• The Fall

  • Pete Bridges
  • Set Up
  • Action
  • Sci-Fi
  • Thriller
  • 2016
  • Black List
  • 75.2
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Market: Mon, 13 Jun 2016Sold: Thu, 07 Jul 2016
Executive: Robyn Meisinger
Producer: Adam Kolbrenner, Malcolm D. Lee
Director: Mo Marables
AgentAdam Levine, Adam Weinstein (Verve)
ManagerAdam Kolbrenner (Madhouse)
FinancierAmblin Entertainment
1-2023 - NEW TEAM - Mo Marables attached to direct. Dalton Leeb & Nicholas Jacobson-Larson are rewriting. Malcolm D. Lee attached to produce. 7-2016 - The spec went out before the July 4th holiday, and Amblin started negotiations pre-July 4th weekend.
Finding themselves in the middle of an alien invasion, a newly divorced couple must survive a dangerous real-time journey on foot from downtown Atlanta to the suburbs, where their young children are home alone.
A husband and wife who have just signed divorce papers must band together in the face of an alien invasion in order to save their children.
A recently divorced couple races home to their children amid an alien invasion.
After finalizing their divorce, a couple must work together in the middle of an alien invasion to reach their children.
Film
Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller, Alien, Apocalyptic, Disaster, Mid-life Crisis, Natural Disaster, Dysfunctional Family, Battle, Chase, Creature, Home, Husband/Wife, Journey, Police
108
PG-13
Ultra High
M
Unspecified
40
Average
Cloverfield, World War Z, Super 8, The Fifth Wave, War of Worlds, Date Night.
Present Day. Real time, two hours.
Takes place throughout downtown Atlanta. Mostly streets, shops, banks, hotel lobbies, etc. Sections also take place aboard an alien warship, in a large body of water, and an upper-middle class apartment complex. Dense crowd scenes with hundreds of extras of all genders, races, and ages.
SAM and MEGAN GIRARD (both 40's) legalize their divorce with their ATTORNEY (50's). They are on relatively compatible terms, but still succumb to some of the snippy, complaining behavior that speaks of a marriage gone on too long.

In the elevator, the power cuts out, and Megan discovers that her phone is dead. A technician helps get them out of the elevator and onto the street, Outside, the entire power grid appears to be dead. Cars don't work, cell phones unresponsive, electricity of any kind seemingly gone in an instant. Without navigation systems to guide them, airplanes fall from the sky, and the city erupts in chaos. Strange SHIPS appear overhead, shooting beams of LIGHT that freeze pedestrians in their tracks. Sam, an ex-EMT, notes that the people appear to be alive, but are frozen in some sort of paralytic shock. The Girards decide they need to make it home to their children, SCOTTIE (8) and EMMA (12). Emma suffers from serious anxiety, and has never been left alone until today. Meanwhile, Megan, a diabetic, forgot her insulin, and needs a shot or she will fall into a coma. She and Sam attempt to raid a pharmacy, but the insulin is gone....