Ovid Marshall is about to learn the secrets of a tyrant… whether he wants to or not.
Logline: Autistic teenager Ovid Marshall’s life is turned upside down when the ancient soul of a T.Rex bonds with him, riving him into Chicago’s magic underworld in an attempt to save himself.
As an autistic person, I’ve long been frustrated by neurodivergent representation in film and media, but I struggled to articulate a story that would do ‘better’. Autism is a spectrum, and to be autistic is to be a part of a community where one’s own experience is barely representative of someone else’s life.
Dinomancer is the result of me vowing to stop representing others and writing a story about a past version of my autistic self with the most autistic premise possible. It is me hugging and upbraiding the person I was in high school in public view to provide some insight into being neurodivergent; it is making the specific universal.
It is also a pilot where a teenager turns into a magic T.Rex to destroy the heart-devourer from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Percy Jackson wishes he was this cool.