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It's the End of Liz As We Know It
- Jennifer Harrington
- Set Up
- Action
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- 2020
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Market: Mon, 27 Jan 2020Sold: Wed, 29 Jan 2020
Producer: Jake Kasdan, Melvin Mar
Director: Jake Kasdan
ManagerGreg Walter, Stacey Lubliner (3 Arts Entertainment)
StudioSony
ProductionThe Detective Agency
1-29-2020 - As per THR—On the market 1/27/2020. Sold for 6 figures 1/29/2020. Sony picked up this project in a heated bidding war with Kasdan attached to direct.
Producer: Jake Kasdan, Melvin Mar
Director: Jake Kasdan
ManagerGreg Walter, Stacey Lubliner (3 Arts Entertainment)
StudioSony
ProductionThe Detective Agency
1-29-2020 - As per THR—On the market 1/27/2020. Sold for 6 figures 1/29/2020. Sony picked up this project in a heated bidding war with Kasdan attached to direct.
Story details are currently being kept under wraps but described as a high-concept sci-fi action comedy.
On New Year’s Eve, the world is given a prediction that a college drop-out will destroy the world in 6 hours. Liz uses her final hours to avoid being killed and find a way to stop the end of humanity.
When a college dropout who works at Applebees gets predicted to be the one to end the world by the future-telling device, she has to survive from people wanting to kill her and find a way to reverse the prediction.
Film
Female Protagonist, Sci-fi, Apocalyptic, Cop/FBI/CIA, Dark, Murder, Rescue, Zombie, Dark Comedy, Time Travel, Survival, Betrayal, Chase, CIA, Death, Education, Father/Daughter, Female, Journey, Media, Mother/Daughter, Outsider, Suspenseful, Technology, Violence/Violent
113
PG-13
High
F
White / European
21
Attractive
"Minority Report" (2002)
"The Butterfly Effect" (2004)
Present / 1 day
New Jersey - Applebees kitchen, restaurant floor
New York City, NY - Science Lab / street / studio apartment / honda / toyota prius / panda express parking lot / police car / two-story house / forest / tercel car / underground tunnel / trailer / black SUV / suburban strip mall / office / county fair / structurally damaged abandoned mall.
Los Angeles - pool.
London - pub.
Tokyo - home kitchen.
LIZ HAUSER (21) works at Applebees. The customers and staff all watch the news report the Chrysalis prediction. It says that the world will end at 12:01 am and that Liz Hauser will cause it. She tries to convince them, but everyone attacks her with knives. Her boss MR.GROSSMAN (adult) is killed with a fake sword trying to defend her.
She escapes in her car and is rammed down by a soccer mom in her minivan. Liz calls her parents for help, just to hear her dad yell over the mom that the neighbors are there to kill her. She drives to her best friends house but is attacked by the police along the way. She ditches her car and runs.
Liz gets to the house and NIKKI POWERS (21) answers the door. The house is filled with college students Who've just celebrated New Years. They stare her down, trying to figure out why she wants to destroy the world. Nikki gives Liz pain medicine and tries to convince her to kill herself. Liz refuses and they fight over Nikkis gun Nikki tries to shoot but it's jammed. She looks inside the gun and shoots herself. Liz escapes through the window with...
She escapes in her car and is rammed down by a soccer mom in her minivan. Liz calls her parents for help, just to hear her dad yell over the mom that the neighbors are there to kill her. She drives to her best friends house but is attacked by the police along the way. She ditches her car and runs.
Liz gets to the house and NIKKI POWERS (21) answers the door. The house is filled with college students Who've just celebrated New Years. They stare her down, trying to figure out why she wants to destroy the world. Nikki gives Liz pain medicine and tries to convince her to kill herself. Liz refuses and they fight over Nikkis gun Nikki tries to shoot but it's jammed. She looks inside the gun and shoots herself. Liz escapes through the window with...