The world's most clandestine private school, tasked with grooming America's next generation of spies and assassins, finds its newest star pupil - 12-year-old prodigy Simon Fleck - and quickly come to regret it.

SYNOPSIS:

Imagine if you could meet James Bond long before he earned his license to kill. Or meet the creative mastermind of Q-Branch long before he designed any high-tech surveillance or assassination tools. I’m talking decades prior — when 007 and Q were still in puberty!

Therein lies the premise for The School, a smart and edgy thrill-ride centered around America’s top-secret training facility for its next generation of intelligence operatives. Think "American Assassin" meets "Alias" meets "Ender’s Game," with a touch of The Americans thrown in for good measure.

Inspired by a true story, most notably the CIA’s hide-in-plain-sight Mentally Gifted Minors Program (a division of the infamous MK Ultra, the Vietnam-era secret mind control scheme conceptualized by “Mad Scientist” Sidney Gottlieb), MGM’s sole purpose was to identify the nation’s brightest young minds, then recruit and groom them to be spies and spy craft engineers.

When it comes to global supremacy, intelligence is everything. Screw revenue and resources, the real difference between Third World Nations and Superpowers is intelligence they can gather, from enemies and allies alike. Wars have been won (and lost) because of intelligence — or the lack of it.

The monumental task of intelligence gathering falls squarely on the shoulders of cloak & dagger operatives who have, as Liam Neeson so aptly put it, “a very particular set of skills.” They are routinely called upon to do the dirty work — the shit you DON’T want to hear about on the evening news. If those operatives succeed, their country remains atop the world power food chain. But if they fail, their country pays the ultimate price.

In that respect, The School represents the future of America as we know it. And that future looks especially bright courtesy of their newest recruit...

12-year-old Simon Fleck.

With the kind of knowledge and intellect that makes Albert Einstein seem like a dolt in comparison, Simon Fleck is a once-in-a-generation find — a child prodigy with unlimited potential. But Simon also has a dark side, a fascination with combat tactics and weaponry, and what appears to be the wherewithal to use them. This so-called “dark genius” makes him both revered and feared by The School’s students and faculty, alike.

Simon is the outlier they were hoping to find. But as they slowly discover the true depths of his genius, they’re reminded of the old adage: "Be careful what you ask for, because you might just get it."

THE SCHOOL