The Last Speakeasy.
“The orchestra plays on. The body cools.”
Manhattan, 1928. A torch singer at the city's last speakeasy finds the police commissioner dead in her dressing room. The bartender is her husband. The detective is her ex.
Included: Bible, Draft, Shooting plan, 31 assigned reference images.
- Animatic coverage
- 35 shots
- Movie coverage
- 8 sequences
- Seedance plan runtime
- 2:58
- Existing reference images and sheets
- Included
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- S01011920s Speakeasy
Establish Vera's command of the speakeasy, then follow her controlled passage through the applause to the private discovery of her husband's untouched drink and his empty place behind the bar.
CliffhangerOn the table — her husband's drink, untouched. He is missing from behind the bar.
1920s speakeasy3 cast - S02021920s Speakeasy
Reveal the Commissioner in Vera's dressing room and follow her silent, controlled response as she secures the room, extinguishes his cigar and confronts the evidence.
CliffhangerShe does not scream. She locks the door from the inside.
1920s speakeasy2 cast - S03031920s Speakeasy
Show Bruno recognizing Vera's predicament, confirming the Commissioner's death and choosing complicity by taking the pocket pistol.
Cliffhanger'I'm taking the gun. We never had this conversation.'
1920s speakeasy3 cast - S04041920s Speakeasy
Show Vera maintaining her composure as Ivar returns from the cellar and silently gives her the Commissioner's sealed letter, while Carlo explains its devastating meaning.
CliffhangerHe hands her a letter the commissioner wrote his wife. 'He was leaving her tonight. For you.'
1920s speakeasy3 cast - S0505Courthouse Corridor
Reveal the photographs and freshly printed scandal story while Judge Hakamoto remains unreadable, ending with wet headline ink transferred to his thumb.
CliffhangerThe headline: COMMISSIONER LOVES TORCH SINGER. The story dropped before the body was found.
Courthouse corridor3 cast - S0606Casino Floor
Vera confronts Carlo in the casino counting room, where the reappearance of the pocket pistol precedes his admission that she was intended to be a planted alibi.
CliffhangerThe boss looks up. 'You're the alibi we were going to plant.'
Casino Floor3 cast - S0707Police Interrogation Room
Bruno lets the Commissioner's wife speak, quietly probes the casino connection, and hears that her husband's departure was welcome rather than a motive for murder.
Cliffhanger'He was leaving me. I was glad. So who needed him dead?'
Police interrogation room2 cast - S08081920s Speakeasy — Near Dawn
Vera turns her closing performance into a chosen confession, takes the silver revolver from the bar, and leaves the speakeasy singing while Carlo and Bruno remain at their posts.
CliffhangerShe finishes the song. She picks up the revolver. She walks out the front door singing.
1920s speakeasy6 cast
- VERA LYON
- Speakeasy Quartet
- Speakeasy Patrons
- POLICE COMMISSIONER
- DET. BRUNO DELLISANTI
- CARLO MARINO
- IVAR NILSEN
- JUDGE HAKAMOTO
- CLERK
- COPY BOY
- Casino Doormen
- COMMISSIONER’S WIFE
- 1920s speakeasy
- Speakeasy back corridor
- Vera’s dressing room
- Speakeasy cellar stairway
- Courthouse corridor
- Casino Floor
- Casino counting room
- Police interrogation room
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