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Gateway: the City’s Reason is a poli-sci-fi television drama. The series is set in a near future where our children live prosperously on a healthy planet. The story is not utopian or dystopian. There are still crime and passion. Baseball and apple pie. A delicate balance between progress and conservation exists. There is struggle and there is wonder… but for all of this, there was a price. There is always a price.

There are a number of science fiction series currently using St. Louis as a backdrop. We love to see St. Louis as the setting for fiction, television and movies. But at Gateway the arch still stands and the lights stay on. There are no aliens and no zombies and no Gateway.TCR video game (yet). This is not another story set in a post-apocalypse.

At Gateway, we’re wondering what if our best days are right around the corner, well within our reach—if we decide to reach. Each episode of Gateway will focus on a different facet of the Gateway city and how its citizens deal with (and dealt with) the change necessary to heal the planet, bring economic opportunity to all citizens and create a future more like Roddenberry’s Star Trek than Huxley’s Brave New World.

What if a group of heroes was able to change the current game (our current state of affairs) for the good of the game and used the rules of the game to do it?

What if they set into motion a more sustainable world – communities that meet the current needs of their citizens without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs?

What would life be like in a sustainable city? In a sustainable world?

What price had to be paid in 2013 and what price must be paid in 2063?

Follow Hamilton, the historian and teacher who is drawn into an understanding of history that brings danger to him, his friends and the whole city;

Adams, the restless detective who is assigned to solve a series of murders tied to his friend Hamilton;

Eve, the CEO of PeopleCorp, who is determined to make it the centerpiece of the new economy;

the Woman from the River, who shape shifts in and out of Hamilton’s life;

the Mayor, who keeps the city working and manages to work on many things beyond that;

the Senator, with ambitions beyond even national office;

and Wesson, a man who closely observes the workings of the city at the request of someone, or something, beyond the city’s limits.

Gateway: the City’s Reason is about an American city, its neighborhoods, its suburbs and the countryside surrounding it. Its stories will explore the basic reasons we agree to come together to live in a place. And it offers a vision of how we as individuals – right now – can shape the institutions that make up the places in which we and our children will live.

Stories, film and television help people bridge the gap between what is now and what is possible. Gateway: the City’s Reason envisions a future where we live more intelligently with the earth and with each other. We think it’s time for some American optimism that touches everyone.

Why St. Louis? Mostly because it is where the creators live.  But also because of its beauty and its flaws. Because of its decay and its promise. Because of its great baseball and good beer. Gateway could be any city and perhaps one day it will be any city. St. Louis has been called the Gateway to the West, the jumping off point for pioneers. We’re asking, why not one of the Gateways to the future?

A team of writers, art directors, artists, designers and Web developers from the St. Louis region have come together to donate their time and talent to the project. Actors, directors and production crews from St. Louis are donating their time and talent to produce the pilot episode of the series – or are working at cost.

The series pilot will be completed in the summer of 2013 and will be distributed via web streaming channels. We are also exploring the possibility of local broadcast in the St. Louis region.

We will be using crowd-sourcing tools to reach out for ideas and support. We hope you will become part this conversation and we hope it turns into a story with many chapters. PLEASE SIGN UP TO BE ON OUR MAILING LIST. Thanks for your ideas and support. And thanks for wondering: What if? And why not?