Developed at the Writers Guild Foundation Veterans Writing Project
In a world scorched by the Global Energy Wars, an outlaw racer pilots a quantum-powered muscle car on the last run for human independence, against the empire that took everything from him.
A post-apocalyptic action feature set in a near-future world consumed by the Global Energy Wars and ruled by Lucian Thorne's corporate empire.
In a dystopian future, and after the failed global electric vehicle experiment, two rebellious street racers form an unlikely alliance to compete in a dangerous cross-country rally, challenging a tyrannical energy magnate who controls the world's remaining fuel resources.
Imagine a cinematic experience that captures Mad Max: Fury Road's brutal wasteland aesthetic, The Hunger Games' rebel-versus-oppressor tension, and Fast and Furious' heart-pounding street racing energy.
Welcome to 2065, where humanity bet everything on electric and lost the planet. The self-replicating nanobots that were supposed to save us are eating us instead, chewing through cities and highways like termites through a dollhouse. From a black glass tower in Houston, tech messiah Lucian Thorne hawks the cure he secretly caused, promising quantum salvation while his corporate empire squeezes whatever's left.
Out in the bones of Los Angeles, street racer Nitro's world goes sideways when Thorne Corp drags off his uncle Diego, the master mechanic running the underground resistance, for building quantum converters that work with nature instead of strangling it. So when Thorne dangles the Freedom Races, a 16,000-mile bloodbath from Alaska to Argentina with power and freedom for the winner, Nitro straps in, Diego's glyph-marked converter riding shotgun like a loaded gun wrapped in prophecy.
He finds a partner in Cipher, a quantum hacker hiding in plain sight as a racer while wiring the rebellion from her cockpit. With navigators Phantom and Glitch along for the ride, they clock something terrifying: the nanobots are waking up, growing a mind of their own like a dog that's figured out it never needed a leash. And the ghost racer shadowing them, Flux, turns out to be Niles Thorne, Lucian's estranged brother and co-architect of the whole nightmare, before the two split over one question: control, or harmony.
The road south is a fever dream where reality melts, cities run like chrome rivers and the asphalt breathes. Between Thorne's enforcers and a corporate assassin named Viper, a gut-punch in the Mexican wasteland rewrites the mission: Diego died in a cell days after his arrest. Rescue curdles into revenge, the Mayan Hero Twins myth catches fire in their blood, and by the time they thunder into the Atacama, the nanobots' new consciousness is ready to consume or transform everything. Nitro and Cipher are left holding the real choice: cross the finish line, or unleash Diego's harmonic tech and gamble the species on evolution instead of extinction. The finish line becomes ground zero for revolution. Because when the world runs dry, the fearless will rise.