The Vision Quest: The Next New Multi-platform Franchise

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The Vision Quest: The Next New Multi-platform Franchise

By SQ

Dateline: Culver City, California. SONY PICTURES January 25, 2007

The Vision Quest arrives

Upon entering the elegant Rita Hayworth Dining Room at Sony Pictures lot, former home of MGM Studios and legendary place of countless epic feature films, industry insiders and the press were greeted with an eye-popping, big screen show of concept art for the official book-launch party of author Deborah M Pratt's The Vision Quest: Book One -The Age of Light. In addition to the industry packed, full house and luscious mojitos, the crowd was also treated to a reading by the author herself who took us into her brave and exciting new world. Deborah Pratt, a former actor and current writer-director-producer is best known for co-executive producing and writing the classic, awarding-winning, hit TV series Quantum Leap and the BBC film, Cora Unashamed. So it was no real surprise when V Global Media Publishing President, Aleks Lyons unveiled the umbrella company's, V Global Media Inc., ambitious plans for the first book in "The Vision Quest" Trilogy's global release of book one and the groundbreaking intellectual property it encompassed.

Author Deborah Pratt with publisher Aleks Lyons

Ms. Pratt and Ms Lyons revealed several of the multi-media platforms they has already begun to develop in a variety of areas including web and mobile, TV and interactive games, with very real plans to become the next trilogy of big budget, special-effects laden motion pictures. For now, the first installment of The Vision Quest: Age of Light is available on the official website: www.thevisionquest.com. "The Vision Quest" will soon be available in Barnes and Noble nation wide and in a special package, bundled with Michael Crichton's new bestseller "Next", on Amazon.com. Crighton's "Next" explores the horrific notion of what could be in store for humanity when genetic experiments and genome patents exploit mankind in what many scientists fear could be our impending future. Pratt's "The Vision Quest" takes it as fact in an interestingly similar look at humanity, one hundred years into the near future exploring earth as a world populated and dangerously integrated with human, animal and technological genetic "splicers"; beings originally created in hidden labs sharing the potpourri of plant, insect, fish and animal DNA with one another who are now running, crawling and flying wild all over earth. Spider-rat anyone?

Industry veterans enjoy the show

The central figure of Ms Pratt's fictional tale is eighteen year old Cole Lazerman, who, according to a review on the official website, "seeks revenge against the murderous Black Guard biodroids ... and whose teen-age hormones keep him juxtaposed between his unquenchable anger over the murder of his father and his love for Elana Blue, the almost too-perfect girl of his dreams."

Insiders and guests give rave reviews

Small wonder such a diverse cross-section of Hollywood were in attendance, now that anyone who wants to stay in business in the next decade of entertainment's business plans must include calculated roll-outs in the high-stakes profit fields of internet and cell phone properties, TV, video games, cable, DVD's and that old industry stand-by from the heyday of MGM's glory days... the movies. And "The Vision Quest"? Well, it has it all. We'll be watching