About
Nikola is a writer of a number of fine motion-picture screenplays, ambitious and of high quality, most of them packaged & prepared for production. He is a graduate of Slovenian university, the film and theatre academy (AGRFT), where he graduated in film and TV direction.
Screenplays
1. Aleister Crowley’s: "MOONCHILD"©
Screenplay & Shooting Script by Nikola Vrbavac (Therion Aries-Libra) 1984-2009; A Magickal tragi-comedy;
LOG LINE:
Homunculus was to be conjured by magick to possess a human form, to fulfil the ambition of generations of sorcerers and create a man who was more than a man, in a fierce, intensive, but often tragic-comical battle between the Magicians of the White and the Black Lodge, in a secret magical war which develops into no less than a World War.
PITCH:
“Harry Potter” meets “The Lord of the Rings”
Taglines:
I have omnipotence at my commmand, and eternity at my disposal !
For my part, I prefer the Way of the Tao, and to "Do Everything by doing Nothing".
We may suppose a soul to be a real four-dimensional thing, just like the Universe itself.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.
The celebrated Latin poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus has observed, for our edification and behoof, "Festina lente"- Hasten slowly.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Well, my dear, some people, have one brain; some have two. I have two...Oh, I forgot. Some have none.
All this ceremonial is, of course, irrational. But it so happens, young man, that everything on this planet is, ultimately irrational...
Think of the fate of Hannibal and of Napoleon. Always the same story - too much victory !
How could we promulgate the Law of Liberty in a world where freedom has been strangled by oppression in every possible way ?
When those men come back from a few years in the trenches, they'll make short work of the person that informs them of the wickedness of smoking, and eating meat, and drinking beer, and kissing a girl, and reading forbidden novels, and whistling on the Sabbath !
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all...
The clothes don't make the man.
Luckily for England, her soldiers are made of such metal that the thinner the wire is drawn the tougher it becomes.
Everything's a magical phenomenon, in the long run. But war's magic, from the word jump.
An "open order" is like the word "decolletee" used to describe a smart woman's dinner dress...
Psychological facts are facts, General.
I know now... that I must follow that harder path, the Path where he who would advance draws back...
2&3. Aleister Crowley: "THE GREAT BEAST 666"©
Copyright in 1996, A Two-film project, Screenplay & Shooting script by Therion Aries-Libra(Nikola Vrbavac) 199O-2010; A Magickal Biography, Scenario collaborator: Oliver Haddo
LOG LINE OF PART 1:
The aged occultist Aleister Crowley tells two young reporters, John Symonds and Rupert Gleadow, the story of the first half of his life in a boarding house in Hastings in 1947. We follow Aleister twice on his expeditions to the Himalayas, and on his honey-moon with Rose Kelly in Cairo 1904, when he receives the (in)famous “Book of the Law” from a non-terrestrial intelligence called Aiwass, to the Sahara desert where he and his chela, Victor Neuburg, exorcise the arch-demon of the Abyss – Choronzon.
PITCH:
“Lawrence of Arabia” meets “Chemical Wedding”
LOG LINE OF PART 2:
The old Master Therion tells the story of the second part of his life to the two reporters John Symonds and Rupert Gleadow in a boarding house in Hastings in 1947. From the assistance of various Scarlet Woman, to the works with Magical Assistants, we follow the progress of Master Therion to exalted spiritual grades, even to the highest one – that of Ipsissimus, visions of previous incarnations, the historical War against the Black Magician Hitler, and to his own mysterious death.
PITCH:
“Citizen Kane” meets “In Search of the Great Beast 666”
4. CLIFFORD D.SIMAK’S: ”TIME AND AGAIN"
Screenplay by Nikola Vrbavac 1992-2010 Copyright: SIMAX; Science-fiction
LOG LINE:
A long-lost space traveller Asher Sutton returns with an inside alien Symbiotic Abstraction friend “Johnny” inside his head, and a message SF – slanted yet religious in tone. Suddenly arrives a warning from the future, that he will return – and that he must be killed, before he writes the book millions would give their lives fighting for or against its principles.
PITCH:
“Terminator” meets “Terminator 2:Judgment day”
ALTERNATIVE LOG LINE:
Asher Sutton held a book in his hands-a book he was going to write in the future. It would be more controversial than anything ever written-millions would give their lives fighting for or against its principles. But how would he come to write it ? Could he stop himself ? Did he want to ? It made little difference, really: there was a war raging somewhere in the future-and both sides were coming back to make sure Sutton made the right decisions.
