• Love and Monsters FKA Monster Problems

  • Brian Duffield
  • 2012
  • Produced
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • 87.5
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Market: Mon, 18 Jun 2012Sold: Mon, 18 Jun 2012
Director: Shawn Levy
AgentDevra Lieb, Bayard Maybank (Gersh)
ManagerZachary Cox, David Engel, Noah Rosen (Circle of Confusion)
StudioParamount Pictures
Production21 Laps
8-21-2020 - This project is completed. Initially set for a theatrical release, it will now be premium VOD. It stars Dylan O'Brien and was directed by Michael Matthews, with Shawn Levy and 21 Laps producing. 3-2019 - This project is still alive. Per Deadline, Michael Matthews now directing. Shawn Levy producing. Michael Rooker starring.
In a post apocalyptic world filled with monsters and destruction, an un-paired male ventures out of his community and into the wild to locate a single girl he heard about over radio transmission.
Imprisoned but safe from the monster-apocalypse that now plagues Earth, a good-humored and sarcastic young man braves a thirty-mile stretch of monster-ridden hell to meet a girl he is convinced is the last single girl on Earth.
A single, unfulfilled post-teen ventures through a monster-dominated, apocalyptic world to meet the love of his life.
Film
Film, Animated, Character Study, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Epic, Fantasy, Family, Romance, Supernatural, Thriller, Apocalyptic, Futuristic, Monster, Man vs Nature, Natural Disaster, Survival
113
PG
Ultra High
M
White / European
20
Attractive
How to Train Your Dragon, Clash of the Titans, The Odyssey, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Zombieland
The Future/ A Week or So.
INTERIOR: Underground home-base, bedrooms, control room with radio/ radar. EXTERIOR: Corn field, green open plains, thick and lush jungle, rocky bridge over canyon, brook or river, forest/ plant life-covered suburb, moss-covered city, demolished city, abandoned overgrown gas station, roads, liquor store, YMCA with pool, willow trees, marshland, intricate cave habitat, oceanside seashore, mountains
JOEL DAWSON (20) lives in a community in a post-apocalyptic, monster-dominated world. He is one of the few without a mate, but he hears about one—AIMEE (20)—on the transmitter. All he knows is that she has red hair. No one will let him contribute to the well-being of the community, so he decides to set off and find her. East, toward the ocean. She is his future.

Once outside the bunker, he encounters monsters eager to eat him. The first is the SHELOBITCH, a gigantic daddy-long-legs spider. The DACTYL flies in and swoops up Joel. The two monsters fight over him. The Dactyl releases him, and the Shelobitch webs him.

BOY, a stray golden retriever, bites through the webs pinning him. Joel finds a giant FROG in a YMCA pool. The frog helps him escape from a pursuing, hungry RAPTOR, when the frog ingests the raptor. Joel and Boy spend the night in the quarters of Boy's former master, a young girl. They set out the next morning, taking one of the girl's dresses with them.

Someone throws a spear at him. Joel  shoots back with his crossbow and hits CLYDE, a survivor. Joel stitches Clyde's wound and tells him...