ABADDON — the destroyer
Wade
Nora
Cain
Angel
Solomon Cross

A Supernatural Thriller — Written by Neil Kellen

ABADDON

"Every angel is terrifying." — Rainer Maria Rilke

WADE NORA CAIN ANGEL CROSS

A man whose family was burned alive on the orders of a powerful crime lord carries something inside him that has been waiting for the chance to finish what grief started — the biblical destroyer, Abaddon. His guardian angel is running out of time to keep him human.

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ABADDON — the destroyer, the red face

"Something is coming for him. He can feel it the way old buildings feel weather — in the foundation, before the sky changes."

ABADDON — Draft 53

The Story

THE MAN.
THE ANGEL.
THE DESTROYER.

When Cain was eight years old, his family was burned alive. The man who ordered it — Solomon Cross, a crime lord who has spent forty years beyond the reach of consequence — sent a boy named Wade to do it. Cain survived because something pulled him from the fire. That something was Angel.

Cain grew up. The demon grew with him. Abaddon — the angel of the bottomless pit from Revelation 9:11 — has been living inside him since the night of the fire, quiet for years, feeding on grief. Now Cain is hunting Cross, and with every step closer, the demon rises. Angel is watching. Trying to keep the man she saved from becoming the thing she fears.

Meanwhile, Wade — older now, carrying what he did — and the hunter Nora track the same trail from a different angle. And Cross, who has never once been made to answer for anything, is about to discover the boy he had burned alive did not stay buried.

ABADDON is built in the DNA of Se7en, The Crow, and Constantine — dark enough to earn its mythology, grounded enough to hurt when it needs to.

Abaddon — Revelation 9:11

"They had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon." — The destroyer. Something older than the war in heaven, that was here before and will be here after.

Cain — the man carrying the destroyer

Cain — the man and what lives inside him.

Comparable Films

Se7en · The Crow · Constantine · Daredevil (Netflix) · Fallen · The Prophecy · Preacher · Midnight Mass · Angel

The Leads

THE PEOPLE
IN THE DARK

Cain — the protagonist
CAIN
The Protagonist · The Vessel
His family was murdered when he was eight. He survived because Angel pulled him from the fire. He's been carrying Abaddon ever since — a demon that grows stronger as he gets closer to the man who ordered the killing. He is hunting Solomon Cross. The demon is letting him, for now.
Angel — the guardian
ANGEL
The Guardian · The Ancient
She was in the hallway the night of the fire. She pulled the boy out. She has been watching him since — an angel in the most literal sense. Ancient. Patient. Carrying Enochian script on her bracers and something in her eyes that belongs to no language this world speaks. She is trying to keep him human. She is running out of time.
Nora — the hunter
NORA
The Hunter · The Marked
A burn scar runs the inside of her forearm — old, luminous in moments of intensity. She moves through this world with an ease that makes people uneasy. She is tracking Cain from a different angle than Angel. She works with Wade. She heals with her touch. What she is costs her something, and she pays it without ceremony.
Angel — the sword, the light

"It matters to me."

Angel — ABADDON, Draft 53

Supporting Cast

THE OTHERS
WHO SHAPED IT

Solomon Cross — the villain
SOLOMON CROSS
The Villain · The Untouchable
A crime lord who has made life-and-death decisions for forty years and has never once been made to answer for them. He ordered the murder of Cain's family. He has photographs of his daughter and the man he had killed, and he has never been able to throw either one away. Something is coming for him. He can feel it in the foundation.
Wade — the arsonist, the haunted
WADE
The Arsonist · The Haunted
He was seventeen when Cross sent him to the house. He lit the fire. Angel marked him before he reached the street — a scar on his palm he has never been able to explain and never been able to forget. He is older now. He works with Nora, tracking what's coming. He carries a crayon drawing he didn't make in his jacket pocket. He never puts it down.
Fisk — Cross's enforcer
FISK
The Enforcer · The Witness
Cross's right hand. A wall of a man with flat, patient eyes. He was there the night of the fire — arrived after Wade ran, watched Angel walk out of a burning building carrying an eight-year-old boy, and went to his knees in the wet grass with a scar on his palm and no explanation. He has been carrying that night ever since. He does his job. He doesn't look for what it means.
ABADDON — the destroyer, red and shadow

The Destroyer

ABADDON

Not a metaphor. The angel of the bottomless pit from Revelation 9:11, present inside a man who has been feeding him grief for years. When Cain loses control, the eyes go white. Completely, flatly white. What comes through is not Cain anymore. It doesn't arrive. It simply becomes visible.

The Surrender

The darkest beat in the screenplay: Cain surrenders to Abaddon deliberately. He knows what comes through when he opens the door. He opens it anyway. That is the tragedy at the center of the story — not a man who lost control, but a man who chose to.

Angel vs. Nora — In Motion

The Mythology

GRIEF.
THE MARK.
THE DEMON.

Angel marks people with a brand from her touch — a silver-white scar on the palm, old-looking from the moment it appears, like something that has been there for years. Wade carries one. Fisk carries one. They have never compared notes. They don't need to. The mark has its own gravity.

Abaddon has been inside Cain since the night of the fire. He has been patient. Grief is the oldest fuel, and Cain has been burning on it for decades. The closer Cain gets to Cross, the less of himself remains. Angel is trying to pull him back from the edge. The edge keeps moving.

ABADDON uses Biblical mythology not as decoration but as structure. Every supernatural element has a theological anchor. The horror is earned. The dread is ancient.

Revelation 9:11

"They had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon." The screenplay uses this not as a title reference but as a structural fact. The entity is real. It is here. It has been here.

Fisk — the enforcer

Fisk — Cross's instrument. He has been carrying the night of the fire for years.

Status & Credentials

WHERE IT
STANDS NOW

9/10
Black List Rating
Hosted on the Black List. Two paid evaluations pending. Top tier of unproduced screenplays on the platform.
53
Current Draft
154 pages. Three years of development. Every pass has sharpened the mythology and structure.
WGA
Registered
Writers Guild of America registered. Chain of title is clean and straightforward.
BFB
Big Break Submitted
Final Draft Big Break — submitted before the April 2026 early bird deadline. Results pending.

About the Writer

Neil Kellen is a broadcast producer with 25+ years of experience, an Emmy nomination (Never Forget Never Again), and two award-winning short films (Elysian, A Wedding Like That). Creator of Cinestyle Studio. Founder of Cinestyle Media. ABADDON is his first feature-length screenplay. Henderson, Kentucky.

Rights & Representation
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TALK.
ABADDON is available for option, production consideration, co-production, and literary representation inquiry. Script available upon request. Neil is responsive and serious about getting this made.
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