An American Werewolf in Kosovo

GENRE : Action/ Humor/Horror

COMPARISON : 'BEHIND ENEMY LINES' with 'AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON'

LOGLINE: An American pilot is shot down over Kosovo and is turned into a werewolf by Gypsies, who recruit him to help them fight ethnic cleansing.

Zack Ramirez, an African-American/Chicano pilot of the Navy Air Force, embarks on a secret mission over Kosovo and is shot down. (There is also a lower budget version that has Zack as a MP, ambushed by Serbs). Barely alive, he is rescued by a mysterious band of Gypsies. They have no choice but to turn him into a werewolf, in order to save his life.

The humorous pilot finds kinship and romance with the Gypsy Princess, KENYATTA DUMAS. An intelligent, beautiful, yet compassionate freedom fighter who believes in Zack and talks her father into giving him the power of the ‘Warrior Wolf’. The Gypsies themselves are werewolves and fought the nazis during WWII, protecting themselves and Jews, by using this deadly gift. Thay also happen to be descendants of famous Black/French Author, Alexander Dumas.

They give the 'fish out of water' (Zack) a history lesson about genocide in Europe and teach him to use his powers to help the innocent victims of hate groups. Together they fight the Serbian killing machine.

Later, in an ironic twist, Zack finds that he himself was an intended victim of ethnic cleansing by his self-hating, Hispanic Admiral, who despises Zack’s appearance and attitude, although he is a fellow Chicano.

The underlining idea here is that hate groups and facists can come into power ANYWHERE. If it can happen in Ko-so-vo, it can happen in Chi-ca-go, too. In this new millennium, such hate groups cannot be accepted or ignored. Here, the powers bravery and humor help to confront and overcome these challenges.