David Thorndill

The Last Vikings David Thorndill

Maybe you read Romeo and Juliet before you saw the play or movie. Read this screenplay before it's made into an action/adventure movie. The Last Vikings was a screenplay selection or finalist at a dozen film festivals including winner of the 2015 Best Action/Adventure Script at the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival, and the Royal Reel Award from the 2016 Canada International Film Festival. Today we worry about global warming, but in the 1400s crops across America and Europe failed because of prolonged cooling. In the Middle Ages when the Little Ice Age causes famine and conflict in the doomed Greenlandic colony a desperate Viking clan leader attempts to escape by sailing to Iceland, but pirates, storms and treacherous sea ice force them to sail to North America. With the help of a native Micmac woman and a Huron ally they battle Mohawk warriors on their journey up the St. Lawrence river to a new homeland beyond the mighty falls of Niagara. A story with the clash of Vikings and native cultures, tragedy, danger, struggle, perseverance, friendship, bravery, Moorish pirates, loyalty, death, betrayal, treachery, prayer, swords, arrows, clubs, heroism, love, deceit, a blue-eyed native princess, three little girls and a heroic dog.