Genre
Female MMA action, sports drama, and romance.
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PROJECT SLATE 01 / 03
ODD EYED
Female MMA Action · Sports Drama · Romance
Phase 2 · USD 6MLA · Seoul · DohaScreenplay CompletedLead Package Ready
ODD EYEDFemale MMA · Action · Doha Fight WeekLA · SEOUL · DOHA
Writer / Lead
Jiseung Cho — screenplay completed and lead casting package prepared.
Phase 1 Target
Fight week mood content, desert training, teaser, and pilot materials.
SYNOPSIS
A fighter story about pain, ambition, love, and proof.
In LA Koreatown, Margo survives as a stunt actor while moving from audition to audition. In an MMA fight, she discovers something real for the first time: she can take the hit and still choose herself. After three UFC attempts, a dangerous love with Sunny — a coach whose eyesight is failing — pushes Margo into a new level of ambition.
As Margo grows, the spotlight of Doha global fight week turns toward her. Her team fractures, loyalty collapses, and love begins to collide with the hunger to win. Holding a championship belt, Margo is forced to ask what she was really trying to prove.
WHY NOW
Sports action travels fast.
- MMA is one of the fastest-growing global sports categories.
- Doha and the Gulf region can become the dramatic turning point where a local fighter becomes a global icon.
- An Asian female MMA lead is a rare global genre position.
- The project sits in the lineage of Creed, Whiplash, and Million Dollar Baby while adding Asian diaspora identity and Doha-scale spectacle.
- The world has room for spin-offs around Hailey, Lisa, Mickey, Sunny, and the wider fight team.