SHELTER

Finished this script by Karl Mueller.

Story's about a group of survivors locked away in a basement shelter after nuclear war.  We learn that it's really not the attack that we have to survive, it's...each other.

Mueller can write.  His characters jump off the page.  The situation grows steadily worse as our survivors start to turn on one another.

My only problem I have with the script is the ending.  A woman we've never seen comes out and saves our lead.  Realistically, it might work.  After all, we don't know what's going on topside.  It's entirely plausible that there are people roaming about.  However, it doesn't work dramatically.  The lead has to save herself.  There cannot be a deus ex machina here.  It ruins everything that has transpired.

The script rocks.  The pages flow.  You feel trapped down there with them.  Would I make this movie though?  I seriously doubt it.  While I love the writing, I don't see tremendous box office here.  It's a depressing situation with non-existent ancilliary markets to plunder.  Hard to turn a profit with this project.

Mueller's got talent.  I'd get ahold of his agent and implore him/her to get Mueller to write something commercial now.