Written by Stephen Volk
(in pre-production)
(Concept poster artwork)
The Soviet Union, 1988. Twin brothers Peter and Viktor Novikov are chosen as the subjects in a secret experiment to test ESP as a new mode of communication in deep space. The brothers, who exhibited telepathy as children, fell out in their teens. Peter stayed to look after the family farm, while Viktor left to pursue his dream of becoming a cosmonaut. Now, while Peter is laced up to biofeedback machines in a remote military station on an island in the Arctic Circle, Viktor is launched into space. Over the ensuing mission, forced into intimate, prolonged contact, the twins' relationship becomes strained to breaking point as past grievances come to the surface. Then Viktor's spacecraft encounters an anomalous "slingshot effect" which propels him away into the darkness of space, alone and adrift. His only lifeline his mental link to his brother on Earth...
Watch "Telepathy" promo/test footage on YouTube
Director: Lesley Manning
Producer: David Collins
(Fifteen and a Half/Samson Films)