My New Movie From My Novel

Title: “Manna” (feature film) Dirt Poor Films
Author: Mark Anderson
Based on: Baron Harvest by Peter Lind
Genre: Suspense/thriller

Logline: A graduate student must stop his mentor and a ruthless bioengineering corporation before they can seize control of the world’s food supply.

Elliot Chapman is a brilliant but apathetic graduate student who only wants to move on from his sheltered academic life and find a job in the real world. Except that his senior paper, a seemingly simple data-analysis, is more important than he can possibly know—and the numbers just don’t add up.

When Elliot refuses to fudge his numbers so the college’s main corporate sponsor can apply for a patent, Elliot’s mentor comes unglued. Elliot is forced into a compromise that leads him to the company’s testing facility on the Texas-Mexico border to re-run the experiment and discover the source for the data fluctuations.

Except what Elliot doesn’t know, is that these numbers could be worth trillions of dollars and he is caught up in a struggle with global implications between…
…a tempestuous biochemist who desperately wants to corrupt Elliot and bring him into the corporate fold so they can move forward with their secret “terminator” seed.
… the powerful and savvy Columbian drug lord that the corporation has been using to test the terminator seeds, but who has been quietly manipulating international law to betray the company, steal the terminator seed, and seize control of his country.
… and Elliot’s romantic interest, who is a devout environmental activist working to sabotage the greedy corporation—or is she really a double agent?
In a desperate struggle for his own life, Elliot turns to his trusted mentor only to discover that he’s behind everything and is only too willing to sacrifice Elliot for his own greedy desires. On his own, Elliot must find a way to overcome them all. To do so, he must cross into Mexico, escape roaming bands of vigilantes, and bring back the proof he needs to stop the terminator seed from being released on an unsuspecting world.