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The Kingdom of New Orleans

Two nations, one free of chains. One chained forever.
The Kingdom holds the world's end.

Alternate history of North America—and the world.
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02 — Series Overview

The Story

In 1763, a secret treaty sells New Orleans like cargo. A city erupts. A man who never wanted power becomes the only man who can save his people — and sets the world on a course toward catastrophe two centuries later.

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He doesn't want power
Philippe Fontainebleau is a 50-year-old mixed-race Creole who lives between worlds, trusted by none. The revolution finds him — not the other way around.
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But history has chosen him
A voodoo priestess has been waiting for him since the night he was born. A rebellion needs a face. A people need a king. Destiny does not ask permission.
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And the world will never recover
The kingdom he builds will last 277 years — and produce a rival superpower that brings the United States to the edge of nuclear annihilation in 2040.
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03 — Tone & World

Grounded. Gritty. Cinematic.

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Fire-lit & intimate
Candle-lit cabins, bayou mist, smoke-filled streets. Handheld realism inside epic historical scale.
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Political & strategic
Power struggles within the rebellion. External threats from empires. Every alliance costs something.
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Mythic & prophetic
Destiny. Prophecy. Legacy. A voodoo priestess who has always known. A shadow that wears a crown.
The Louisiana Purchase never happens
Spain never takes control. New Orleans rebels — and wins. A continent is redrawn not by treaty, but by blood.
A new power rises in North America
The Kingdom of New Orleans. Born from fire. Built on a covenant. The first nation in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery — before the United States exists.
Two ideologies. One continent. No peace.
A monarchy born from revolution. A republic born with chains in its founding documents. They helped each other into existence. They will spend 277 years trying to destroy each other.
04 — Pilot Episode

The Kingdom Shall Rise

Written by Per Hampton — click each act to expand

Cold Open — Over Black
“The Louisiana Purchase will never happen. Not in this world. Here, a kingdom rose first.”
— Mam'zelle Lourdes (V.O.)
Scene 9 — Lourdes' Cabin
“Foolish child. I knew you before you were born.”
— Mam'zelle Lourdes to Philippe
Scene 30 — The Covenant
“A nation wherein all men and women are free. Where none may be bought or sold. Where liberty is no gift — but the first breath of life.”
— Philippe Fontainebleau, founding the Kingdom
Scene 53 — The Banquet Hall
“Freedom.”
— Venus, lifting her veil before Washington
05 — Characters

In the beginning... La Revolution!

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06 — Character Backstory & Reveal Arc

What Keeps Us Watching

The hidden spine of Season One — click each phase to reveal

Philippe's mother was enslaved and loved by a powerful French merchant. The merchant's wife, driven by jealousy, has the baby removed. He is taken secretly to Lourdes. The father is told: the child was stillborn. Philippe grows up believing he was abandoned. His father lives believing his son is dead.

Philippe parents
Philippe's father's wife in a dark cloak with a dagger
Mistress giving Philippe to Lourdes
The defining line of the series
“I was not abandoned… I was erased.”
— Philippe Fontainebleau, mid-season turning point
07 — Series Engine

What Drives Every Episode

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Power within the rebellion
Each faction has its own agenda. The coalition that won the revolt must now survive governing.
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External threats from empires
France. Spain. Britain. The American colonies. Everyone wants Louisiana. The Kingdom must outmaneuver them all.
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Philippe's personal transformation
Reluctant rebel → leader of a people → king of a nation. A man searching for who he was before history chose him.
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Building a nation from nothing
What does a truly free nation look like when the people building it have never been allowed to imagine one? Every law is a debate. Every decision is a test.
Central dramatic question
Can a revolution survive long enough to become a nation — without becoming the thing it revolted against?
08 — Season One Arc

Eight Episodes. One Irreversible Choice.

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Season One Climax
“We shall be a kingdom. Not by tyranny. Not by bloodline. But by covenant.”

A nation is born. The wound with America opens. Everything that follows is consequence.
Philippe Fontainebleau — Pilot Scene 30
09 — Themes

What This Show Is Really About

Lines from the actual script
“Expectation is not destiny, Mr. Jefferson.”— Philippe to Thomas Jefferson, Pilot Scene 48
“Nations are forged upon delicate matters. ‘Tis only tyrannies that hide them.”— Philippe to Washington, Pilot Scene 56
“I was born to chains. What I become now… I choose.”— Philippe, Pilot Scene 40
“Truth cuts deepest.”— Martinique, Pilot Scene 59
“I have seen a crown upon this breast. I have seen banners of many colors under thy hand.”— Mam'zelle Lourdes, Pilot Scene 10
10 — Scope & Future

The Story Expands

Season One
The Birth of the Kingdom
New Orleans — 1763
The revolt. The covenant. The first king. Washington and Jefferson sit at Philippe's table and leave with a wound they cannot name.
Season Two
Empires at the Gate
The New World — 1776–1800
France sends warships. Spain moves to claim the territory. The Kingdom funds the American Revolution — and plants the seed of its own future enemy.
Season Three +
The Kingdom
Two superpowers — 2040
277 years later. Two nuclear superpowers stalk destruction. The last descendant of Philippe Fontainebleau must decide how the world ends — or whether it ends at all.
Story trajectory
The Kingdom rises from revolt to superpower
The American Republic emerges — already in debt to the Kingdom and resentful of it
Two nations, two ideologies, one continent — growing toward inevitable collision
The founding wound echoes through every generation
The Kingdom in 2040 is the final custodian of Lourdes' prophecy
Three narrative levels
Political — Revolution → Nation → War
Personal — Philippe → Mother → Father → Identity
Mythic — Prophecy → Destiny → Crown
11 — Why This Show / Why This Series

Why This Series

✔ Character journey
A protagonist unlike any other
A 50-year-old mixed-race Creole man erased at birth, raised without identity, chosen by prophecy, forced to build a nation from fire. Philippe Fontainebleau has no equivalent in prestige television.
✔ Episode-to-episode engine
Designed for binge progression
Every episode ends with a power shift, a revelation, or an irreversible choice. The backstory reveal arc gives viewers a mystery that deepens across the entire season.
✔ Diverse ensemble
A world that looks like the world
Creoles, freedmen, Germans, Acadians, Manilamen, French dissenters, Spanish defectors, Indigenous allies. Not tokenism — a multiethnic coalition as the story's structural foundation.
✔ Fresh alternate history
The gap no one has filled
No major series has explored an alternate history where the moral failure of American slavery produces a rival superpower on the same continent — one that is not a villain, but a mirror.
✔ Long-form scope
Multiple seasons. One prophecy.
From 1763 to 2040. A story spanning generations, each season a new chapter in a 277-year collision. Built for long-form serialized storytelling.
✔ Emotional stakes
Story immersion, not sales language
Political epic. Personal identity drama. Mythic prophecy. Every viewer finds a different entry point. Everyone stays for the same reason: they need to know how it ends.
Comparable titles — audience overlap
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The Kingdom has arrived.

Two nations, one free of chains. One chained forever.
The Kingdom holds the world's end.

Created & Written by
Per Hampton
The Kingdom of New Orleans — Limited Series
American International Films
+001.310.923.8238
per1@pm.me

Kingdom in 1783
1783
Kingdom in 2040
2040

Director of interest — Nia DaCosta

Est. 1763 — 2040