Devlog
Entries below are taken from dated production records. This is not a marketing calendar, and it does not announce a release.
This website launched on 12 November 2026, a dedicated home for Tim Fox’s adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1871 public-domain novel. The 1871 text is hosted here as an homage, clearly separated from the adaptation.
Continuity locks for the narrator, Zee, Aph-Lin, Tae, the underground city, the lamp road, the civic hall, the mine-and-town surface, and the three-ring vessel were approved for ten-minute long-shot generation. The anchor registry for the five-minute proof short was created the same day. These stills are production references, not finished film frames.
The short film’s grade was locked to a single section-tint scheme: amber for the surface and the mine, cyan-blue for the underworld, and untinted black-and-white for the coda, with the surface amber returning only in the final practical lamp.
A feature workbook draft is dated 1 May 2026: twenty-nine chapters and 334 planned shots, in a Fritz Lang visual ethos, adapting the 1871 novel. That workbook is separate from the later short-film bible. It is a draft, not a finished or released film.