The Dead Land (2024)

Tagline: “In the land of the dead, the living fight to survive.”
In a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by war and disease, humanity clings to survival in desolate regions known as the “Dead Lands.” These barren wastelands are ruled by warring factions, violent marauders, and mysterious creatures born from the remnants of failed experiments.
Amid the chaos, a young scavenger named Kara (Florence Pugh) stumbles upon a mysterious artifact rumored to hold the key to reversing the planet’s decay. Chased by ruthless mercenaries, Kara must team up with a former soldier, Marcus (Idris Elba), and a cunning rogue, Tess (Ana de Armas), to traverse the treacherous Dead Lands and uncover the truth about the artifact—and the people willing to kill for it.
The movie opens with a grim montage of the world’s fall: governments collapsed, resources were depleted, and humanity retreated to fortified enclaves surrounded by the Dead Lands. These desolate expanses are littered with the ruins of cities and mutated ecosystems, home to the desperate and the deadly.
Kara, an orphaned scavenger, survives by exploring the ruins for valuable relics to trade for food and water. During one of her scavenging missions, she discovers the artifact—a glowing, cube-like device pulsing with energy. Unbeknownst to her, the artifact is a lost prototype from the “Rebirth Project,” a pre-apocalypse experiment aimed at terraforming the planet.
When the artifact activates, it sends a signal that attracts mercenaries from the tyrannical faction known as the Sable Order, led by the cold and calculating Commander Voss (Oscar Isaac). Kara barely escapes their clutches, fleeing into the Dead Lands with the artifact.