〈DOLPHIN BOY〉（海豚少年）

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This story is accompanied by a film screenplay. It can be produced as a live-action film or an animation. The screenplay production rights fee is USD 500,000. The time setting, locations, and partial plot elements can be modified according to the producer’s requirements.

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Chen Qingyang (Taiwan)

🔥 Logline（核心一句話）

After being stranded on a remote island by a deadly storm, a young fisherman befriends a dolphin and discovers a hidden treasure—only to be caught in a dangerous conflict between pirates, indigenous tribes, and a foreign fleet, forcing him to choose between greed and humanity.

🎯 Synopsis（故事大綱｜好萊塢版）

[Story Outline]

A young fisherman named Chen Dongping from Gulangyu, Xiamen, goes out to sea with his uncle to fish. They encounter a typhoon and are blown by wind and waves to Guishan Island. Their fishing boat is damaged. The uncle, in order to save Dongping and get him ashore, is injured and swept away by huge waves, disappearing without a trace.

Dongping is stranded on Guishan Island. He makes good use of the tools left in the wreckage of the fishing boat to create hanging devices to catch fish and shrimp, and finds a cave beneath a cliff to take shelter.

While exploring the deserted island, Dongping accidentally discovers another cave containing a batch of weapons and several large wooden crates filled with gold bars. However, Dongping does not become greedy because of this discovery. He lights a fire on a high platform on the island, hoping to attract the attention of villagers from Jinbaoli across the sea. Although the smoke signal is noticed by a brother and sister, Guangnan and Yunying, they inform the village elders that someone is stranded on the island. However, the elders say that pirates often appear around Guishan Island and that there is no need to risk danger for this.

Another typhoon arrives. After the storm, Dongping unexpectedly finds a bottlenose dolphin named Lele trapped among the reefs. Dongping helps Lele escape, and they become good friends. At Dongping’s request, Lele carries him across the sea to the opposite shore. There, Dongping meets Guangnan and Yunying, the children of the tribal chief. The siblings warmly invite Dongping to their home, provide him with food, and intend to let him stay. However, their father Yalati refuses, as the Basay group of the Ketagalan tribe is currently under threat from Fusang pirates, and he worries that if the pirates attack, Dongping may become an innocent victim.

After learning of the situation, Dongping recalls the weapons on the island, which might be useful. He makes an agreement with Yalati to deliver the weapons to help fight the pirates. Dongping accidentally lets slip the word “treasure” in front of Guangnan, arousing his suspicion and making him feel that Dongping is hiding something. Guangnan informs his father Yalati, who begins to covet the treasure.

Lele offers a strategy to Dongping. Dongping relays the plan to Yalati, who has come to retrieve the weapons. Yalati is delighted and immediately makes a bold promise: if Dongping can help the Basay defeat the pirates occupying Keelung Islet and reclaim the island and nearby fishing grounds, he will marry his beloved daughter Yunying to him. Dongping treats this promise as a joke and does not take it seriously.

Later, Melissa informs Yunying of the condition set by Yalati. Although Yunying has gotten along very well with Dongping, she believes that her father should not have made such a promise without her consent. She does not want to be treated as a gift, and she resists such a hasty marriage arrangement.

Led by Lele’s dolphin group, the warriors of the Ketagalan villages launch a surprise attack on Keelung Islet under the cover of dense fog at night. They successfully destroy the pirates’ stronghold and capture several leaders. However, during the operation, Lele sacrifices his life while rescuing Dongping, who has been taken hostage by the pirates.

After the operation, Yalati intends to fulfill his promise and bring Dongping back to marry Yunying. However, grieving deeply over Lele’s death, Dongping returns to Guishan Island in sorrow.

After Lele’s death, his younger sister, the dolphin Huanhuan, comes to Guishan Island to accompany Dongping. Dongping regains his smile. Huanhuan carries him out to sea for excursions. While sailing near Keelung Islet, they encounter a Basay fishing boat, whose captain warmly entertains Dongping as a “young hero.”

Meanwhile, a Dutch fleet departs from Tayouan Harbor in southern Taiwan, heading toward Guishan Island. Their goal is to find a batch of gold treasure and weapons left on the island thirty years earlier by a merchant fleet. The staff officer has already learned that the Basay defeated pirates using firearms and explosives, and that a dolphin-riding boy led dolphins to assist them.

Before the Dutch fleet arrives at Guishan Island, Huanhuan quickly informs Dongping and carries him away to Jinbaoli to report the news to Yalati. Yalati convenes a meeting of the four Basay tribal leaders to discuss countermeasures.

