IMPERVOS ONE
Eccentric billionaire, convinced that nuclear war is imminent, locks his family and workers into a subterranean luxury bunker. But his builders released a life form living underground for 280 milion years to hunt the humans.
McHenry now has intelligence that nuclear war with Russia is imminent. He takes his wife ELLIE, his two daughters MELISSA, 22, and ANNIE, 16, and a team of professiionals to ground in the super-shelter IMPERVOS ONE.
Protected by a steel superstructure hardened with tungsten, carbon and titanium, residents can live in luxury for more than a decade with every amenity. Multi-redundant generators supply power. The bunker is biologically self-sustaining, with a state-of-the-art infirmary etc.
OPEN ON UNDERGROUND TUNNEL CONTROL CENTER:
Chief engineer Lance WRIGHT, 28, and two others designed a system that delivers unlimited water from a Mesozoic era aquifer. After tense moments, a fountain of pure water bubbles up. The engineers throw their hardhats in the air, plunge their faces into the water and drink.
Later, they leave to collect their paychecks and return to the world. They think Craig is crazy, but they’ll take his money.
CLOSE ON a drop of water: Something seems to be wriggling in it. As the engineers leave, a TINY COLORLESS LIFE FORM follows them into the main bunker.
The engineers are angry: Craig refuses to let them out. During an initiation ceremony that night, he explains that he chose them to survive the coming nuclear ruin and begin a new civilization. When Lance challenges him, Craig has him incarcerated.
Melissa sneaks down to be with him as romance blossoms.
Meanwhile, the CREATURES locate the food supplies and gorge.
TIME PASSING Melissa, opens the door of her luxurious bedroom and hears scratching at a closed hallway door, swipes her hand and it opens. A MONSTER confronts her with an arsenal of teeth. Melissa screams, backs out, slams the door and flees.
Lance and the engineers make their way through the underground tunnel to the control room. The creatures have disabled the elevator and power system.
When they open the passage to the tunnel, they confront a monster. After an extended fight, it kills and consumes an engineer.
Lance realizes that the aquifer contained creatures from the super-continent Pangaea. During the Permian Extinction, they took refuge underground and evolved to survive while 90% of earth’s animals went extinct. They rely on “blindsight” as light-reactive proteins cover their skin, turning the whole body into a compound eye.
Craig McHenry gathers his family and workers in a "keep" as a last refuge against breach. He arms and organizes a hunting expedition, leaving Lance to extract his family if he doesn’t return.
The hunters descend into the tunnel and stalk the CREATURES with weapons and flame throwers. Craig and Lance communicate by mining industrial telephones, Craig orders Lance to make for the exit, as his team lures the CREATURES deeper. Craig is wounded.
Lance and Melissa now must get everyone out and seal off the bunker. Pursued by the CREATURES, Lance leads survivors through the twists and turns of the underground tunnel.
They reach the entrance and enter the exit code just ahead of the creatures. But the massive door opens to nuclear chaos: Craig had been right. The world is at war. Military transports pass. The atmosphere catches fire as mushroom clouds and shock waves erupt.
Now the group must decide: try to survive the nuclear holocaust or return to the bunker and fight for their lives as early Man did against predators. As TITLES RUN, the humans re-enter IMPERVOS to fight the creatures and survive until earth is habitable again—if ever.
George Clooney
Edward Norton
End of Days
Clear and Present Danger
Linda Boroff graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English. She was nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction in 2016 and 2021. Her coming-of-age story, published in Cornell University's literary magazine, Epoch, is currently under option to Sony and director Brad Furman.
Linda collaborated with producer Don Murphy (Transformers, Natural Born Killers) in writing the biopic Fast Fade about tragic film noir actress Barbara Payton and on IMPERVOS ONE.
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