Alex WellersteinVerified account

make it a mini series on Netflix :)

Wouldn't a YouTube series or other short form web series be better format for the target audience? I would even like to see members of this age group produce it.

Film isn’t the right medium for this and never was. TV and video games are. In last 15 years there have been 3 US TV series that focused on post nuke war - BSG, Jericho and the 100

I agree that the best medium today to depict the horror of nuclear warfare would be a series on sites like Netflix or Hulu. However my concern would be that in order to make it appeal to a large audience the writers may glamorize nuclear warfare and it’s aftermath.

I feel that filmmakers now are reticent to make films about topics that are emotionally heavy. It is expensive to make films but the driving force now are the returns. Superhero movies are great because you spend little time on plot and a lot on effects and you get huge returns.

The Day After was a made for TV movie? Not a cinema film? Was shown over 2 or 3 nights, network primetime. Ronald Reagan noted in his diary how much it affected him.

Someone needs to make the BBC release Threads. It's dated, but still accurate as to what a spasmic nuclear exchange, collapsing civilization, would be like for people living and dying through it.