Ridley Scott plans his "day when Britain stopped"

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Work on the upcoming picture will begin next year. Recall that the plot of BBC tapes rotates around the following events:

In the film, the country faces the national crisis at the end of 2003, the UK transport infrastructure is not able to cope with the volume of traffic with which it faces daily. British roads are the busiest in Europe, the sky is the most loaded in the world, the railway network is experiencing a catastrophe for a disaster. The full collapse of all these systems was not far off - a warning was received that ignored.

December 19, 2003 - the last Friday before Merry Christmas, one of the busiest days in British roads. In the film, the day begins with the first of the 24-hour railway strikes series, which led to the monstrous railway catastrophe in Waverley. This increased traffic on roads. By the beginning of the second half of the day after two accidents costs M25 (British highway). Small incidents throughout the country lead to the emergence of a constantly growing plug from Scotland to West Country. By evening, hundreds of thousands of motorists turned out to be stuck in minus temperatures, and the police are forced to resort to emergency measures used exclusively in the case of a humanitarian crisis.

The traffic jam on the road means that passengers cannot get to their flights, and hundreds of important workers, including doctors, nurses, pilots, air traffic controllers, can not get to their place of work. The air traffic controller, overwhelmed by work due to a lack of people, makes a tiny error that leads to disastrous consequences.

At 22:28 a catastrophe, which many predicted, happened. The passenger aircraft faced a Czech cargo plane over Houongsloau, all passengers and crew members were killed.

The original scenario was written by Simon Finch and Gabriel Ranj, who also became the director of the film. It is worth noting that the version of Scott and Zellyan will not exactly repeat the original, and will become a variation on the same topic.

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