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Sherlock Holmes: Hounds of the Baskervilles

Film Treatment: Sherlock Holmes: Hounds of the Baskervilles (2025)
Starring: Joseph C. Jukic as Sherlock Holmes
Paul Joseph Watson as Dr. John Watson
Written by: Joseph C. Jukic
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Runtime: 124 minutes
Genre: Gothic Neo-Noir / Psychological Thriller / Mystery

TAGLINE:

โ€œThe past is not dead. It prowls the moorsโ€ฆ with blood in its teeth.โ€

TONE & STYLE:

A kinetic, sharply edited, and dialogue-heavy modern retelling of the classic Arthur Conan Doyle story โ€” told with Guy Ritchieโ€™s signature whip-pan cinematography, gritty realism, and rapid-fire deduction sequences. Think The Man from U.N.C.L.E. meets True Detective with a splash of Sinister.

SYNOPSIS:

London, 2025.
Sherlock Holmes (Joseph C. Jukic) is no longer the coked-up recluse of old. Heโ€™s a steely-eyed, war-weathered intellectual, haunted by visions of the supernatural, the occult, and things science cannot explain. Haunted by his own PTSD from Balkan peacekeeping missions and MI6 black ops, Holmes has turned his mind toward a chilling mystery rooted in his Celtic bloodline.

Dr. John Watson (Paul Joseph Watson), a disillusioned former military medic and podcasting pundit, is called back to service as Holmesโ€™s field man. The two are reunited by the sudden and mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskervilleโ€”an aristocrat found dead on the fog-covered moors with an expression of pure terror on his face and paw printsโ€”enormous, inhumanโ€”surrounding the body.

A curse, they say.
A demonic hound summoned by the sins of the Baskerville line.
Holmes doesnโ€™t believe in legends. But even he canโ€™t explain whatโ€™s growling outside the cottage at night.

ACT I:

The case is brought to Holmes by the heir to the Baskerville estate, the young and slightly paranoid Sir Henry Baskerville, fresh from Toronto. Holmes suspects a plot involving inheritance, greed, and land development deals with deep implications in the intelligence world. He sends Watson ahead to Baskerville Hall while he โ€œvanishesโ€ into the streets of London to dig into old family archives, war records, and colonial secrets.

ACT II:

Watson uncovers a twisted web of rural folklore, pagan blood sacrifices, and MI5 coverups involving a black ops biological warfare program known as Project Fenrir โ€” based on canine genetics and psionic fear-induction.

The โ€œhoundโ€ is no ghost. Itโ€™s the product of weaponized mythโ€”designed to drive enemies insane on sight.

Meanwhile, Holmes appears unexpectedly in a pub, drunk but precise, whispering clues about the devilโ€™s footprint, Norse symbology, and a family buried with silver daggers.

ACT III:

Holmes and Watson descend into the caverns beneath Baskerville Hall. They discover an abandoned military lab, corrupted by black magic rituals and genetic testing. The villain is Stapleton, a man posing as a friendly naturalistโ€”but actually the bastard son of a forgotten Baskerville, using ancient Nordic rites and science to claim his inheritanceโ€ฆ through terror.

The climax:
A full moon.
A hallucinogenic mist floods the moors.
Watson fends off soldiers gone mad from exposure while Holmes confronts the genetically engineered โ€œhoundโ€ โ€” a monstrous hybrid laced with ancient runes and nanotech.
Holmes destroys it using an explosive silver crucifix left to him by a Vatican contact in Sarajevo.

EPILOGUE:

Back in London, Watson records the experience in a podcast episode titled:
โ€œThe Beast on the Moors: A Warning to Modern Man.โ€
Holmes says nothing. He lights a pipe and stares into a mirrorโ€ฆ where something still howls, far off, in the distance.

DIRECTORโ€™S VISION (Guy Ritchie):

  • Flashback montages in split-screen.
  • Stylized fight scenes โ€” Holmes vs. corrupted soldiers in slow motion with deductive overlays.
  • Brooding color palette: emerald greens and ash greys.
  • Surreal moments questioning Holmesโ€™s sanity: Is the hound real, or a projection of collective fear?

CAMEOS & FEATURES:

  • Bono (as a ghostly bard singing โ€œMoondogโ€ in the pub)
  • Nelly Furtado as the barmaid with an eerie ancestral connection to the curse
  • Michael Caine as Lord Selden, the escaped convict and failed test subject
  • Mark Rylance as Stapleton

THEMES:

  • The weaponization of myth
  • The cost of imperial secrets
  • Fear as a tool of control
  • The death of rationalism in an age of madness
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Operation Storm

MOVIE TITLE: OPERATION STORM
Written by: Joseph C. Jukic
Starring: Mike Jukic, Bruno Jukic, Joe Jukic

GENRE: Techno-thriller / Conspiracy Drama / Historical Sci-fi
TONE: Dark, intellectual, triumphant
SETTING: Post-War Croatia, 1995โ€“1996, with scenes in Yale University, Vatican archives, and underground bunkers

NEW LOGLINE:

Three Canadian brothers of Croatian descentโ€”Mike, Bruno, and Joe Jukicโ€”return to their ancestral homeland after Operation Storm, only to uncover a sinister truth: the endless Balkan wars were engineered by the Skull and Bones secret society as part of an ancient โ€œdivide and conquerโ€ campaign inherited from the Roman Empire. Armed with laptops, folklore, and a deep sense of justice, the brothers launch a revolutionary psyops campaign to crash the Skullโ€™s imperial agenda and bring lasting unity to the Balkans.

