EP. 1782: Screenwriter Russell Babcock (THE MEMORY TAX & THE HOLMES ENIGMA)

WILDsound: The Film Podcast · May 18, 2026

Watch the Best Scene of THE MEMORY TAX:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLcReloL8k

A 14-year-old girl with an experimental neural implant can access the entirety of human knowledge with her mind, but every ‘download’ costs her a piece of her past. While hiding in plain sight from the shadowy corporation that created her, she must decide how much of herself she is willing to forget to save the people she loves.

Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

I would clarify that The Memory Tax is actually written as a one-hour television pilot, although I believe the concept is cinematic…