Idea Surfr

300 years into the future, post crisis humanity is getting back on its feet.

Open to an oasis in the desert overlooked by rock formations. A band of semi nomadic tribes people have wandered into "the cursed lands". Old petrified wooden signs and carvings into what stones still stand warn of an ancient curse on the water and the surrounding earth.

One of the older tribesmen warn the character tells of the powerful magic at the sight telling them any who take anything will be cursed.

Of course they dismiss the old man, explore the area, finding undisturbed valuables from before the "great fall", taking small souvenirs and valuable scrap.

The next day after giving the trinkets to his friends, they become violently ill, red rashes wherever they wore the trinkets.

So at the end of the movie its revealed this was a radioactive dump for long term storage in the Arizona deserts....add or modify whatever you want. Its just off the top of my head.

It's a little like the Incredibles where the heroes have to retire and adjust to civilian life, but rather than it being due to the public and/or government being assholes, it's because they did essentially too good of a job at saving the world.

People often complain these days about how superheroes are only interested in maintaining the status quo, but this superhero team fought to rework society, knowing that if the world was to be saved, they needed to treat the disease itself instead of merely its symptoms. Thanks to their efforts, they'd managed to bring the world to that fabled post-scarcity state, with poverty, disease, crime, pollution, war, all rendered things of the past, or to negligible levels.

With every inch of the world made into a paradise, the superhero team had no real reason to continue, as they'd fulfilled their mission, and thus they parted ways and settled into civilian lives. While some adjust to post-superhero utopian life better than others(with some of them being just bored), one member of their ranks starts to genuinely chafe under the utopian status quo, as they'd actually enjoyed fighting the bad guys, and now they're left with no battles to fight or wrongs to right, turned into a soldier without a war, a rebel without a cause.

This former hero decides to recreate the old day, by force. They arrange for the escape of some of the villains they and their former teammates fought(the prison system has been heavily reworked so villains aren't constantly breaking out faster than they're locked up) and begins a campaign of destruction. The other former superheroes catch wind of all this and have to band together for one last job. I'm thinking it would end with them staying together for good, always on call in case someone tries to threaten the peace they'd worked so hard for.

I don't have a title, but the tagline is, "Saving the day, one last time"

Thoughts?

I dreamed tonight about a movie that doesnt exist but now I wish it would... In my dream Denzel Washington was a Secret service guy/limo driver for Gerri from Succession. She was senator or politician of some kind. They was good friends and had a good relationship. He was like his character from Equalizer. In the beginning of the movie they start getting followed by a car and they have to speedway away.. And there was Kidnapping motive and ransom plot.

Problem is Gerri is in on it. She is corrupt. And Kiefer Sutherland was the bad guy reprising his role from Phone Booth! It was awesome.

Now I wish it existed it was so good! When i woke up i searched the internet for it but i guess i mixed it up with his new movie Highest 2 Lowest. I havent heard good things about it but now I got to see it just because.