The nuclear fallout/apocalypse/end-of-the-world survival story is a pretty common genre at this point with countless films and television shows taking a crack at it. But it looks like a new film is attempting to change that narrative by asking the question—when the world ends and not only you, but also your home is spared from desolation and death, what do you do?
In Z for Zachariah, which premiered at Sundance and is based on the 1974 (posthumous) science fiction novel by Robert C. O’Brien, Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) is a young woman who has been surviving in the livable land on Earth only with her dog as company after a nuclear war that wiped out the planet. Her life of isolation is shattered when she meets two fellow survivors—Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Chris Pine (Star Trek)—and tensions run high.
The film, which looks like it includes one of the most stressful love triangles ever, will hit theaters on August 21.
(via Variety)
