Devil's Life

About this book

Screenplay from the feature film. 4 avengers of the apocalypse are trying to save the world paralyzed by a mysterious virus. A computer game brought to the screen. An evaluation of life in the universe with augmented reality. The game is played by the viewer being the player and is triggering the four "As", the four avengers of the Apocalypse and lost reality. A voice based in the air is guiding the game: everything defining the rules and what is and nothing is what it seems. The presentation on screen is the train of thought from the four avengers. The entire film is driven by speed: the speed of life in the universe, on planet Earth and inside the story that we are living in. The journey speeds throughout the landscapes whilst at the same time we are made aware that we live in another universe, a parallel universe and the planets are rotating around throughout the story and within the same frame. The four avengers also rotate around at the same time and within the same frame. The story is further guided by a narrator believed to be an unknown force living somewhere on planet Jupiter. The four avengers are constantly seen throughout the story by rotating in and around this universe performing their duties in portraying evil by either signing or shooting indiscriminately at the world with a rifle. The four avengers are also having various conversations on what evil means or is or defined as evil and how evil one can get. An experiment with time and space. The Earth is run by evil and only four people can save the world: the four avengers of the apocalypse. They will …

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About the author

Nick Peterson

24 January 1973

Nick Peterson is a British artist who launched his space persona of Virtual Alien "V.A." and Old Nick at the age of 14 in the late eighties. He has released 24 albums and film soundtracks (Old Nick, War of Love, King of the World, LouDMouth, Red by..., Speed of Light, Remove Your Face) and many books, mainly screenplays to his films (Closer to the Sun, T: Ghosts in the Machine). After returning to further education in the nineties he achieved a BA in English Literature and Drama and an MA in Interactive Multimedia in 2000 at the University of the Arts, London. He ventured into the noble Art of directing interactive feature films and documentaries from 2001.