C:/ULT/DEAD/COW – Prestige Cybersecurity Procedural Seeks Streaming Platform or Studio Partner

The Project:

Hook:

The internet has a founding mythology. Most people don’t know it.
Cult of the Dead Cow — one of the earliest and most influential hacker collectives in history — helped shape the conversations around surveillance, sovereignty, and technocracy that define the world we live in now. This is their story. And it couldn’t be more timely.

Concept:

A one-hour prestige procedural with satirical edge, built on the true story of the legendary hacker collective cDc. Each episode investigates a real digital threat — AI disinformation, ransomware on infrastructure, algorithmic governance, digital identity fraud — while a serialised arc tracks the rise of an existential adversary: an emergent agentic quantum computing system born from government cyber-warfare research.
At its centre is an uneasy alliance between the cDc, a Pulitzer-nominated cybersecurity journalist, and former FBI Director Louis Freeh — navigating a world where the line between criminal, patriot, and visionary has never been harder to draw.
Think Mr. Robot’s technical authenticity meets Silicon Valley’s satirical precision, structured for the sustained audience engagement of Law & Order.

Format:

TV Series · 1-Hour · Scripted Procedural with Serialised Arc · English Language
Franchise: Yes — episodic structure built for multi-season development with international format adaptation potential.

Comparables:

Mr. Robot → critically acclaimed · Golden Globe winner · benchmark for technical authenticity in cybersecurity drama
Silicon Valley → 6 seasons · tech satire benchmark · Clay Tarver co-wrote multiple episodes
Law & Order franchise → 30+ years · proof of concept for procedural longevity and global format licensing

What’s Ready:

Production Status:

✓ IP rights to Cult of the Dead Cow optioned
✓ Pilot script complete
✓ Full series treatment complete
✓ Series overview, 1-sheet, lookbook, casting deck — all available at cdcshow.com
✓ Key creative team attached and active
✓ Fully developed story architecture ready for pilot refinement and production packaging
✓ Full materials available under NDA on request

The Team:

La Mer Walker — Writer & Producer. USC-trained architect turned narrative technologist and producer. Developed and sold television including a series ordered by The CW through Shaftesbury Films and Cookie Jar Entertainment. Former Interactive Design Director within the ABC Television ecosystem. Principal Design & Communications Director at Boston Consulting Group. Helped facilitate financing for David Lynch’s final film project with Duwayne Dunham and Roman Coppola’s Decentralized Pictures. Graduate Interaction Design professor at ArtCenter College of Design. Writer’s Boot Camp alumnus. IP rights holder on Cult of the Dead Cow.

Clay Tarver — Showrunner & Filmmaker. Writer and filmmaker known for Silicon Valley, where he developed his reputation for sharp satire and character-driven storytelling set in the technology world. Uniquely positioned to balance technical realism, dark humour, and dramatic tension across a prestige procedural format.

Joseph Menn — Author & Journalist, Washington Post. Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist specialising in cybersecurity and technology. Author of the definitive nonfiction book Cult of the Dead Cow. Reporting credits at The Washington Post and Reuters. Brings direct access to hacker culture, cyber-crime investigations, and global cybersecurity issues — grounding the series in documented, real-world authenticity.

The Opportunity:

The Ask:

Streaming platform, studio, or co-production partner sought
Open to: Development partnership · Pilot script support · Packaging alignment · Distribution deal · Global co-production
Full written materials available at cdcshow.com and under NDA on request.

Why Now:

Cyber threats, AI governance, digital identity, and infrastructure vulnerability are not background noise — they are the defining anxieties of this decade. C:/ULT/DEAD/COW is the only prestige series that approaches these themes through a true story, with the people who actually lived it attached to the project. The hacker collective that shaped the internet age has never been dramatised at this level. The window to be first is open now.

De-Risked from Day One:

— Optioned IP from a widely recognised, critically acclaimed nonfiction book with existing cultural reach in technology, journalism, and cybersecurity communities globally
— Pulitzer-nominated Washington Post journalist attached as key creative — direct access to primary sources, real events, and documented history
— Silicon Valley showrunner attached — proven track record in prestige tech storytelling at scale
— Pilot script complete — this is a packaging conversation, not a development conversation
— Procedural structure maximises streamer appeal: case-of-the-week accessibility with serialised depth for subscriber retention

Most Interesting Project For:

Streaming Platforms:

A prestige procedural grounded in real IP, with a pilot script ready and a showrunner who already knows how to make prestige tech television. Cybersecurity and AI are universal audience concerns — this series is built to travel globally from episode one.

Studio & Production Partners:

True-story IP. Attached journalist. Attached showrunner. Pilot script in hand. The creative foundation is built — a studio partner comes in at the packaging and production stage, not development from scratch.

International Co-Production Partners:

Cyber threats and digital infrastructure are not American problems — they are global ones. The format is designed for international market adaptation, with companion documentary and podcast extensions that open additional licensing windows from launch.

Interested in this project, please submit your interest through the form. Further information will be disclosed upon reviewing the details.