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The Cascade
- Kieran Fitzgerald
- Set Up
- 2014
- Black List
- 83.6
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Market: Mon, 15 Dec 2014Sold: Mon, 15 Dec 2014
Executive: Kira Goldberg
Producer: Ridley Scott, Steven Zaillian, Garrett Basch, Elishia Holmes
Actor: Michael Schaefer, Cate Blanchett
AgentRyan Feldman, Stuart Manashil (WME)
StudioFox
ProductionFilm Rites, Scott Free
Executive: Kira Goldberg
Producer: Ridley Scott, Steven Zaillian, Garrett Basch, Elishia Holmes
Actor: Michael Schaefer, Cate Blanchett
AgentRyan Feldman, Stuart Manashil (WME)
StudioFox
ProductionFilm Rites, Scott Free
Based on the documentary style film “The Day Britain Stopped” directed by Gabriel Range, an oil tanker collides with an Iranian patrol boat in the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a chain of tragic disastrous events.
A supertanker captain must evade capture and plead her innocence after the U.S. frames her ship's accidental crash as an act of war by Iran, labeling her a terrorist.
A ship accident in the Strait of Hormuz unleashes a worldwide petroleum crisis, leading the US to the brink of war, while the captain of the American supertanker that was hit must convince her own government that she is not an Iranian spy.
An American commercial ship captain is framed as a terrorist by the government after her ship causes an oil spill in the Strait of Hormuz. She then must prevent a declaration of war on Iran while trying to prove her innocence.
Film
Film, Female Protagonist, Action, Drama, Thriller, War, Conspiracy, Hostage, Dark, Disaster, Farce, Prison, Political, Rescue, Terrorist, Philosophical, Tragedy, Travel, Adaptation, Military, Foreign Locale, Social Commentary, Accident, Affair, Agent, Boat/Ship, Economy, Escape, Female, Husband/Wife, Investigation, Journey, Love, Sea, Secrets, Soldier, Violence/Violent
117
R
Ultra High
F
Unspecified
39
Attractive
Children of Men, World War Z, The Butterfly Effect, Babel, Contagion
Near future/Two weeks
UAE, various military bases, Cleveland, Chicago, Pennsylvania, rural house, steakhouse, underground bunker, gas station, Chunnel, London, Scotland Yard, apartment, US Embassy in London/UAE, supertanker, wooden boat, ocean/Strait of Hormuz, Oman, Palace of Nations in Geneva, holding cells, interrogation rooms, submarine.
A fire breaks out on the USS Samson, an enormous supertanker in the Strait of Hormuz after an Iranian patrol ship mistakenly crashes into it in the dense fog. The strait is blocked as a result, and the world’s oil cannot leave for export, beginning a descent into global chaos.
VERA AIKEN (39), the captain of the Samson, is taken to be investigated in an air base. She watches news coverage of the crash and the markets in shock, when JOEL (34), a military contractor, states that her rights have been suspended.
Meanwhile, Vera’s husband, ROBERT (44), watches the news from a contraction site he is supervising in Beijing. He speaks on the phone with TERRY (43), head of Private Contract Management for the Defense Department, and asks if Vera was on board the Samson. He says she wasn’t, with the news showing another captain, JIM CONNOLLY (38), supposedly captaining the ship at the time of the crash, and Robert goes underground to supervise the site.
Vera explains the moments leading up to the crash. Jim’s wife just had a baby, so she volunteered to take over for him on the Samson secretly. Joel asks her about a woman named Ashi,...
VERA AIKEN (39), the captain of the Samson, is taken to be investigated in an air base. She watches news coverage of the crash and the markets in shock, when JOEL (34), a military contractor, states that her rights have been suspended.
Meanwhile, Vera’s husband, ROBERT (44), watches the news from a contraction site he is supervising in Beijing. He speaks on the phone with TERRY (43), head of Private Contract Management for the Defense Department, and asks if Vera was on board the Samson. He says she wasn’t, with the news showing another captain, JIM CONNOLLY (38), supposedly captaining the ship at the time of the crash, and Robert goes underground to supervise the site.
Vera explains the moments leading up to the crash. Jim’s wife just had a baby, so she volunteered to take over for him on the Samson secretly. Joel asks her about a woman named Ashi,...