5. Tony Banks, Aleister Crowley & Nikola Vrbavac: "AT THE END OF THE WORLD"©
Based on “Genesis” song “One for the Vine”, from the album “Wind and Wuthering” (1977), a (15 min.) mystical anti-war adventure & Aleister Crowley’s “The Heart of the Master"
LOG LINE:
Damien Velden becomes a deserter from an unknown tyrannical army, only to become a military rebel leader himself, and the one who identifies with a deserter soldier from his own army, thus completing the full circle of destiny.
PITCH:
“Platoon” meets “A Farewell to Arms”
6. Ko-Yuen (NIKOLA VRBAVAC): "YI JING"©
A historical spectacle;
LOG LINE:
“Yi Jing” or “The Book of Changes” is a more than 3000 years old Chinese method of divination and prophesy of past, present and future events, based on the observation on Nature and man’s life, the interactions of general laws and individual behaviour, free will and destiny, where Time is an essential factor. The story of the creation of the Book is as interesting: It tells of wise King Ven, who refuses to rebel against the bloodthirsty tyrant Djou Hsin, and is arrested by him, only to devote himself to writing “Yi Jing” in the dungeon. His elder son Den, who swore loyalty to Djou Hsin to bargain for his father’s release, abdicates to the benefit of his younger brother Vu, who had not swore allegiance to the tyrant, and who, after long preparations using “The Book of Changes” finally completes the revolution, defeating Djou Hsin’s army on the battlefield.
PITCH:
“The Last Emperor” meets “Little Buddha”
Autobiography
A SHORT AUTOHAGIOGRAPHY OF NIKOLA VRBAVAC
(THERION ARIES-LIBRA)
-CURRICULUM VITAE-
NIKOLA VRBAVAC WAS BORN ON THE 22-nd OF MARCH 1959 IN LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA (FORMER) YUGOSLAVIA, SON OF A GENERAL.
HE SPENT ONE YEAR OF PRIMARY SCHOOL IN BEDFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, IN THE CRANFIELD COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, WHERE HIS FATHER, A ROCKET-PROPULSION ENGINEER, RECEIVED HIS MASTER'S DEGREE.
THE BOY GRADUATED "OAKWOOD" HIGH SCHOOL IN LOS ANGELES, AS AN “A” EXCHANGE STUDENT OF (ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S) ORGANISATION “AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE” (AFS), WHILE SPENDING THE YEAR 1977-1978 AS A GUEST IN THE HOME OF THE ESTEEMED HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE DIRECTOR JAMES GOLDSTONE AND HIS FAMILY.
UPON HIS RETURN TO FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, SLOVENIA, LJUBLJANA IN 1978, HE IS ACCEPTED INTO THE ACADEMY FOR RADIO, FILM, THEATRE AND TELEVISION (AGRFT), AND STUDIES FILM & TV DIRECTION.
IN THE EIGHTIES OF THE 20-TH CENTURY, THE AUTHOR COMES ACROSS THE WORKS OF MAGICK, GNOSTICISM, YOGA, MYSTICISM AND PSYCHOTRONY OF THE BELGRADE OCCULTIST ŽIVORAD MIHAJLOVIĆ SLAVINSKY, ESPECIALLY WITH THE IMAGE, AND WRITINGS OF THE LEGENDARY ENGLISH MAGICIAN, WRITER AND ADVENTURIST, ALEISTER CROWLEY (1875-1947). IN 1981 HE COMES ACROSS CROWLEY’S NOVEL “MONCHILD” AND “BOOK 4” IN LONDON.
ON NOVEMBER 7-th 1982 HE RECEIVES CROWLEY'S MOST IMPORTANT BOOK, “THE BOOK OF THE LAW” (TECHNICALY ENTITLED “LIBER AL VEL LEGIS”), AND BECOMES THE FIRST PERSON IN YUGOSLAVIA TO TRANSLATE IT INTO THE SLOVENIAN LANGUAGE, HIMSELF BECOMING AN ACOLYTE OF THE GREAT MASTER OF THE “HIDDEN SCIENCES”, OCCULTISM, A STUDENT OF -TO MEGA THERION-ALEISTER CROWLEY.
CROWLEY’S DREAM, THAT “THE GNOSTIC MASS” SHOULD BE PERFORMED AND SHOT IN A STUDIO WAS REALISED WITH THE HELP OF SLOVENIAN O.T.O. (IN 1992), LED BY OLIVER HADDO (LEGRADIČ), ONE OF N.V’S BEST FRIENDS AND RIGHT-HAND MAN, AND THE MENTHORSHIP OF THE FILM ACADEMY. ALTHOUGH THE UNIVERSITY ACCEPTED IT AS HIS IV-TH YEAR EXAM, THE STATE-CONTROLLED TELEVISION REFUSES TO SHOW IT ON THE PROGRAMME. HE CONCENTRATES ON WRITING AN OPUS OF FILM PROJECTS.
