MEGA MOVIE CONCEPT
World of mega yachts and mega slums
Several hundred years in the future, cheap energy has run dry and topsoil has eroded. The earth cannot sustain 30 billion people at a reasonable standard of living. Cities around world have become violent mega-slums...
But roughly a million elite have escaped to their off-shore mega-yachts where generations have enjoyed a nice lifestyle by exploiting the slums. And they want to keep it that way.
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Concept PaperLogline
In an overpopulated earth of mega slums controlled by a one world United Union government, rebels plot to steal plutonium to power an old submarine in a battle against the off-shore mega yachts that exploit them.
Short Synopsis
500 years in the future establish that a class of people are living a good life on one-kilometer square offshore mega-yachts, exploiting what they need from the mega-slums. They eat in nice cafes, send kids to school in uniforms, and relax at the beach. By night the yachts’ beaches rise to 50 foot walls patrolled by security forces.
Mainland is run by an oppressive one-world “United Union.” Currency on yachts is G-Buck while Yuano is used on land. Primary characters Jake Fields and Sarah Novak live in the slums of Hollywood, assembling a team to steal plutonium. After the team is built they pull off the heist in an open pit mine. On the bus ride back Jake explains that they need to stop at a warehouse to sell some to get the money to pay everyone. When they enter the warehouse the lights go on and military police arrest everyone – expect for Jake and Sarah, who are left in silence staring at each other.
FLASHBACK THREE MONTHS Jake and Sarah are working boxing apples (like wine and other goods, exclusively for the yachts – mainland food is processed seaweed). Jake kicks a box near a door and Sarah fills her pack with them. That evening they are relaxing in Hollywood Hills when the SWAT arrests them.
While chained to wall I jail an old man warns Jake not to accept their offer. Guards arrive “come with us, your trial has concluded.” Jake is told that his five year sentence will be stayed if he will work undercover to expose a gang that is plotting to steal plutonium. Jake and Sarah are thrown from a van in Hollywood with ankle bracelet and handful of G-Bucks.
Transition to yacht, Jake and Sarah dressed nice enjoying café breakfast.
Then final transition Earth-zoom to prison-walled Griffith Observatory where the rest of the gang are chained to walls."