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Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in British culture". Born in Berkshire to a Trinidadian Catholic father and an English Jewish mother, Mendes grew up in North London. He read English at Peterhouse at Cambridge University. He began directing plays there before joining Donmar Warehouse, a centre of 1990s London theatre culture. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1993), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). For the first time, he directed an original West End stage musical with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013). For his work on the London stage, Mendes has received three Laurence Olivier Awards for Company, Twelfth Night, and The Ferryman. On Broadway, he earned two Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Play for The Ferryman in 2019 and The Lehman Trilogy in 2022. In film, he made his directorial debut with the drama American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He has since directed the films Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015). For the war film 1917 (2019), he received the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, as well as his second Academy Award nomination for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Mendes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Pitch: Kyle McKnight's father Robert dies..., this leaves Kyle distraught. Kyle is a troubled teen, whose somewhat of a social outcast at school but had his small group of friends that support and help him. Robert was like Kyle's best friend, however Kyle never knew anything about his father's job, what he did while he wasn't home. Kyle and friends all join a MMA fighting club at school to train, while Kyle releases his anger while fighting/training. Later at the funeral of Kyle's father, a man named Hank Striker who claims to know Kyle's father shows up. Hank meets with him asking for Kyle's help. He's an old friend of Robert and worked with him in the Special Forces Program: SILVERRIM, which had be infiltrated and obliterated from the inside by a mole in the agency. It is revealed that Kyle has received special training from his father (that Kyle didn't really view as training) to take his place in the agency (along side with his MMA training). Hank Striker is the only surviving Agent of the agency and recruits Kyle to help him solve a conspiracy among SILVERRIM. Kyle agrees to join and suggests that he should recruits ones for the team too. The newly formed team codenamed: BLACKSTONE, soon find out that there is something much bigger at stake, an unknown virus is being planned to be shot in the atmosphere to expose the whole planet. But they soon learn that the man that they thought was dead is behind the whole thing. Kyle's father... But how?... **TWO MAJOR TWISTS**
