Gunman family of filmmakers

Date: 10/16/2025

A father, wife, son, and brother pull up to a hotel. The kids are young. The hotel is whimsical, it’s like the King Kong era of the world but with the magical perspective of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The family’s house mysteriously burned down. At the hotel the father and son see a man walking away up the stairs. He is wearing a cargo jacket with the Gunman Filmmaking logo on the back. This inspires the father who was feeling hopeless. It’s been years but he wants to do one last filming adventure, this time as a family. Throughout the adventure the son has flashbacks to the childhood home where the father had a private room that no one else was allowed in. He would watch his father go in and always burned with curiosity of what could be in there and why he spent so much time in there. But as he grew he came to accept that he would never know due to the fire that destroyed the home. Ultimately the family ends up contained in some kind of humane prison environment. Another hotel but they are not allowed to leave. There are guards everywhere and the place is surrounded by a tall fence. It is implied that the family ended up there not by actual moral wrongs but by either some kind of mistake or harmless technicality. The brothers are young adults now. The son is married. His wife spends most of her time cooking and cleaning with the mother. The women stay positive and make the most of the situation. The son observes. The father now has dementia. Every day he makes his rounds, introducing himself to the same people, believing himself to be a “consultant.” He repeats the same conversations about 18 times a day, with the same vivacity each time as if he never said it before. The brother is obsessed with escaping. He eventually builds a hang-glider and makes it over the fence with it. They don’t know what happened to him after he escaped. The son watches his father walk behind a curtain. He never knew there was anything behind the curtain. He pulls it back to reveal a hidden hallway. He sees just in time his father walking into a room, leaving the door open. The son approaches and looks in. He realizes it’s the room from his childhood home that he never got to see. It’s filled with movie memorabilia— posters, props, costumes, screenplays, all from films the father worked on. Small tables in the center of the room display vintage camera equipment. The father stands looking around, smiling in pride.