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Four people from very different walks of life, scattered throughout the western United States are forced to decide for themselves how they truly value life and love as they fight for survival in a world decimated by a deadly pandemic.
'Last Days' - which is basically '28 Days Later' meets 'The Wire' - is more specifically a dramatic series about survivors of a horrifying pandemic that turns the afflicted into undead, man-eating killers. Through the varying stories of its four main characters – Ned in Los Angeles, Sandy in Utah, Kim in Seattle and Allan in Oregon – Last Days makes a heart-felt case for the intrinsic civility and humanity of man.
Ned, who had been a jaded worker-bee before the fall, finds himself in the middle of ground zero – highly-dangerous, undead-riddled downtown Los Angeles – and turns himself into a heartless killer in order to survive; but the appearance of an old love threatens to shatter his carefully constructed shell. Sandy, the smart and lovestruck teenager, finds herself trapped with the family of her high school crush, but in order to save them, discovers the confident, powerful woman she never knew was inside of her. Kim, the sober nurse, fights her way to a growing and optimistic community of survivors making the best of it in a local football stadium, only to witness the lengths of evil to which some men will go in order to attain power. Allan, a reflective wanderer before the fall, continues to wander after, and noticing that little has actually changed for him since the world fell apart he continues to search for some kind of meaning to it all.
As Allan’s journal entries provide a kind of contemplative narration throughout, the different narratives weave together into a single story of ordinary people who when faced with super-extraordinary circumstances fight to maintain – or even refine if possible – their humanity.
Last Days and lastdaysjournal.com are the brain child of Chad Kukahiko and Superfreako Productions. The various "Last Days" scripts (one feature film version, several episodes of the webisode as well as a full five-year outline) are registered with the Writers Guild of America.