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Genre: Contemporary Fantasy/Action-Adventure
Logline: When her family inherits a castle with a legendary past, a spoiled influencer has mere days to transform into a warrior and stop a soul-eating necromancer from raising an army of zombie knights and unleashing a dragon apocalypse.

ACT ONE: THE SUMMONING

The story opens in 11th century England, where warrior-poet Wyrtgeorn rescues a mysterious woman named Rowena from direwolves. She possesses otherworldly beauty and ice-blue eyes that captivate him. When King William II demands Wyrtgeorn surrender Rowena—revealed to be a Nephilim—Wyrtgeorn refuses. The dark wizard Myrddin Emrys then appears, offering eternal life in exchange for Rowena, but Wyrtgeorn defies him, setting in motion a curse that will echo through the centuries.

In present-day New York, Dr. Alan Westfield receives a letter from his dying father, Atlas, Baron of Wyrmfeld—a man he fled from thirty years ago after paralyzing his brother Arthur in a jousting accident. Now Alan must confess his past to his wife and his father’s fanatical obsession with the family’s legendary past. Despite his resistance, Alan’s wife Isabella insists on reconciliation. They travel to England with their children: brilliant Ali and her younger brother Jason.

At the crumbling Wyrmfeld Castle, the family discovers that Atlas has become “eccentric,” spending his fortune restoring the medieval fortress while losing most of the estate to billionaire neighbor Phryxus Kalashov, a Georgian arms dealer with an unsettling interest in the property. Atlas warns that disturbing the archaeological dig on the former estate lands will “wake the dragon” that sleeps beneath the lake—a warning Alan dismisses as senile fantasy.

ACT TWO: THE AWAKENING

When Atlas suffers a presumed heart attack, Ali’s quick thinking saves his life temporarily. The family’s presence has attracted the attention of Phryxus, the Georgian oligarch neighbour working in secret partnership with the resurrected wizard Myrddin Emrys to excavate dragon teeth buried on Wyrmfeld lands to build an army of immortal knights. Myrddin, has been slowly rebuilding his physical form by consuming souls—littering a trail of missing persons across the countryside.

Ali and Jason meet Alois Wintersteller, an aging Austrian commando and Atlas’s closest friend, who begins training them in ‘the old ways’ of ancient combat as Atlas requested. Before Atlas can reconcile with his son, Atlas dies mysteriously in the hospital—murdered by Myrddin, who has infiltrated the facility and drained dozens of victims to restore his power. After the funeral, when Phryxus discovers Alan won’t sell the remainder of the estate, he attempts to kidnap Ali and Jason, but Ali escapes.

ACT THREE: THE DRAGON RISES

When the corrupt local police arrest Alan and Isabella on false charges, Alois cautions restraint and enlisting the aid of the enigmatic Jiao, a shaolin monk to train and protect Ali. While he pursuits a pragmatic approach. Phryxus ends such pragmatism by assassinating the family lawyer, leaving Ali no choice but to lead a daring nighttime rescue of her brother from an ancient tower. The raid succeeds, but reveals the horrifying truth—the necromancer has been raising zombie knights using dragon teeth.

During the escape, Ali faces one of the undead knights and experiences a supernatural moment of recognition—the reanimated warrior is Wyrtgeorn himself, and when their eyes meet, memories cascade across time. She experiences Rowena’s life: the dragon’s attack that destroyed the original castle, Wyrtgeorn’s death, and Rowena’s survival as a scarred beggar queen who rebuilt alone and raised their child. Ali carries more than Rowena’s bloodline—she carries her soul.

Myrddin, now at his full strength performs the ultimate summoning, awakening the ancient wyrm from its centuries-long slumber, gaunt and ravenous as the Westfields are celebrating their reunion, Alan finally understands his father’s warnings.

The film ends with a dragon resurrected, Myrddin’s power is fully restored and building an army of undead knights at his command. The Westfield family has only hours to escape England before the rest of the world knows what they know: man’s reign as apex predator is over as a dragon apocalypse begins.

THEMES & TONE

Dragonfield braids intimate family drama with epic fantasy, exploring legacy, reconciliation, and the price of denying one’s heritage. Ali’s character arc from jaded sceptic to reluctant participant and finally fierce defender of her bloodline is the modern hero’s journey that drives the story.

This tale balances visceral medieval combat with contemporary action, grounding supernatural elements in archaeological mystery and historical myth. The dragon itself remains mysterious and terrifying—a primordial force of nature. The romance between Wyrtgeorn and Rowena, provides emotional weight to the present-day conflict.

At its core, this is a story about family bonds and ordinary people facing impossible circumstances, where an American family must literally fight for their ancestral home against forces that have waited nine centuries for revenge.

The ending promises an escalating stakes and expanded conflict where ancient darkness threatens the modern world, setting up a trilogy that will explore the full scope of the war between nature and man, in the allegory of a dragon apocalypse where the fate of humanity hangs on a 900-year-old love story stronger than death itself.