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MAGICIAN
Motion Picture/Television Series
Created/Written by Billy Karl and Gabriel Campisi
LOC Copyright/Registered WGA-w

PRODUCTION NOTE: Lenny Montano, better known as Valentino the Masked Magician on FOX TV's "Secrets of Magic Revealed" series, is attached to star in this project.

There is a place amongst the heavens where Immortals exist. They dwell somewhere between "the real" and "the fantastic." Since the dawn of time, they have touched certain men with the sovereignty to do good, charging them with the ability to help those in need. DARIO VARGAS is one of them. He is: MAGICIAN.

Las Vegas, Nevada – crossroads of the world where good and evil wager their existence. This is where Dario Vargas lives. Performing on stage nightly as the world-celebrated illusionist VARGAS in one of the grand casino showrooms, Dario successfully conceals his alter ego, the masked enemy of evil known only as Magician. He is the last hope for those in trouble who are beyond the help of official channels.

Dario Vargas is the oldest son of a very wealthy Latin-American agricultural family. Tragedy struck as a young boy, when the private plane he and his family were flying in – sabotaged by a drug cartel – crashed. Miraculously, Dario walked out of the wreckage unscathed – the only survivor and lone heir to his family’s vast fortunes. This was the moment he was touched, and a path to his new life began.

Understanding that something very special had happened to his nephew, and watching the troubled young man struggle with his new gifts, Dario was quickly taken in and mentored by his wizened old uncle, ALDENTE. Distracting his young charge from grief, Aldente would perform fun slight-of-hand to make Dario finally smile. Here, in this close relationship, Dario’s love of magic blossomed. Because of Dario’s natural abilities, he was soon mimicking his Uncle’s tricks and improving upon them ten-fold.

Educating Dario in the best schools and colleges in America, Aldente saw to it that his young protégée understood his summons to help those in need. Eventually becoming a very handsome, intelligent and popular young man, Dario embarked on a career as an illusionist with a "special calling."

MAGICIAN is a multiple-themed show, with the triumph of good over evil, the strength of human ingenuity and an indomitable spirit in overcoming adversity. Dario embodies all these themes for a young audience as he devotes his life to helping others with no thought of compensation. All the elements of great action and drama are here: a character we can relate to, an inspirational message – even an object lesson.

The excitement of MAGICIAN will be in the manner Dario Vargas solves the crimes he is pitted against – and the clever villains he must take down. Dario’s reality-defying illusions and gifts will be integral elements to the plot and realization of every episode. Audiences will be left wondering if Dario’s magic is cleverly staged...or REAL.

MAGICIAN. Now you see him. Now you don’t.
 


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