How else would you like to see the world end (or nearly end) on screen?

[The_Long_Road]

@Baldwin

Well, if I’ve got it straight, somebody’s making a remake of Romero’s Day of the Dead, which was a sequel to Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. Not a sequel to the remake of Dawn, but rather a completely separate remake of Day. Don’t ask me why.

Half right. There is also a Sequel to Dawn of the Dead(2004) in process.

Day of the Dead didn’t do much for me. I’m interested to see if a remake adds something to it.

[Der_Trihs]

@Chronos

I’ve never liked the Gray Goo scenarios, because they’ve already happened. Earth already is dominated by gazillions of tiny, self-replicating nanomachines that eat everything, and it has been for the past four billion years. What’s the difference if they happen to be made by humans?

First, they would replace us. I’m reminded of a Larry Niven story were a billion-year old alien ( she spent most of her time near lightspeed, with slowed time ) mentioned visiting Earth early in her life, and speaking with the locals. It turned out that Earth was previously dominated by a slow-living intelligent anaerobic ( non-oxygen using ) species. They were destroyed by green goo, as it were; green algae evolved, filled the air with oxygen and killed them all.

The second difference is that nanomachines, depending on design, might be unable to evolve; thus the “grey” term. They might eat the biosphere, and just sit around until the sun dies, never doing anything interesting.

[CJJ]

I’m betting this has been done, but what about a scenario where no further children are born, a scenario that becaomes referred to as “The problem”. The drop-off in childbirth would be precipitous, and as the population ages a sense of dread and desperation grows as more and more resources and attention are turned to the “The problem” (e.g. schools and universities begin discarding all education unrelated to “The problem”).

I’d particularly be interested if it was clear than no life was ended prematurely by “The problem” itself; the only thing that was being lost was one’s legacy. I’d find it interesting to see if/how the value of something one can never own could rise to a point where it is all-consuming.

I think, though, this might work better as a book (too philosophical for the multiplex, plus there’d be far too many characters outside the 18-34 demo).

[The_Long_Road]

@CJJ*

I’m betting this has been done, but what about a scenario where no further children are born, a scenario that becaomes referred to as “The problem”. The drop-off in childbirth would be precipitous, and as the population ages a sense of dread and desperation grows as more and more resources and attention are turned to the “The problem” (e.g. schools and universities begin discarding all education unrelated to “The problem”).

I’d particularly be interested if it was clear than no life was ended prematurely by “The problem” itself; the only thing that was being lost was one’s legacy. I’d find it interesting to see if/how the value of something one can never own could rise to a point where it is all-consuming.

I think, though, this might work better as a book (too philosophical for the multiplex, plus there’d be far too many characters outside the 18-34 demo).

This idea has some similarity with Childhood’s End. Anything beyond that would be spoilers. Similar but different reasons for the problem.

[Steve_MB]

@CJJ*

I’m betting this has been done, but what about a scenario where no further children are born, a scenario that becaomes referred to as “The problem”. The drop-off in childbirth would be precipitous, and as the population ages a sense of dread and desperation grows as more and more resources and attention are turned to the “The problem” (e.g. schools and universities begin discarding all education unrelated to “The problem”).

I’d particularly be interested if it was clear than no life was ended prematurely by “The problem” itself; the only thing that was being lost was one’s legacy. I’d find it interesting to see if/how the value of something one can never own could rise to a point where it is all-consuming.

I think, though, this might work better as a book (too philosophical for the multiplex, plus there’d be far too many characters outside the 18-34 demo).

Human nature being what it is, I’d expect various sorts of individual and group insanity to blossom against that background…

[iamthewalrus_3]

@Der Trihs

The second difference is that nanomachines, depending on design, might be unable to evolve; thus the “grey” term. They might eat the biosphere, and just sit around until the sun dies, never doing anything interesting.

I don’t think that it’s so much that they’d be unable to evolve, it’s the fear that any evolution is unlikely to return to complex and intelligent life forms.

[Tangent]

@CJJ*

I’m betting this has been done, but what about a scenario where no further children are born, a scenario that becaomes referred to as “The problem”. The drop-off in childbirth would be precipitous, and as the population ages a sense of dread and desperation grows as more and more resources and attention are turned to the “The problem” (e.g. schools and universities begin discarding all education unrelated to “The problem”).

I’d particularly be interested if it was clear than no life was ended prematurely by “The problem” itself; the only thing that was being lost was one’s legacy. I’d find it interesting to see if/how the value of something one can never own could rise to a point where it is all-consuming.

I think, though, this might work better as a book (too philosophical for the multiplex, plus there’d be far too many characters outside the 18-34 demo).

The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Very similar to what you describe.

[Peter_Morris]

The Last Trump sounds.

[Star_Female]

Pollution. As in, The Last Gasp.

The Last Gasp by Trevor Hoyle

[Push_You_Down]

@Peter Morris

The Last Trump sounds.

And he says… “You’re fired.”
HAHAHA! Lame joke.

[SenorBeef]

@Der Trihs

Another : The Age of Technology ends, as magic returns - and almost everyone dies when all the trucks, farm machinery, refrigerators, medical equipment and so on stop working. The survivors are killed or enslaved by the returning mythical creatures, and the occasional human occultist whose magic now works.

Would LARPers become powerful? Would the world be saved by “…Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!”?

[Baker]

The book Implosion, from 1972, by a Dennis F.Jones, is one about a scenario with decreasing fertility, and what happens to society. I think the cause was finally discovered to be a bio weapon of some sort, that got out of control. Fertile women end up being placed in camps, are kept constantly pregnant, and so on. Their husbands can divorce them. I think, by the end, that it’s discovered that the first generation of girls born after the problem started is bearing only boys

It could easily be made into a movie I suppose, it wouldn’t even need any fancy special effects.

[Shirley_Ujest]

With the decrease of Pirates, Global Warming takes over the planet.

what?

[Martini_Enfield]

There’s something rather interesting about the end of the world as shown in Harlan Ellison’s short story I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream…