special forces, lives a quiet life running a dry cleaner in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The CIA had gotten Bryan out of a maximum security prison in Russia after he worked as a mercenary all over Eastern Europe following his military service. Bryan then strikes a deal with the CIA to conduct off the books black-ops missions for the U.S. government for his immunity. After finishing his term as an asset, he resides in Harrisburg under a CIA issued identity “George Knight,” an owner of a local dry cleaner. However, he is called upon by the CIA once more after Bryan’s former colleague, Caden Chancellor, goes MIA. It is thought that Caden is leaking U.S. weapons intel to the Middle East and is working with the head of a terrorist organization. Bryan is forced to track Caden down as the CIA threatens to erase his newly issued identity. It is also revealed that Bryan is now the last living anonymous asset who worked alongside Caden who is capable enough to track him down before the matter turns into national security matter. However, Bryan must endure a working relationship with his handler, Hayley Logan, a naive, fast rising agent within the CIA. They encounter hardship in the Middle East after an undercover mission goes south. They then discover that a potential CIA sabotage is in play and work together to capture Caden and uncover the corruption behind the CIA.
REAPERS
FUTURISTIC SCI-FI TV PILOT SCRIPT
In the year 2132, Earth recovers from decimation after managing a decisive victory from an invasive alien race. However, a new threat arises as left-behind alien tech from the war leads to a discovery of spirits that roam the planet. These spirts, called Reapers, jump into to weak human bodies and continue living out their past lives. Most Reapers are sprits that have not moved onto the afterlife due traumatic life experiences and roam the realm of humans to seek vengeance on the world. This new threat is largely ignored by the newly established government, despite evidence and research linking Reapers to majority of violent crimes occurring in alarming rates. Instead of facing the new threat, the Government relies on contracted bounty hunters to resolve the issue. However, the issue of Reapers deepen as it is revealed that the military is readying for a coup using Reapers research and a time-traveling revenant sorcerer appears to control the Reapers to commandeer mankind’s future.
SAINTS OF WAR
FANTASY DRAMA TV PILOT SCRIPT
Five lands across the continent of Ridon battle for supremacy after the King is slain by his sentinels in a coup. We follow the lives of barons of the five lands and a massive religious cult through shifts of power on the continent as they claw for the throne. However, a religious mythology passed down for generations is revealed to be true and Ridon as a whole must deal with Gods and Titans for their survival as judgement day arrives.
GREEN CARD
DRAMA FEATURE FILM SCRIPT
In 1980, a South Korean man attempts to migrate to the United States as he faces the turbulent waves of life and a shaky marriage in his 20 year immigration journey.
ROCKHOUNDS
SPACE SCI-FI FEATURE FILM SCRIPT
In the year 2092, Ben Jacobs owns a failing small private military contracting firm. He employs his close friends who were all former members of his elite special ops unit in the United Command Force (UCF). Ben’s questionable business acumen in the private sector has led to his company mounting annual debt, disgruntling his friends. Facing bankruptcy, Ben and his friends are offered a contracting job from the UCF: an off the books mission to Mars that will clear his debts and offer a once in a lifetime payday for his friends. A blunder has occurred in a joint venture between UCF and Barracuda (energy company) in searching for a new energy source called Xanthrite on Mars as a team of research scientists and a mining crew goes missing. To cover up the blunder and unable to send UCF troops to Mars due to waining public support, Ben and his unit are summoned to sweep the mess under the rug. As Ben and his unit arrives on Mars, the joint venture is much more than what meets the eye as they find out that Xanthrite is directly linked to an undiscovered indigenous alien species on the red planet.
THE IMPERFECTIONISTS
CRIME FEATURE FILM SCRIPT
A burnt out New Yorker DEA agent tries to bust a drug trafficking case in the Midwest while managing his fragile relationship with his daughter.
CHIMERA
DYSTOPIAN SCI-FI FEATURE FILM SCRIPT
In 2035, Dr. Tom Adams leads his team of military scientists and test launches a laser (Goliath Ray) from their satellite orbiting above the United States. The Goliath Ray pierces through and vaporizes a section of an enormous ash cloud blanketing much of the earth, shining sunlight onto American soil in years — the successful launch gives hope to clearing the ash cloud that has resulted from an asteroid impact on Mexico. The cataclysmic event has turned the world into a destitute tundra as years of Impact Winter continues. Dr. Adams takes in the sun just outside of the research facility with his young daughter, Zelyna Adams (7), as he holds her hand. Nothing but smiles as they enjoy this father-daughter moment, Dr. Adams then promises Zelyna to have the sun shine down on the whole world again. His invention will save humanity one day. We fast forward 20 years to 2054, the Impact Winter still reigns supreme with no end in sight. The world of perpetual frigid night is as dark and as cold as ever. Furthermore, scarce resources and the political divide within the country has led America into its second civil war. Pro-science liberals now occupy the coasts and have formed a coalition called the American Coastals. God-fearing conservatives have established their own coalition in the Midwest called the Mid-American Nationalists. Coastal and Nationalist military forces clash all across the continental United States. We join the battlefront action immediately, watching as a platoon of Nationalist soldiers sheltering in a rundown church are massacred by a single Coastal super soldier. This mysterious soldier, recognizable as Chimera from a comic book in the Nationalist camp, wears a menacing and distinct tactical face masked helmet. After the carnage, Chimera kidnaps the sole survivor, a lowly communications specialist for the Nationalist army named Jake, and they hike for many wintry miles to call for an evacuation helicopter. En route, they rescue a young girl from a stranded car and return her to her shelter: a Union Station housing a squalid makeshift community of several hundred in a bombed-out, dystopian in St. Lous. The young girl’s parents trick Chimera and Jake to staying the night then sells them out to a Nationalist platoon nearby. A firefight ensues as Chimera fends off the Nationalist platoon and escapes with Jake. Chimera and Jake reach the city’s communication tower and sends out a distress signal as more Nationalists close in. Nationalists launch an all out attack with zero regard for Jake’s life: anything to take Chimera down. This results in Jake relinquishing his allegiance to the Nationalists then siding with Chimera and the Coastals. Facing near decimation, Chimera and Jake make a dramatic escape as a Coastal chopper, piloted by Chimera’s friend Dax, rains down .50 cal bullets then swoops into rescue them. Dax then flies Chimera and Jake back to the Coastal’s military base. Chimera takes off her damaged helmet in the chopper to reveal that Chimera is, in fact, Zelyna Adams (27).