“What would you risk if you found something that should warn the planet.”
1978, while hunting for oil beneath the Yucatán gulf waters, a young geologist's magnetometer finds something impossible — a buried scar over a hundred miles wide. What he uncovers didn’t just end the age of dinosaurs and open the door for humanity. It could happen again — and almost no one will believe him.
"We're raising a $3 million budget to make this film everything it deserves to be, and this campaign is one of three paths getting us there, alongside private equity and pre-sales.
Here's what makes this exciting: this film is happening. We're fully prepared to produce it for as little as $850,000, and it will be a beautiful film at that level. Every dollar raised beyond that lets us go bigger with stronger casting, richer visuals, and a more powerful final film.
Every contribution goes directly into the film itself: pre-production, production and shooting, our cast, and post-production work like sound design and visual effects.
Thank you for being part of this. Anything helps — a gift, a prayer, or just passing this along to someone else. We're so grateful to have you with us as we bring this story to life, and we can't wait to share it with you."
Sincerely,
Jim Guyer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5220214/
Producer
PRODUCTION - READY
✓ Screenplay complete and in active revision
✓ Director, producer, and life-rights advisor attached
✓ Life-story rights secured with discoverer Glen Penfield
✓ Positioned for financing and sponsorship partners now
Themes - What the Film Is Really About:
Faith & Science
A man estranged from his childhood faith finds himself praying for the first time in decades — not despite the science, but because of it.
Truth vs. Power
Corporations and institutions choose silence, ownership, and optics over disclosure — and punish the man who won’t play along.
Sacrifice
One family absorbs the full cost of a discovery that would ultimately benefit all of humanity.
Vindication, Delayed
Being right isn’t the same as being believed — and sometimes the truth arrives before its too late.
Script Summary:
At its core, this is a true story audiences don't know they're missing: the discovery of the Chicxulub crater — the impact site that ended the dinosaurs and reshaped life on Earth — wasn't found by a NASA team or a famous scientist. It was found by an oil company geologist named Glen Penfield, doing survey work for Pemex, who noticed an anomaly nobody wanted and refused to let it go. That's a genuine underdog-discovery story in the tradition of Hidden Figures and October Sky — verified, dramatic, and virtually unknown to the public, which is rare, valuable territory for a based-on-a-true-story picture.
The script doesn't play this as a dry science procedural. It braids three engines together — a detective-story hunt for physical evidence, with flashes of Indiana Jones-style jeopardy grounded in a true, verifiable scientific discovery; a cross-cultural love story with Eren that gives the science emotional stakes; and a costly, escalating professional exile as Glen is disbelieved by his company, his industry, and eventually the scientific establishment itself. That triangulation means the film can be marketed as a thriller, a romance, or a prestige biopic depending on the cut of trailer — genuine four-quadrant appeal.
Structurally, it's disciplined. A man estranged from his childhood faith finds himself praying for the first time in decades — not despite the science, but because of it. The plot points land almost exactly where classic three-act architecture wants them, the personal and professional stakes escalate in lockstep rather than competing for attention, and the visual motifs — the recurring Ticking sound, the four asteroid-impact visions, the mysterious "Old Man" framing device — aren't decoration. They pay off. The Old Man reveal in particular rewards patient viewers and gives the film a rewatchable, "I need to see that again" quality that critics and audiences both respond to.
Visually, it's a director's and a trailer editor's dream: Cretaceous dinosaurs, an asteroid screaming through atmosphere, a hemisphere-wide extinction event, intercut with 1970s jungle aerial surveys and a man alone at 4 a.m. covered in graph paper - a film that sells itself on imagery alone.
And underneath the science is a very human, very marketable question — what do you sacrifice, and what do you owe the people you love, in pursuit of being right — which gives the ending (the airport reunion) real earned emotion rather than a tacked-on bow. It's a discovery story, a marriage story, and a faith-versus-proof story all resolving in the same scene, which is the kind of ending that plays well with both critics and general audiences.
Note: Because of Glen's discovery...
-NASA's Sentry system, built in 2002 to track hazardous asteroids and calculate how to change their paths, watches the sky every night.
-But in July 2019, a football-field-sized asteroid missed Earth by one fifth the distance to the moon, at 55,000 mph — and wasn't spotted until 24 hours before it arrived.
-In 2022, NASA's DART probe deliberately struck a distant asteroid and shifted its orbit — proof, for the first time, that we can move one.
-NASA’s NEO Surveyor mission, launching in 2027 using infrared light, is dedicated to finding those “hidden” behind the sun’s glare.
The world continues fighting over the oil beneath its feet — while the rocks high above it, keep coming.
