The Challenger: Short Film
Detective Rick Sledge of the LAPD has become a vigilante known as 'The Challenger.' In 2001, Jason Sledge, a LAPD detective and Rick Sledges father, was murdered by a Mercenary known as Lucas Wolf. Antonio Ricci, head of the mafia hired Wolf to kill him because he had enough evidence to put the entire Mafia behind bars. A year later, a young Rick Sledge proposed to his girlfriend and they were engaged to be married. Then things changed, Sledge heard from one of his friends who joined the army that Lucas Wolf was spotted in Iraq. With this news and his drive for revenge, Sledge joined the army. He became a Green Beret. His time at war was in 2003 in Iraq. 'He found Wolf and defeated him and left him for dead. When he got back to Los Angeles, he became a detective that played by the rules until one day a former mercenary known as Lucas Wolf retuned and killed his ex-partner and his fiancé. That's when he became 'The Challenger.' As 'The Challenger,' has no rules, no limits; his goal is to give the criminals what they deserve. In some cases it means death.
