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The Thinning: New World Order. After risking her life to expose the corruption of the thinning test, Laina Michaels becomes the target of Governor Redding’s Machiavellian presidential campaign. Blake Redding, trapped and enslaved in a secret underground work camp, must fight to reconnect with Ellie, his presumably dead girlfriend, and do what no failed student has done before: escape.
The Thinning: New World Order is a 2018 American social science fiction thriller web film and the sequel to the 2016 film The Thinning. As with the first film, the movie was directed by Michael J. Gallagher and stars Logan Paul as a young man struggling against a dystopian future in which population control is enforced through a school aptitude test.
The film was released to YouTube Premium after being briefly shelved due to controversies surrounding its star, Logan Paul. It was generally panned by critics, with its excessive focus on main character Blake as well as lack of interesting themes highlighted as reasons of dislike.
About tne Story
Governor Dean Redding is running for the next presidential election. He attempts to get Laina Michaels’ support for his campaign to mitigate his own controversy surrounding the Thinning. She declines but is later recruited by teacher Ms. Cole and Assuru Global security guard Jack to accept Redding’s offer, in order to earn his trust and get close to him with hopes that this will help them end the Thinning for good.
Meanwhile, Blake is presumed dead by the public after he purposely failed the test, but he was actually taken to a slave labor facility to manufacture Assuru Global products along with other failed students called the Worthy (failed students chosen by the government to receive a second chance at life). He finds Ellie there, and they rekindle their relationship. Blake attempts to run away with Ellie, but they are caught by Mason King. DPC guards take Ellie away while Blake’s leg is broken by Mason.
Eight months later, two weeks before election day, Laina continues her support for Redding’s campaign. Kellan manages to crack the secret of the labor camps, saying Assuru Global doesn’t have a manufacturing area in their campus and they have been insourcing military rations from a company called TXPak, enough for 100,000 people per year.
Wendy Banks does not believe him, saying he doesn’t have any evidence or proof. He visits Laina and secretly tells her everything and she believes him. When Kellan gets in his car, someone tries to suffocate him with a bag, but he triggers the car alarm and scares the killer. Laina then calls FBI agent Joanne Morris and tells her about Kellan’s theory. Ms. Cole extracts Corrine and Joey out of the country only to be double-crossed by her co-worker.
As requested by Ms. Cole, Laina gets all the information from Redding’s campaign manager, Georgina Preston’s computer and manages to escape but Jack is caught. Laina is conned by Morris, and she tries to kill Laina. Laina manages to subdue Morris for a few seconds before jumping down into an apartment. She visits Kellan to copy the files of the camps from her drive to his computer. Kellan leaves, and gets in his car which explodes when he turns it on. Laina takes the drive and leaves.
It is revealed that Morris and her men, both in league with Assuru, killed Kellan and were planning to kill Laina to tie up loose ends. Morris camps behind a staircase outside, while her men go inside Kellan’s apartment. But Laina planned to blow up the apartment, killing Morris’s men. When Laina attempts to escape, she is assaulted by Morris to force Laina to give her the drive, but Laina kills Morris by stabbing her with a box cutting knife, then shoving her down a flight of stairs, which snaps Morris’ neck. Laina then makes it to BNC News where she turns over the drive to Wendy.
The Thinning: New World Order (2018)
Directed by: Michael J. Gallagher
Starring: Logan Paul, Peyton List, Lia Marie Johnson, Matthew Glave, Calum Worthy, Charles Melton, Michael Traynor, Laura Harring, Rome Flynn, Jana Winternitz, Amy Paffrath
Screenplay by: Michael Gallagher, Steve Greene
Production Design by: Tye Whipple
Cinematography by: Greg Cotten
Film Editing by: Arndt-Wulf Peemoller
Costume Design by: Pheobe Boynton
Set Decoration by: Tiffany Smith
Art Direction by: Kyle Frawley
Music by: Brandon Campbell
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: YouTube Originals
Release Date: October 17, 2018
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