The Dutch army occupies Guishan Island and conducts a thorough search, finding both Dongping’s former shelter cave and the treasure cave. However, the weapons and treasure are gone. Peter concludes that the Basay likely used the stolen weapons to defeat the pirates and believes they have taken the gold treasure. He also suspects that the dolphin-riding boy who knows the treasure’s location is being protected by the Basay.

The Dutch fleet then moves into Wanli fishing port and adopts a strategy of “forcing peace through war,” intending to retrieve the treasure through negotiations. In the first meeting, both sides fail to reach agreement. Yalati insists that the Basay only obtained weapons and know nothing about any treasure. Under Peter’s advice, the Dutch commander Alpha demands to search the Basay villages house by house. Yalati agrees, forming an international investigation team with foreign merchants to accompany the Dutch. After extensive searching, nothing is found. However, Alpha remains unwilling to give up and stations his fleet at Guishan Island for a prolonged presence.

Through negotiations, Yalati realizes that the treasure may be extremely valuable and develops evil intentions. He plans to send Dongping, Guangnan, and Yunying to a remote summer cabin to avoid Dutch searches, while secretly persuading Guangnan to murder Dongping and seize the treasure. However, Yunying overhears their conversation. Disgusted by her father’s betrayal, she decides to rescue Dongping.

During the journey to the cabin, Yunying distracts Wula and Guangnan, reveals the plot to Dongping, and the two flee south together. When Wula and Guangnan realize the deception, it is too late to catch them. They return to report to Yalati, who orders them to intercept Dongping and Yunying, believing they are heading toward Kavalan.

Dongping and Yunying arrive in Kavalan. Yunying believes it is not safe to stay. Dongping calls Huanhuan, who carries them back to Guishan Island. Dongping leads Yunying into an underwater cave where the treasure is hidden. There, they confess their love and pledge themselves to each other. Accompanied by Huanhuan, the young couple decides to travel south to settle down and begin a new life.

The young couple came ashore at Huilan, changed their names to Risheng and Yue-niang, and settled down there. On the coastal plains of the area, the Amis people lived scattered. The Amis of Meilun Village were very friendly to this young couple who had come from afar. The chief, Ali, gave them a piece of land to cultivate and build a thatched house.

Risheng taught his Amis friends how to weave fishing nets, build wooden-hulled fishing boats, and fishing techniques, enabling the Amis people to no longer rely on rafts for fishing, and the fish catch rapidly increased. Risheng also taught the Amis people to dig irrigation canals, guiding stream water to irrigate farmland, and to cultivate rice and taro (before this, the Amis people only planted low-yield dry rice and millet), which gradually stabilized and enriched the food supply. Several nearby Amis villages, upon hearing the news, came to Meilun Village to learn from them, and Risheng became a well-known figure throughout the Huilan region. The dolphin Huanhuan often came to the seaside to visit Risheng and Yue-niang. Although life had become busier than before, Risheng and Yue-niang still cherished their friendship with their dolphin companion.

Good times did not last long. One year later, the Amis people in the Huilan region were first struck by a powerful typhoon, and their houses and farmlands were severely damaged. Then, some villagers became infected with smallpox, which quickly spread. Those infected developed blisters on their bodies, and villagers began to die one after another. Risheng had heard elders speak of this terrifying infectious disease. When Ali and several chiefs came to seek his help, he promised to do his best to assist the villagers in suppressing this dreadful epidemic.

Risheng, accompanied by several warriors and a few dolphins, first sailed back to Guishan Island by sailboat. By this time, the Dutch fleet had already left. With the help of Huanhuan and her group of dolphin companions, Risheng entered the underwater cave and retrieved several gold bars. He returned to Huilan and used them to fund the reconstruction of the Amis people’s homes. He then sailed to Xiamen, where he found a Dutch priest named Lister who was skilled in medicine, and persuaded Father Lister to come with him. Father Lister required Risheng to purchase a considerable quantity of medicine to bring aboard the ship. Risheng used the gold bars to procure a batch of medicine.

Father Lister returned with Risheng to Huilan. Through treatment and the promotion of disease prevention, the smallpox epidemic was gradually brought under control. Father Lister established a bond with the Amis people and decided to remain to carry out missionary work. The Amis people voluntarily helped Father Lister build a church.

In gratitude for Risheng’s benevolent deeds and righteous actions, several village chiefs jointly discussed and decided to appoint Risheng as the overall chief of the coastal Amis people. Within a few years, the Huilan region developed into a land of abundance and prosperity, attracting Spanish and Dutch merchants from near and far to come for trade. News was brought back by merchants to Jinbaoli Village. Yalati and his son Guangnan instinctively judged that this great chief named Risheng was very likely Chen Dongping. Yalati instructed Guangnan to take a boat to Huilan to find out the truth.

