Concept for thriller - the manhattan project

The film title

The Manhattan project- concept for media thriller

Genre -sci-fi/period/psychological thriller

Tag line -What if everything you knew about the Manhattan project was a lie?

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." -J. Robert Oppenheimer

Synopsis

 1951 an explosion of nuclear proportion sets off in the state of Alaska. There are no casualties, no damage and most of all anyone caught up in the blast radius is alive. Several weeks later Alaska is declared an independent state by one Andrew Susan. Citizens of the newly formed country are prohibited to leave under penalty of death. In the weeks to come America’s retaliates in an act of war. This proves to be ineffective, entry into the state resulted in an explosion similar to the one which started the events to come. There are many casualties but no bodies were found; it was almost as if everyone had disappeared out of thin air. This point in time will be referred to as 2^nd impact.

 It’s the year 1957, no one has entered the state of Alaska since 2^nd impact, and citizens of the state are believed to be dead. We find our protagonist John Larson Journalist and war veteran aboard a plane to the very site where it all happened, a facility in anchorage, Alaska as he goes on to investigate what happened in 1951 and what happened to the people caught up in 2^nd impact. However Larson isn’t just for the fame and glory, he has also been tasked to find someone who may or may not have caused the incident by his mysterious source who claims that the Manhattan Project; the development of the A bomb was a cover up for something more destructive. This source believes that exact thing and the 1951 Alaskan explosion and the events that follow all ties back towards the Manhattan project and J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb" who disappeared on the day of the 1951 Alaskan explosion.

When Larson enters the states airspace his plane suddenly crashes in the city of anchorage, however Larson miraculously survives the crash only to find himself surrounded by a barren and empty town. However not all is as it seems as Larson comes in contact by a mysterious voice via radio with the transmission warning him to run. Shortly after listing to the radio transmission Larson is ambushed and by a group of militia run by Andrew Susan. Whilst interrogating Larson it becomes apparent that Susan in fact knows who Larson is almost so as if they’ve met. However this interrogation is soon broken as Larson is rescued by the mystery voice on the radio. On the run from Susan’s militia Larson encounters the first of many horrors he will soon encounter while in his stay as he is attacked by an irradiated citizen of the 2^nd impact explosion. The effects of the radiation cause the human body to shift between the past, present and future, prolonged effect to this and it causes the mind to go insane and violent, however even longer contact with this 2^nd impact radiation have not been encountered yet. With nothing but his revolver and his determination John Larson must survive Susan’s militia and the irradiated people of anchorage to get down to the bottom of the 1951 explosion and its ties to the Manhattan project.