TREATMENT:

ACT I: SHADOWS AFTER THE STORM

August 1995. Croatia celebrates its dramatic victory in Operation Oluja (Storm), a sweeping military offensive that reclaimed territory and forced the end of the Serbian occupation.

Into this chaos return Mike, a Canadian Forces veteran and amateur historian, Bruno, a cryptographer with a fascination for ancient codes, and Joe, a rebellious hacker-activist with a sense that โ€œsomething deeperโ€ is happening.

They find their homeland woundedโ€”not just physically, but spiritually. Ethnic tension still festers. Propaganda runs wild. NATO troops keep watch, but the people feel more like subjects than survivors.

Then, in a monasteryโ€™s ruins near Knin, Bruno finds something buried in the stoneโ€”a scroll in Latin. Itโ€™s a lost Vatican document that speaks of a Balkan prophecyโ€”that whoever controls the Balkans, controls the future of global empires. The scroll ends with a chilling symbol: the Skull and Bones.

ACT II: THE TRUE ENEMY

Research leads them to Yale University, where the Skull and Bones society has influenced global power for over a century. Joe uncovers that Bonesmen such as George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton have been orchestrating chaos in Yugoslavia under the guise of diplomacy.

Through leaked CIA cables and Vatican archives, the brothers uncover a chilling plot: the โ€œEmpire Algorithmโ€โ€”a digital model, derived from Roman playbooks, used to fragment cultures, exploit fault lines, and dominate through perpetual conflict.

The Balkans, due to their linguistic, religious, and tribal complexity, are the beta test for global division. The goal: fracture unity, maintain resource control, and experiment with mass trauma programming.

The brothers realize: Operation Storm wasnโ€™t the end of warโ€”it was the beginning of a new phase.

ACT III: OPERATION STORM 2.0

Retreating to a secret base under their great-grandfatherโ€™s abandoned wine cellar, the Jukic brothers mount a digital counter-attack:

  • Mike starts crafting counter-history podcasts, narrated in Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and English, that reveal hidden truths about unity before empire.
  • Bruno decodes a Bones cipher, revealing planned future Balkan destabilizations and NATO false flags.
  • Joe builds an AI psyops engine that floods social media with viral Balkan myths of unity: forgotten saints, pan-Slavic heroes, and tales of brotherhood between enemies.

They dub the operation: โ€œPax Illyrica.โ€ The rebirth of a united, sovereign Balkans free from imperial strings.

ACT IV: THE BONESMEN STRIKE BACK

The Skull and Bones respond.

A CIA-trained ex-Yugoslav general, General Vjeko Reziฤ‡, secretly a Bones initiate, is deployed to stop them. He leads an elite NATO-backed psywar unit called The Red Dogs, tasked with discrediting and destroying the brothers.

The brothers go darkโ€”living off the grid, moving through forests, monasteries, hacker collectives in Sarajevo.

The Red Dogs start assassinating peace activists. Journalists vanish. US Embassy computers in Zagreb go haywire.

In a final gambit, the brothers hack the Empire Algorithm itself, replacing the predictive model with one rooted in Slavic myth, Christian forgiveness, and decentralized sovereignty.

On Orthodox Christmas Eve, their modified algorithm is broadcast through hacked satellites and cellular towers. Millions across the Balkans see the same vision: a deepfake of their national heroes shaking hands and swearing peace.

The people believe. Peace breaks outโ€”not because itโ€™s ordered, but because itโ€™s chosen.

ACT V: THE SKULL IS BROKEN

Back at Yale, the Skull and Bones inner circle watches the Balkans slip from their grasp. One Bonesman whispers, โ€œWe underestimated them. They werenโ€™t tourists. They were revolutionaries.โ€

As Mike, Bruno, and Joe stand atop a rebuilt bridge in Mostarโ€”destroyed in the war but rebuilt by the peopleโ€”they vow to spread the formula globally. Unity through code. Peace through myth. Warfare reversed.

In the final shot, the brothers plant a USB drive beneath a statue of Tito, inscribed:
“Truth is the ultimate weapon.”

EPILOGUE:

Twenty years later, in a new Balkan Confederacy parliament in Sarajevo, children learn about the Jukic Protocol, now used in peace-building AI around the world.

In the shadows of Yale, Skull and Bones initiates read a warning on a hacked screen:
โ€œThe Balkans will never be Rome again.โ€

Fade to black.

