Post Apocalyptic ROCK BOTTOM

GENRE: Post Apocalyptic Industrial Noir (P.A.I.N.) ...and a PAIN it is to get movies made these days! A producer friend of mine likens film making with learning how to strum her new guitar, "down, down, up, down"... indeed.

Ups and downs, fact and fiction, heroes and villains all bubble together to wind out a helluva story.

On the fact front... our fires are being contained. Calm is restored. 4500 hectares still smolder in the blistering sun. 200 heroes are still working, digging, dumping, flying. We are safe...for now.

Jake and Alex's post apocalyptic world may never be safe. "Power loathes a vacuum" and villains and scoundrels rise up after the "Bright Light" to fill the void.

ROCK BOTTOM takes place in 2040 after the Bright Light. Glen and I have imagined what this would be...NOTE: when you're writing, as in real life, all the characters have complex back-stories which we invent; so we know who they are, where they came from, what shaped them...This helps in the writing/directing process to know how that person will react in a situation and why...Because our story takes place in a future world we began with the back story of the times...

BACK STORY: 2010 – 2035. The world was being ruled by super-powers. Those who controlled oil ran the world. Later, it was wars waged for water. Humanity was buckling under over population and need versus supply. Prices for necessities sky rocketed, wages lowered due to competition for jobs. People worked 24/7 just trying to provide for their families. Crime was rampant; the poor trying to survive, the wealthy trying to stay on top...They didn’t have time to fight the world’s injustices being dealt out by the few. As Jake says, "you can't have one self righteous body telling the world what to do without some sort of cataclysmic retaliation".

THE BRIGHT LIGHT 2035 -was an explosion of unimaginable proportions. Wars for water around the globe ended in a new, bigger than nuclear weapon being used and the chain reaction it caused was catastrophic. Whole cities and countries were knocked out. Satellites were downed. Centers where governments ruled from were flattened. Those who survived were not in big cities and had no communication, no transportation. Connecting roads were destroyed. No airplanes or trains. TV, radio and the internet are things of the past. The little surviving cosmos all over the planet were cut off from the rest of the world. The sick, the very young and the elderly in these towns died quickly. Being cut off meant no medical supplies get in or out. Everyone lost someone. This left a society made up of strong bodied but desperate and lonely people. And these are our characters. Welcome to Rock Bottom's world of P.A.I.N.