Tagline: Welcome to paradise. It’s closer than you think.
At the film’s opening, a voice-over explains that mankind’s technological breakthroughs in the development of artificial intelligence and robotics eventually lead to a global war. Afterward, the remnants of humanity struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland while the surviving machines remain hidden.
In the wasteland, a Warlord (James Franco), raids a settlement that contains a high-tech lab with an android girl named Ash (Suki Waterhouse). The Warlord activates Ash who opens two different colored eyes, (one blue, one green), that light up when she receives commands through a handheld remote.
Elsewhere, in a fertile zone called the Oasis, a young man called the Prince (Jeffrey Wahlberg), sets out on a mission into the wasteland in search of medicine to help his sick mother the Queen (Lucy Liu). His only clue to finding it is a faded postcard of a place called “Paradise Beach” where the rumored cure resides.
The Prince and his friends who accompany him, stop at Love Town, a wasteland settlement that deals in sex slaves and is run by the pimp “Big Daddy Love Lord” (Snoop Dogg). There they try to get directions to Paradise Beach but attract the attention of the Raiders. The Prince’s friend Rico (Ben Youcef), drives off the Raiders with a handgun – a rare and valuable item in the wasteland.
Big Daddy approaches with an offer to meet with someone who can help them, but it ends up being a trap set up by the Warlord where Ash captures the Prince and kills his friends. The Warlord then forces the Prince into taking them back to the Oasis, during which Ash, (who knows the Warlord will kill everyone), decides to save him.
Ash is damaged during the escape, leaking fluid from a gash in her abdomen, but she and the Prince manage to find shelter where she passes out when her systems shut down. The next day the Prince fashions a stretcher and drags Ash’s body through the wasteland until he eventually finds the ocean. There his hopes are shattered when they are taken prisoner again by another group of wastelanders residing in the ruins of the seaside resort.
At the resort the Prince meets the “Drug Lord” (Milla Jovovich), who offers him the cure but at a cost. She injects him with a syringe and he passes out after experiencing hallucinations. Meanwhile Ash is taken to Lei (Margarita Levieva), a mechanic and a prisoner of the Drug Lord, who repairs Ash and reactivates her. Afterward, Ash is taken before the Drug Lord who fawns over how valuable she is.
The next day the Drug Lord forces the Prince into a gladiatorial battle with one of her minions saying that if he survives he gets the medicine and goes free. The Prince manages to defeat his opponent and retrieves the drugs, but the Drug Lord says that Ash is staying with her.
Later that evening, Lei goes to free Ash who is chained up in a cell but her attempt to saw the chains proves futile. Ash accepts her fate to remain a prisoner but decides to repay Lei for her kindness and makes love to her. The next morning, the Drug Lord discovers Ash and Lei together and, in a jealous rage, orders Lei to wipe Ash’s memory of the event and reprogram her into a loving companion for herself instead.
Future World is a 2018 American science fiction action Western film, directed by James Franco and Bruce Thierry Chung, from a screenplay by Chung and Jay Davis. It stars James Franco, Suki Waterhouse, Jeffrey Wahlberg, Margarita Levieva, Snoop Dogg, George Lewis Jr., Cliff ‘Method Man’ Smith, Lucy Liu and Milla Jovovich. The film was released on May 25, 2018, by Lionsgate Premiere.
Future World (2018)
Directed by: James Franco, Bruce Thierry Cheung
Starring: James Franco, Suki Waterhouse, Jeffrey Wahlberg, Method Man, Margarita Levieva, Snoop Dogg, Twin Shadow, Lucy Liu, Milla Jovovich, Carmen Argenziano, Rumer Willis, Lidiya Korotko
Screenplay by: Jeremy Cheung, Jay Davis
Production Design by: Eve McCarney
Cinematography by: Peter Zeitlinger
Film Editing by: Alex Freitas, William Paley
Costume Design by: David Page, Jonny Pray
Set Decoration by: Sandra Skora
Art Direction by: Patrick Jackson
Music by: Toydrum
MPAA Rating: R for violence, sexual content/nudity, language and drug use.
Distributed by: Lionsgate Films
Release Date: May 25, 2018
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