The Dragon King

2026 Official Selection: Screenplay – Screenplay – Feature Film

The Dragon King

A Moorish knight gains immortality after secretly imprisoning three ancient dragons, but becomes the unwilling fuse for a modern dragon apocalypse in the process.

  • Writer(s): Marcus Nel-Jamal Hamm

Language: English

Country: Not Specified

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In 837 AD Sicily, a Moorish knight named Mundir survives a dragon hunt thanks to Strega, a sorceress who binds three dragons into his body, granting him immortality and the hidden power to become the Dragon King—if he can keep the beasts contained. Centuries later in 1984 New York, Nefertiti Jackson—an Egyptian goddess living in human form—awakens from a fractured vision of a dragon apocalypse where Mundir appears to be the cause. Determined to prevent the end of the world,