World & saga
A proposed nine-episode, roughly nine-hour shape for Tim Fox’s adaptation of The Coming Race. A proposal, not a production.
Episode 1 · ~60 min · Book I–II
A professional engineer invites the American narrator into a concealed mine district. A second descent ends when the rock crumbles and the engineer is lost; a vast reptile emerges from a fissure. A short surface prelude is proposed only.
1871 canon
Episode 2 · ~60 min · Book III–V
Alone on a lamplit road through strange fields and pools, the narrator reaches a hall of early Egyptian character. A tall, winged figure meets him, an automaton moves at a staff’s touch, and a household receives the stranger.
1871 canon
Episode 3 · ~60 min · Book VI–VIII
After days of unconsciousness the host’s daughter speaks his language. Vril is named. He is pledged to conceal the upper world, and the house forbids questions about his origin.
1871 canon
Episode 4 · ~60 min · Book IX–XIV
History, customs and civic life staged at length, with a clearly marked historical vision. The episode map for 4–9 is a movement summary, not a screenplay.
Proposal
Episode 5 · ~60 min · Book XV–XVIII
Flight, the museum of obsolete war, the twenty-hour clock, and the Krek hunt at the lake.
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Episode 6 · ~60 min · Book XIX–XXI
The children’s fund, emigration, the flight terraces, and the beginning of Zee’s peril.
Proposal
Episode 7 · ~60 min · Book XXII–XXIV
The narrator is refused leave to tour other tribes. The country estate. Courtship law.
Proposal
Episode 8 · ~60 min · Book XXV–XXVII
A funeral, a princess, and the order that condemns the stranger.
Proposal
Episode 9 · ~60 min · Book XXVIII–XXIX
The escape and the forewarning. The book’s warning stays a warning. An optional short-film coda is Tim’s decision.
Proposal
Runtimes are targets for a nine-hour whole. The existing 180-minute feature draft and the short are separate cuts of the same spine.