Captive State
Captive State is a 2019 American science fiction thriller film directed, co-written, and produced by Rupert Wyatt. The film stars John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors, Colson Baker, and Vera Farmiga, and follows a young man who conspires to rebel against an alien race that had invaded Earth and imposed martial law on humanity almost a decade earlier.
Plot
In 2018, Chicago is placed under martial law after a global extraterrestrial invasion. As the Drummond family attempts to flee the city, they break through a barricade but are confronted by the aliens, who vaporize the parents but leave their sons Gabriel and Rafe alive.
More details
| author | Rupert Wyatt |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago |
| director | Rupert Wyatt |
| editor | Andrew Groves |
| events | alien invasion |
| genre | science fiction thriller |
| keywords | act arrest blackberry chicago police chicago police department classify cyanide pill extraterrestrial invasion government official hide impoverish inspire kill law enforcement lock martial law meet open pack plan police commissioner police raid run rush soldier field vaporize |
| musicBy | Rob Simonsen |
| producer | David Crockett Rupert Wyatt |
| productionCompany | Lightfuse & Gettaway Participant Media |
| publisher | Focus Features |
| theme | dystopian extraterrestrial life science fiction thriller terrorism the future |