Why we want to tell this story.
When we were three weeks old, we both stopped breathing. Our parents rushed us to the hospital in their Ford Fairlane, our dad performing CPR in the backseat while our mom drove. After the doctors got us breathing again, they figured out we had Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic disease that wrecks the lungs and digestive system like a raccoon at a Wendy’s hotbar. Our parents didn’t make a Faustian bargain with a shadowy figure to save our lives that day (as far as we know), but they did have to meet every day after that with vigilance and soul-twisting compromise just to keep us alive. We wish we could say that as teenagers we fully understood their sacrifices, but we were too busy practicing with our garage band, rewatching Singles twenty-seven times, and sneaking out to field parties (to be fair, those Rolling Rocks weren’t gonna drink themselves).
With SUPERUNKNOWN, we want to make a creature feature that gets at the heart of the parent/teenager relationship. We want to hook into this idea that when you’re young -- like Mason -- you have next to zero understanding of what your parents are going through to raise you and keep you alive. You just can’t appreciate it. By that same token, as parents, we have so much distance from our own childhoods, that we’ve forgotten what it means to be a teenager. And if we can do that while also making a love letter to the mid-90s and grunge, well, we may just redeem all those sacrifices our parents made.
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the Fraziers
Bio
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Chris and Charlie Frazier have written for film and TV for just over ten years. They got their start in 2012 after selling their pilot FLINCH to USA Network. They have since developed both television and features with MGM, Warner Brothers, and Fox, among others. Their current projects-in-development include: RADICAL, a biopic about Civil Rights activist Yuri Kochiyama with Nina Yang at Forest Whitaker’s Significant Pictures producing; A HITMAN’S CHRISTMAS, an action comedy with Todd Garner and Derek Kolstad producing; and UNTETHERED, a half-hour docucomedy series set in a small mountain town one year after Earth lost gravity for five minutes and most of humanity floated into space.
Chris attended undergrad at the University of Maryland, and received his MFA in Screenwriting from Chapman University. He currently lives in Boston with his partner, daughter, trans-daughter and two sons. Charlie has a BA in History and a Masters in Education from the University of North Carolina. Before screenwriting, Charlie was a high school teacher, helping kids understand the absurd dumpster fire that is the English language. He currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his partner, two children, and a dachshund that seemed like a good idea at the time.
