Follow the Crows, as I'm sure many of you know, is a post-apocalyptic thriller. So, what does that mean, exactly?
Well, I'm sure you are all aware of the genre in some way, shape or form. From Mad Max to The Road, from The Book of Eli to Escape From New York, there are a wealth of post-apocalyptic movies out there.
Some deal with an event (The Day After Tomorrow, 2012) while others deal with the aftermath of an event (The Rover, Terminator Salvation) but in all those movies the cause of the current state of the world is clear.
In Follow the Crows the setting is merely a backdrop for the story we wanted to tell (and for the ease of locations).
We had long discussions about what caused the apocalypse and we decided that it would be more in keeping with the films themes and story to leave it undisclosed.
See, the event itself isn't important to our narrative, it's merely a way to have characters interact in the way we wanted them to. A device, more than an actual story point.
You, as the audience, are welcome to draw your own theories as to what "killed the world", and I'm sure the cast and crew have done so themselves, but you won't find any definitive answers.
The idea behind Follow the Crows was to build an expansive world, one where a wealth of stories take place, and simply drop in on one of them. Because of that, the world is what's important, not the past that created it.
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