THEMES:

  • Decolonizing narrative and memory
  • The real enemy is manipulation of perception
  • Tech as both a tool of tyranny and liberation
  • Reclaiming cultural roots from imperial hands
  • The diaspora as unexpected liberators
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Devilsโ€™ Division

Film Treatment: Devilsโ€™ Division
Written by: Joseph C. Jukic
Starring: Mike Jukic, Joe Jukic, Bruno Jukic, Marko Boskovic
Genre: War Drama / Historical Tragedy
Runtime: Approx. 120 minutes

Logline:

Four Croatian brothers join the Devilsโ€™ Divisionโ€”a notorious volunteer unit fighting alongside Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front. As they march into the Russian inferno of Stalingrad, each man confronts his loyalty, morality, and mortality in a war that devours everything.

TITLE MEANING:

“Devilsโ€™ Division” refers to the 369th Reinforced Croatian Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the “Devilโ€™s Division” by the Germans. Formed in 1941, it was the only non-German unit to serve under the Wehrmachtโ€™s direct command at Stalingrad.

ACT I: THE PLEDGE

Zagreb, 1941 โ€“ The newly formed puppet state of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) allies with Nazi Germany. Four brothersโ€”Ivan (Mike Jukic), a loyal nationalist; Stipe (Joe Jukic), a quiet poet-turned-soldier; Zvonko (Bruno Jukic), a brutal realist; and Petar (Marko Boskovic), an idealistic Catholicโ€”enlist in the 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment, eager to fight communism and prove Croatiaโ€™s strength.

They are sent to boot camp under harsh German officers and Croatian Ustaลกe loyalists. There, they meet Captain Schulz, a cold, calculating Wehrmacht officer who sees them as expendable tools.

In a powerful church scene, the brothers swear loyalty to God, Croatia, and the Axisโ€”each with different motivations.

ACT II: INTO THE ABYSS

Summer 1942 โ€“ Russia

The Devilsโ€™ Division advances through Ukraine, witnessing scorched villages and mass graves. Petar begins to question the morality of their campaign. Stipe writes poems in secret, hiding them in his rifle stock. Ivan remains steadfast, even as Zvonko loots and kills with no remorse.

They cross the Don River into hellfire: the Battle of Stalingrad.

Fighting alongside the German 6th Army, the Croatian unit is sent to Pavlovโ€™s House, Red October factory, and the Volga riverbanks. They are constantly shelled, starved, and surrounded. Frostbite and madness creep in.

ACT III: CRACKS IN THE BROTHERHOOD

As Soviet resistance stiffens, the brothers begin to unravel:

  • Petar saves a Russian child and hides him, violating orders.
  • Zvonko executes a captured partisan woman, fracturing his relationship with Stipe.
  • Ivan receives a letter from home saying the NDH is executing Serbs and Jews in camps like Jasenovac. His patriotic certainty begins to crack.
  • Stipe deserts his post briefly to find a safe place to write. He’s caught and flogged but spared execution when Petar pleads with Captain Schulz.

During a Soviet counterattack, their bunker is overrun. Zvonko sacrifices himself by holding a grenade against an incoming tank. His last words: โ€œWeโ€™re not devilsโ€”weโ€™re meat.โ€

ACT IV: FROZEN GRAVES

Winter 1942โ€“1943 โ€“ The Encirclement

The German lines collapse. Hitler refuses to let the 6th Army retreat. The Devilsโ€™ Division is abandonedโ€”no resupply, no escape.

Petar and Ivan debate desertion. Stipe wants to surrender. Ivan insists they hold the line to the death. A final firefight sees Ivan gunned down, defending a wounded Schulz, still believing in honor.

Petar and Stipe are captured by the Soviets. During a forced march, Petar dies from exhaustion, reciting a prayer as he collapses into the snow.

Stipe, frostbitten and skeletal, survives the gulag. He writes the story of the Devilsโ€™ Division on scraps of bark.

EPILOGUE:

Zagreb, 1990s โ€“ An old man (Stipe) watches Yugoslavia fall apart again. He sits in a church, holding his lost brothersโ€™ dog tags, now tarnished relics. A young Croatian soldier asks if the story of the Devilsโ€™ Division is true.

Stipe replies: โ€œWe were devils, yesโ€ฆ but not by nature. By command.โ€

THEMES:

  • Brotherhood vs ideology: What happens when family loyalty collides with political extremism?
  • Blind patriotism: The cost of following orders under false flags.
  • The dehumanizing nature of war: How men lose their souls in the machinery of history.
  • Faith, guilt, and redemption: Especially for Petar and Stipe, torn between Catholic values and Nazi allegiance.

STYLE & TONE:

A bleak, brutal war film in the spirit of Come and See, Das Boot, and Stalingrad (1993). Realistic handheld combat sequences are contrasted with haunting, quiet momentsโ€”frozen prayers, whispered regrets, the sound of wind over snowy corpses. The score blends Croatian folk laments with dirges of distant artillery.

Tagline:

“They marched to Russia with fire in their hearts. Stalingrad turned them to ash.”