A BIGEYE STUDIOS ORIGINAL
Long ago, when superstition ruled the land, a Shaolin monk took in an abandoned child no one else would touch. They called him cursed. He trained in silence and became the finest warrior in the land. When a warlord came for the village, the monster they feared became the only thing that could save them.
A SHORT FORM SERIES
Designed for short form audiences. This non-linear saga combines martial arts with the drama and grit of modern outcast storytelling
THE WORLD
16th century Fujian, China. Kung fu was the most dangerous weapon on earth - and the monasteries held its secrets. Temples were sacred only as long as they served the village. Warlords rose and fell on bloodshed. What the people couldn't explain, they destroyed. And those who ruled rarely cared about those beneath them.
In this world, compassion was a liability. And standing out was a death sentence.
CHARACTERS
THE WOLF (BAO) — Early 20s. Covered in coarse hair from birth — the affliction that made him an outcast. Quiet, controlled, lethal. Raised by monks, fights like no one alive. The danger isn't in his violence —it's in his calm.
SUYAN ("TRUE FACE") — 20s. The village healer. Sharp, compassionate, carries her own history with Hu. The first person who looked at the boy and didn't see a monster.
MASTER FU — 60s. Weathered, soft-spoken, moves slowly now. Once one of the finest fighters the temple ever produced. Those days are behind him. What remains is something harder to defeat — a stubborn, quiet love for a boy the world told him to abandon.
LORD HU (THE TIGER) — 40s. Scarred, calculating, ruthless. Rose to power by killing a corrupt official the village feared. They celebrated him. Then the tributes started. Then the executions. Power didn't change him — it revealed him.
THE DIRECTOR
Poull Brien is a filmmaker known for Charles Bradley: Soul of America (Netflix, SXSW Award), Catching Hell (cable series, EP'd with 5x Emmy Winner Bill Pruitt), and Hollywood's Very Unhappy Ending (Bloomberg Originals). Additional credits include branded campaigns for Condé Nast, Aveda, and L'Oreal.
