THE ARC BENEATH THE HEART A Bear Saga Trilogy (Animated, mythic adventure)

THE ARC BENEATH THE HEART

A Bear Saga Trilogy (Animated, family-friendly mythic adventure)In a world drowning in digital noise, a modern bear father named BearBeat discovers a hidden “relay” encoded in an ancient woodland and well.

Joined by AI, he must translate this living signal into sound — and broadcast a global antidote to The Static, the dark frequency that feeds on fear, ego, certainty, and doomscrolling. Braiding three timelines — Medieval (Jacque de Molay), Elizabethan (John Dee, Stephen Slaney & Edward Kelley), and Present —

the saga follows unlikely guardians who learn that the message survives not by bloodline or force, but by attention, humility, and love. The villain isn’t a person; it’s a frequency. The hero’s weapon isn’t violence; it’s coherence expressed as music.

Disney heart meets Star Wars myth and Traffic-style intercut storytelling. Warm, funny, emotionally safe characters face epic stakes.

The AI isn’t a gadget — it’s a character with real ethical stakes. And the ending isn’t

“darkness defeated forever”… it’s “we tuned the world — winning is a daily mix.”

Currently in development with a complete one-page pitch, full Character Bible, and extensive prep materials.

Director’s Statement...........  

This story began as a quiet question I couldn’t shake: what if the antidote to our noisy, distracted world wasn’t another screen or another fight, but a single, ancient pattern we’d forgotten how to hear?

I’m writing and directing THE ARC BENEATH THE HEART because I believe we’re living inside a signal war — one where distortion, doomscrolling, and certainty are winning.

In the film, a modern bear father named Bear Beat stumbles onto a living “relay” hidden in an ancient woodland and well.

With AI, he must translate that signal into sound and broadcast it as a global antidote to The Static — the dark frequency that feeds on fear, ego, and the need to be right.

I chose to braid three timelines (Medieval, Elizabethan, and Present) because I love how history keeps handing the same torch forward.

Jacque de Molay plants the seed in fire and collapse. John Dee, Stephen Slaney, and Edward Kelley & Thomas Deloney/DEKKER/LANY "S" turn it into a survivable system.

BearBeat finishes the job not with force, but with humility, music, and love.

The villain isn’t a person — it’s a frequency. The hero’s weapon isn’t violence — it’s coherence.

I wanted Disney heart, Star Wars mythic scope, and Traffic-style intercutting because families deserve stories that feel both safe and enormous.

I wanted warm, funny, emotionally honest bears who still face epic stakes.

And I wanted Terry Tunes — my AI character — to be more than a gadget; he’s a full partner with real ethical weight, learning alongside everyone else that “viral” and “true” are not the same thing.

The ending I’m building isn’t “darkness defeated forever.”

It’s simpler and harder: we tuned the world — and winning is a daily mix. 

That’s the reflex I hope audiences carry out of the EXPERIANCE: pause, listen, choose love.

Right now the project lives in a complete one-page pitch, a 300-page Character Bible, and the thousands of pages of prep.

I’m deep in the trenches, building something I genuinely believe the world needs — a mythic adventure about attention itself.

Thomas Slaney

Writer & Director