TALON
Rainard City · Index
Every surface reflects guilt.
●Rainard City/Winter 2026

Talon

Every surface reflects guilt.

Directed By Rob Prior

A Rainard Noir Picture

Rainard · 2026Coming Soon
●Official Trailer

Watch The Teaser

● Statement Of Intent

TALON is not about a hero returning.

It is about what happens when the thing that saved a city becomes one more thing it has to survive.

●Story Plates
First Strike
01First Strike
Alley Ambush
02Alley Ambush
The Evidence Wall
03The Evidence Wall
Vault / 03:14
04Vault / 03:14
01/The Case
A1/Rainard · After Midnight
B2/Evidence · 03:14

The City Was
Never Saved.

Rainard City built monuments to its own survival. A cleaner skyline. A stronger police force. A mayor people believed in. A pharmaceutical empire promising the future.

But underneath the glass, the old city kept breathing.

When Mayor Kiera Ashford is murdered in what looks like a hit-and-run, her daughter Marley finds the first loose thread in a machine built from money, silence, and bodies.

Her father, Augustus Pembrooke, once known as Aquila, thinks he already knows the answer. He doesn't.

Because this time the enemy isn't hiding in the alleys. It is inside the city's blood.

"Every surface reflects guilt."

● Rainard / After Dark

The City
Doesn't Sleep.

Neon bleeds into the rain. Sirens fold into the architecture. Every block is a witness that learned to keep its mouth shut.

03/The City

Rainard City
Remembers.

Rainard City is not backdrop. It is pressure. Black glass over flooded streets. Brutalist civic buildings stained by decades of public lies. The rain does not cleanse this place. It reveals what refuses to stay buried.

●Locations
Rainard First National Bank
01Rainard First National Bank
Aquila's Lair
02Aquila's Lair
Trinity Mound Cemetery
03Trinity Mound Cemetery
Kiera's House
04Kiera's House
Pembrooke Pharmaceuticals
05Pembrooke Pharmaceuticals
The Boardroom
06The Boardroom
The Green House
07The Green House
Subway / Run
08Subway / Run
After The Flood
09After The Flood
Rainard First National Bank
01Rainard First National Bank
Aquila's Lair
02Aquila's Lair
Trinity Mound Cemetery
03Trinity Mound Cemetery
Kiera's House
04Kiera's House
Pembrooke Pharmaceuticals
05Pembrooke Pharmaceuticals
The Boardroom
06The Boardroom
The Green House
07The Green House
Subway / Run
08Subway / Run
After The Flood
09After The Flood
04/The Network

The Garden
Was Already Here.

One murder becomes a pattern. A mayor. A bank. A pharmaceutical empire. A broken vigilante. A missing file. A rose. A sniper. A room full of women trained to erase problems before they become history. Rainard City was never the root. Only one branch.

"Ladies, there's a weed in my garden."

05/The Watchers

The City
Is Always Looking.

TALON does not work alone. It works with the cameras, the satellites, the traffic lights, the phones in every pocket.

Every face is a record. Every footstep is a timestamp. Every door you open writes a line in a file you will never read.

Surveillance in Rainard is not a system. It is a climate.

You do not get watched here. You get archived.

"Privacy is a rumor in this city. And rumors get people killed."

●Subjects / Unidentified

Faces The City
Refuses To Name.

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File / Sealed by order of the Mayor's Office
● Surveillance / Live

Something Is
Always Watching.

Cameras on every corner. Eyes behind every window. In Rainard City, privacy is a rumor — and rumors get people killed.

●06/Concept Art

Painted By Hand.
Bled Onto Canvas.

Original works by Rob Prior — the physical foundation Rainard City was built from.

Original Painting · Rob PriorMixed Media
Original Painting · Rob PriorOil
Original Painting · Rob PriorAcrylic
Original Painting · Rob PriorMixed Media
Original Painting · Rob PriorAcrylic
Original Painting · Rob PriorMixed Media
"Every world begins as an image someone couldn't let go of."
— Rob Prior
05/The Creators

Built From Paint, Rain,
Violence, And Memory.

A painter and a cinematic architect, building Rainard City out of rain, paint, and inherited damage.

Rob Prior — Director · Painter · Visionary · Mythmaker
01/Lead Creator
Director · Painter · Visionary · Mythmaker

Rob Prior

Rob Prior is a living legend — the artistic visionary, mad genius, and ultimate entertainer behind TALON.

A fifty-year career forged in paint, performance, and the dark mythologies of pop culture. Trained at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the University of Toledo (MFA, Studio Art), Prior has spent his life dragging worlds out of his hands and onto canvas, screen, and stage.

He painted the original theatrical poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens — called the single-most-viewed painting in history. He was the monster master on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created iconic art for Firefly, and contributed to HBO's Game of Thrones, Marvel Comics, and LucasFilms.

He has live-painted on stage with Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Pantera, Tech N9ne, Imagine Dragons, and Steve Aoki. He stood beside Roger Goodell at the NFL Draft, presented a portrait of Joni Mitchell to MusiCares, and partnered with Stan Lee on the 115-piece Legacy Collection that catapulted him to international fame.

In 2021, his live portrait of Virgil Abloh sold at Art Basel Miami for one million dollars. He has received the Arts and Humanitarian Award at Art Basel Switzerland. Next, he trains to become an astronaut — to paint thirty new works in orbit, live, from space.

Now he turns that same fifty-year obsession with myth, violence, beauty, and damage into TALON. The mask. The city. The film. The vision. Every frame of Rainard City passes through his hand first. This is not an adaptation. This is Rob Prior, undiluted.