IN THE YEAR 1988 E.V., HE WAS OFFICIALY INITIATED AS A MINERVAL INTO THE ORDER OF THE (ORIENTAL) TEMPLAR KNIGHTS (O.T.O.)-ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS. IN 1989 HE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE HEAD OF THE TEMPLAR ORDER FRATER SUPERIOR HYMENAEUS BETA GRANTING HIM THE USE OF “LIBER AL VEL LEGIS”, “HEART OF THE MASTER” IN “AT THE END OF THE WORLD”SCENARIO AND ENABLING HIM TO CONTINUE WITH THE “MOONCHILD” PROJECT.
SPENDING A FEW YEARS (1988-1990) GATHERING PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE AS A FILM ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ON VARIOUS MOVIE AND TV PROJECTS OF THE SLOVENIAN DIRECTOR BOŽO ŠPRAJC, THE AUTHOR CONTINUES WRITING A NUMBER OF MOTION-PICTURE SCENARIOS, THE FIRST BEING ALEISTER CROWLEY’S “MOONCHILD” (1981-2009). THE MANAGER OF THE LARGEST SLOVENE FILM COMPANY, VIBA FILM, MR. FRANC DEJAK, SEES VALUE IN THE YOUNG MAN’S SCRIPT PROJECTS, AND FINANCES HIS WORK IN (1992-1993). THE ONLY DOCTOR OF FILM IN SLOVENIA, DR. IGOR KORŠIČ, PROFESSOR OF FILM THEORY AND HISTORY AT LJUBLJANA’S FILM ACADEMY, AND THE SLOVENIAN DIRECTOR FRANCI SLAK ARE HIRED BY VIBA FILM STUDIO IN THE CREATION OF THE SCREENPLAY “THE CRIMSON KING”.
INSPIRED BY AN INFRARED INTERGALACTIC PHOTOGRAPH (PUBLISHED IN THE “GALAXY” MAGAZINE IN THE 70-ES) OF THE M-16 (NGC 6611) EAGLE NEBULA DISCOVERY IN THE SERPENT STAR-SYSTEM, (WHICH HE HAS IN POSESSION SINCE APPROXIMATELY 1975), THE AUTHOR FULLY REALIZES IN 1991 - THAT THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF “GOD” IN COSMOS HIMSELF, THE CREATOR OF STARS - A THEORY WHICH HE AFTERWARDS PROVES IN THE LANGUAGE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN SCIENCE (1994-2011). IN 1994 THE AUTHOR BEGINS WRITING “LIBER UNIVERSAL” - »THEORY OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IN THE UNIVERSE« AND REGISTERS IT. IN NOVEMBER 1994, WHILE WORKING ON THE MAGICKAL SHEMHAMPHORASH MAP OF COSMOS, ASTROLOGICAL MAP, THE AUTHOR DISCOVERS THE AXIS OF THE UNIVERSE (OF WHICH DETAILS ARE EXPLAINED IN THE “LIBER UNIVERSAL”).
IN 1997 THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN RECOGNIZES HIS SCENARIO “MOONCHILD” TO BE A WORK OF CROWLEYANA, LISTING IT WITH CROWLEY'S CLASSICS OF THELEMA.
IN 2010 HE COMPLETES HIS 20-YEAR WORK ON A DOUBLE-FEATURE SCENARIO ABOUT CROWLEY’S LIFE “THE GREAT BEAST 666”. ALSO HE ESTABLISHES CONTACT WITH THE ENGLISH ACTOR THOMAS BEWLEY (WHO PLAYED THE AGED ALEISTER CROWLEY IN ROBERT GAROFALO'S 2007 DOCUMENTARY »IN SEARCH OF THE GREAT BEAST 666« WITH »RELISH«). IN 2012 HE FINALY COMPLETES HIS UNIVERSITY DIPLOMA WORK ENTITLED »TRANSCENDENTAL FILM« (MENTHOR DR.IGOR KORŠIČ).
HE PROCEEDS WITH “OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH”, ADVANCING WITH THE PRODUCTION OF HIS MOTION-PICTURE PROJECTS, A SHORT SLOVENIAN ANTI-WAR FILM “AT THE END OF THE WORLD” (“NA KONCU SVETA”) AND ESPECIALY ALEISTER CROWLEY’S “MOONCHILD”, WITH THE HELP AND ADVICE OF HIS LOS ANGELES FRIEND PETER RAFELSON (SON OF LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR BOB RAFELSON).
Contact
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