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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/18/2010 7:13:26 AM PST by Travis McGee
Film Synopsis: In the tranquil suburb of Excalibur Estates, ART, his wife GWEN, and their CHILDREN lead contented lives. Art cajoles with his neighbors,MERL and LANCE, then spends another quiet evening with his close-knit and loving family. They don’t notice news reports about an odd cosmic anomaly – an unusually bright star and a series of impending gamma-ray flares. Despite these strange warnings, Art prepares for another day at work.
At the office, the routines of daily life are interrupted when breaking news broadcasts a government press conference. Authorities describe recent cosmic activity from a type of super-dense star that has released a burst of gamma rays. This massive electromagnetic storm is heading toward Earth and will affect every part of the planet – disrupting electricity grids, cell phones, and every other modern convenience. As the government declares martial law in urban areas, requests to remain calm go unheeded as everyone in Art’s office panics and flees to get back home before the gamma rays cripple the planet’s infrastructure.
Art and Gwen struggle to get through the dangerously gridlocked traffic to reunite at home. When the catastrophe hits, there is little outward effect – the skies light up as the electricity and all communications are disabled indefinitely. Art and his family provide emotional support to one another, wondering what it is that is happening – some sort of end times? No one knows, but they are resolved to stick together as a family and a community.
The residents of Excalibur Estates awake to a very different world. As they survey their neighborhood, they learn that they must survive in a simpler lifestyle than they’d previously enjoyed. Merl, a former military man who has been prepared for such an event, is stocked up with supplies. The neighborhood falls into contentious chaos, conflicts arising particularly from the antisocial MORRIS. Art becomes an unexpected peacemaker as he takes a stand and gives an impassioned speech – imploring his peers to take charge of this situation and band together to turn their community into one that thrives despite this adversity. Art’s leadership inspires the residents of Excalibur to brainstorm, discuss how to manage their resources, and create their own list of rules for maintaining law and order in a world where those systems have disappeared.
The development buzzes with activity as they pool their skills and supplies, create stockpiles of food to be rationed, work out hunting and gardening systems, develop a defensive perimeter. Soon, they’re having fun and bonding in ways they never did when they were reliant on mindless entertainment – now they’re enjoying each other’s company in a more pure way than ever before.
Their peace is disrupted when they find that Morris has been stealing food. According to their rules, Morris is imprisoned. When he tries to escape, his sentence is lengthened. Meanwhile, Art, Lance, and Merl see a box of Red Cross supplies dropped a few miles away. They arm themselves and venture out. They are ambushed by THUGS but manage to escape, now aware that other neighborhoods haven’t fared as well. When Morris is released, he tries to attack Art’s family. Restraining his desire to kill Morris, Art banishes him from the community. The maligned Morris wanders to another town, run by THUGS. He negotiates his own survival by telling them about the wealth of supplies within Excalibur. These lowlifes send spies, which alerts Art, Merl, Lance, and the others to the possibility of attack. As Morris deceptively fuels the flames of hatred, the thugs arm themselves with makeshift weapons and launch a brutal invasion of Excalibur. Residents fight back to defend the prosperity they’ve built with their own blood, sweat, and tears. As the two villages clash, many good people are lost in the bloody, intense suburban war.
Looks good! A common discussion point with my neighbors. I just hope it doesn’t devolve into a lame religious-themed movie like “2012 Doomsday.”
And “One Second After”, but with an EMP from a celestial flare, rather than nukes from an enemy.
looks good...hope the editorializing isn’t too insulting
The trailer might be the best part of the movie. I watched the “clip” on their website called Morris’s Basement. Morris, the evil bad guy of the movie, is a veteran who is a “prepper” or survivalist. He is armed to the teeth and has food for years, so naturally, he is the bad guy. Smells like a PC tilt to me, but we’ll see.
This sounds almost exactly like the online novel “Lights Out” by HalfFast on the AR15 group. I hope he made some money off this. Excalibur = Silver Hills, Art=”Karate Man” Turner, Morris=John, out of town thugs = Davis ranch, gamma ray star = EMP nukes.
Looks great to me! Thanks for posting the link!
The NC State University cap on the woman in the control room piqued my interest so I was watching closely for NC-related things. Then I saw the sign for Trawick Road, which is about an hour from me in Raleigh, NC.
I looked at the homepage of the site after seeing the trailer. This is being filmed in Raleigh and I had not even heard about it!
I can’t wait to see this. Thanks again!
Well, that's where it falls flat on its face, isn't it? You cannot know about "a burst of gamma rays" until it's actually here (i.e., no warning). That's the nature of electromagnetic radiation and what allows us to look into the past by looking at galaxies far, far away...
Thanks for the ping!
I found this thread, and a poster claiming to be the writer of Remnants says that the movie is intended to be a metaphor for what is happening in America today. About how the people who produce and invent have the results of their success taken from them by force.
See post #9 at the following link:
http://www.whenshtf.com/showthread.php?34121-Remnants-Movie
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Well you are assuming this movie is based on current technology...what if they had invented a detection technology at the time of this movie :)
” Morris, the evil bad guy of the movie, is a veteran who is a “prepper” or survivalist. He is armed to the teeth and has food for years, so naturally, he is the bad guy. Smells like a PC tilt to me, but we’ll see. “
A PC tilt?
NAW!!
;-)
Not yet.
This fact alone makes this an interesting sort of threat. That, and the fact that a supernova cooking off within 20-30 light-years away from us does have the potential to cook us pretty good, as in extinct. And like I said, there's absolutely nothing to do for it.
So I think I'll just go and have a beer... $:-)
I wonder what he is cajoling them about. Is their lawn untidy?
Try Man on Fire. It’s a good one.
There are sure a lot of Morris’s out there to be wary of...
Good thing we are prepared...
Based on what I saw at the site, this looks like this was produced using the Canon 5D digital SLR and the Adobe editing/post tools. Things have come so far in that realm that fantastic looking motion pictures can be produced with those tools for a fraction of the costs associated with film. I hope it does well. The story looks interesting.
I just popped the cap off a nice cold bottle of Jever Pilsener.
Cheers!
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