"I don't paint stories. I drag them out of the dark and force them to stand in the light."

Christopher Johann — Cinematic Development Director
02/Creator
Cinematic Development Director

Christopher Johann

Christopher Johann helps build cinematic worlds before they become films.

Working across film, 3D, design and AI driven visual development, he translates early ideas into atmosphere, structure and visual language. His work focuses on creating images, systems and cinematic references that help a world feel tangible before production begins.

Over the years, Johann has worked with international clients including BMW, Hyatt Hotels, Hard Rock Hotels and many more. He is also writing and directing The Belgian Barrels, a Netflix series currently in development.

Johann is currently developing Andromeda One, an ambitious crowdfunding driven sci fi drama set on the Moon, where humanity's lunar frontier has become a brutal border state. The project combines gritty realism with an interactive voting system, allowing the audience to influence how future episodes continue.

For TALON, Johann supports the cinematic development of Rainard City, shaping its rain soaked architecture, surveillance atmosphere, character mood, image language, AI lookbook and interactive presence.

His role is not to define the mythology of TALON, but to help give it visual weight. The concrete. The light. The tension. The feeling of standing inside a city that never stops watching.

"Not just how TALON looks. How it feels to stand inside the storm."

●10/Concept Design & Storyboards

From Frame
To Violence.

Design studies, storyboard sequences, shot language, and visual development for TALON.

This is not behind-the-scenes decoration. It is the blueprint for the movie’s violence, silence, and emotional damage.

Before Rainard City moves, it has to be built. Every mask. Every rooftop confrontation. Every fight beat. Every close-up. Every broken piece of armor.

This is where TALON becomes cinematic language — not just what the world looks like, but how it is photographed, blocked, cut, and felt.

The concept design and storyboard archive reveals the machinery behind the storm: camera angles, action rhythm, character tension, costume evolution, and the brutal visual grammar of Rainard City.

Camera LanguageBlockingRain ContinuityAction RhythmMask DesignCity TextureEmotional Damage
Script→
Concept→
Board→
Frame→
Film
Storyboard Sequences

Precision Inside the Storm.

The storyboards translate TALON’s emotional violence into precise cinematic rhythm. Rain. Distance. Impact. Silence. A look held too long. A body hitting wet concrete. A father and daughter standing in the same storm but carrying different wounds. Every panel is built around tension, blocking, and consequence.

Storyboard sheet for TALON
Hold on Marley reaction +2 beats
Push in after rain spike
TALON is built one image at a time.
Not polished.
Not clean.
Not safe.

Designed to feel like it was dragged out of the rain and left on the floor of a room nobody was supposed to enter.

●09/Expanded Universe

The Story Doesn't
End With The Film.

Comic Series · Novel · Future Worlds

TALON was built to live beyond a single screen. Rainard City has too many locked doors for one film to open. Too many buried names. Too many bodies hidden beneath rain, concrete, politics, and blood.

The feature film is the beginning. The comic explores the shadows between the scenes — the violence, the family damage, the case files, the assassins, and the parts of Rainard City that only exist in panels, ink, and silence.

The novel goes deeper into the wound: Augustus before the mask broke, Marley before the storm found her, Kiera's final discoveries, The Garden's reach, and the private cost of becoming a symbol in a city that eats symbols alive.

This is not merchandise. This is mythology expanding outward.

◤ Vol. IComic Series

Rain. Ink. Blood.
Panels Like Evidence.

TALON comic series page

The TALON comic series opens the frame wider — turning Rainard City into a graphic crime mythology of rooftops, alleys, vault keys, assassins, bruised faces, and brutal silence.

◤ ManuscriptNovel

Some Wounds
Need Prose.

TALON novel cover artwork
A Novel · Rainard City
TALON
The city kept records. The family kept scars.

A psychological urban-noir thriller about fathers, daughters, masks, murder, and the city that remembers everything.

One City.
One Family.
One Mask.
Too Much History For One Medium.
● The Garden / Roots

Beauty Hides
The Blade.

Roses bloom where bodies were buried. The Garden tends its empire with patience, perfume, and precision.

07/Stills · Frame Archive

Frames From
The Dark.

A selection of stills pulled from the cut. Rain, steel, and the spaces between violence — Rainard, exactly as the camera saw it.

17 Frames Archived2.39 : 1 · MONOCHROME
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07/Transcripts

Things Said Before
The Rain Took Them.

01 / Transcript
"Rain falls as loud and hard as bullets."
— EXT. Rainard City — Night
02 / Transcript
"The armor is still standing. The man inside it is not."
— Aquila's Lair — 03:14
03 / Transcript
"The city does not forgive. It keeps records."
— Rainard PD
04 / Transcript
"A mask can survive what a family cannot."
— Augustus Pembrooke
05 / Transcript
"My mother didn't leave me answers. She left me evidence."
— Marley Pembrooke
06 / Transcript
"The Garden doesn't hide underground. It grows through everything."
— The Gardener
07 / Transcript
"You don't save Rainard City. You survive what it makes of you."
— Thorn
08 / Transcript
"Every surface reflects guilt."
— Talon
08/Final Transmission

Enter
Rainard City.

The storm is already here.

View LookbookOpen DossiersContactWatch Trailer
11/Press Kit

Open The Files.

TALON is being developed as a cinematic universe built from film, fine art, story, and interactive visual worldbuilding.

For pitch conversations, creative review, and production development, access the core materials below.

●Download Lookbook●Download Pitch Deck●View Concept Art●Open Character Dossiers●Contact Team

Materials are for private development and presentation use.