Guangnan took a merchant sailing ship to Huilan and indeed saw Risheng and Yue-niang, confirming their speculation. Guangnan lingered for several days in Risheng’s (Dongping’s) home and strongly invited the couple to return to Jinbaoli Village. However, Yue-niang (Yunying) still harbored suspicion toward her brother Guangnan and privately reminded Risheng to be wary of him. Risheng, of course, clearly understood Guangnan’s intentions.

Guangnan returned to Jinbaoli Village of the Basay group and truthfully reported everything to his father Yalati. Yalati still held hope for the treasure and devised a malicious plan to kill using another’s hand and intercept midway. He deliberately sent word to Dutch merchants within the region, claiming that the Dutch treasure was hidden in Huilan and controlled by the Amis people, which was why the area had developed so rapidly in recent years.

Afterward, Yalati and his son personally took a boat with several subordinates, disguised themselves as merchants, and came to Huilan, mixing in with the foreign merchants’ lodgings, waiting for an opportunity to capture Dongping and Yunying alive.

This news reached the ears of the Dutch Governor Putmans in Tayouan Harbor. Putmans chose to believe it and dispatched Colonel Weilin with a fleet of two thousand men and twenty cannon-armed warships, advancing in great force to Huilan and anchoring outside the small fishing harbor of Meilun Village.

When the Amis people saw the Dutch arrive in such great force, they felt unprecedented pressure. Weilin sent a messenger to meet Chief Risheng. The messenger directly explained their purpose, demanding that Risheng hand over the gold treasure, otherwise they would attack the Amis villages and raze their homes to the ground. The chiefs of the various villages took a firm stance, willing to go to war with the Dutch fleet to protect Risheng and his wife. However, Risheng did not want to implicate the Amis people. He told Ali that this matter had arisen because of him and decided to face the Dutch army alone.

Father Lister stepped forward to mediate, allowing Commander Weilin and Risheng to reach an agreement: Risheng would accompany Weilin to Guishan Island to retrieve the gold treasure.

On the night before Risheng’s departure, Yalati and his son led their men to sneak into Risheng’s house and abduct Risheng and Yue-niang. This scene was accidentally witnessed by Amida, the young son of Chief Ali. Amida immediately informed his father. Ali led hundreds of warriors to pursue Yalati’s group in several directions, attempting to rescue the couple. Commander Weilin also received notice from Ali and led his fleet northward to block the sea route.

Yalati, by nature cunning, in order to avoid pursuit by the Amis people, ordered his men to disguise themselves as Risheng and Yue-niang to mislead the pursuers. Yalati and his son brought Dongping and his wife onto a small sailing boat and, under the cover of night, hurried northward.

At that moment, inside the cabin, Dongping thought of Huanhuan. Only Huanhuan and her group of dolphin companions could rescue them at this critical moment. Dongping suddenly pretended to be insane, loudly singing and dancing in the cabin. Sure enough, this drew Huanhuan and a group of dolphins. From the singing, the dolphins realized that Dongping and his wife were trapped in the cabin. Huanhuan then directed dozens of dolphins to overturn Yalati’s sailing boat. They immediately lifted Dongping and his wife from the water and escorted them southward across the sea.

In the darkness of the night, only Yalati, Guangnan, and two subordinates remained on the sea, clinging to floating wood, drifting up and down.

(The End)

🌍 Market Positioning

🎯 Target Audience
• Family audience
• Kids & teens (ages 8–16)
• Animation fans
• International streaming platforms (Netflix / Disney+)

🎬 Genre & Tone
• Adventure / Fantasy / Historical
• Coming-of-age story
• Emotional, inspirational, culturally rich

🧭 Comparable Titles
• Moana (ocean adventure + culture)
• How to Train Your Dragon (human–animal companionship)
• The Boy and the Heron (Eastern philosophy + coming-of-age)
• Life of Pi (relationship between humans and nature)

💡 Key Selling Points
✔ A rare “ocean epic animation” theme from Asia
✔ Taiwanese indigenous culture (fresh appeal to the global market)
✔ Emotional bond between humans and animals (the dolphin character has strong market appeal)
✔ Adventure + war + romance (multi-layered narrative)
✔ Expandable IP potential (sequels, series, merchandise)

💰 Commercial Potential
• Can be developed into an international animation IP
• Suitable for dual release: theatrical + streaming platforms
• High licensing value (toys, animation series, educational content)
• Strong appeal in both Asian and global markets

🎯 Tagline
• “A boy. A dolphin. A destiny beyond the sea.”
• “Not all treasures are meant to be taken.”
• “The ocean will choose who you become.”