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1. Infestation – Brood X Storyboards
Young lovers must battle a mutated population of killer Cicada that
emerges in a small Pennsylvania town.
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20. The Story
In the shadow of Three-Mile Island, the small town of
Youngesburgh, Pennsylvania sits peacefully, its citizens
living a quiet life. Every year, however, they spice
things up with an annual festival to celebrate the
emergence of the annual dogday green cicada broods.
In 2004, however, the people of Youngesburgh await
an extremely rare brood, Brood X. Once seen as a
Biblical plague, this brood spends seventeen years
underground before it emerges to take flight, lays
eggs, and begins the cycle all over again. The Brood X
cicada is easily recognized from its black body, its
blood red eyes, and the large blood veins on its wings
that look like Ws. Unfortunately, the Brood X cicadas
that will emerge this year have been burrowing in
irradiated soil polluted by leaks from the nearby
nuclear power plant. When they emerge, they will
leave carnage and devastation in their wake.
Craig and his fiancée, Liza, are passing through
Youngesburgh, Craig’s hometown, where they visit his
estranged uncle Bill and aunt Kim, with whom Craig
feels it’s time to make amends. They also run into a
documentary film crew directed by Josh, Liza’s ex-
boyfriend, who is still in love with her. Craig and Liza’s
greatest obstacles are dealing with his close-minded
relatives and her ex until Brood X emerges and wreaks
havoc on the town. They all must team together to
battle the hideous, mutated, vulture-sized cicadas that
are using their victims in which to incubate their eggs,
and in the process, find a renewed connection with
each other.

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22. The real stars…

26. CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
• Liza (early 20s):
• Liza is a strong-willed, intelligent, martial arts-trained Latina. She’s
lived a happy and successful life in California with few obstacles.
After breaking up with Josh because of his commitment
problems, she fell in love with Craig who she’s been with ever since.
After graduating, she gets her first big job as a chemist at a
cosmetics company in New York. On the move out East, she and
Craig, now her fiancé, stop in Youngesburgh, Craig’s hometown, so
that he can mend his relationship with his estranged relatives and
introduce her to them. She’s optimistic about her new
future, though struggles with Craig because he doesn’t want to deal
with his hidden emotional scars. Adding to her struggle is the
unexpected appearance of her old boyfriend, Josh, who is still in
love with her. Liza has to deal with both men, Craig’s relatives, and
the destructive brood of killer cicada in order to survive.

27. The boyfriend…
• Craig (early 20s):
• Craig is a young man filled with anger and unresolved issues. His
parents were killed in a freak steel mill accident when he was very
young. His minister uncle and judgmental aunt adopted him and
raised him as their own. Craig had a substantial inheritance from
his parent’s death and he believes this is the only reason they raised
him. Feeling he can’t trust his uncle and aunt, he left home the day
he turned eighteen. He’s discarded his upbringing and the people
in his past while trying to forge a new path with his intelligent
Latina fiancée, Liza. Unfortunately, when he shows up in town to
mend his relationship with his aunt and uncle, Liza’s ex-boyfriend
Josh is there. If Craig wants to keep his fiancée, he’ll have to deal
with his jealousy and confront the demons from his past while
trying to survive the menacing pestilence of the Brood X.

28. The ex-boyfriend…
• Josh (early 20s):
• Josh, Liza’s ex-boyfriend, is a young, talented documentary
filmmaker. He’s anti-establishment and believes in every conspiracy
theory ever created. When Josh and Liza were together, he was a
struggling filmmaker, taking any job he could find and neglecting
Liza in the process. She quickly got sick of it and broke up with him.
Now that he’s established, he finally feels that he is ready to
commit to a serious relationship. He’s traveled to Youngesburgh on
his first independent project to record the mysterious 17-year
emergence of the periodical brood X cicada where he unexpectedly
bumps into Liza. He believes his surprise reunion with her is
destiny. His only obstacles are Liza’s fiancé and the deadly brood X
cicada.

29. The family ties…
• Uncle Bill (late 40s – early 50s):
• Uncle Bill is a kind, gentle man and is the town’s
Presbyterian minister. Uncle Bill prides himself on being
hip and in touch with the town’s youth, which he’s not. He
took in his nephew, Craig, when his only brother and sister-
in-law were killed in a freak accident at the local steel mill.
He had a strained relationship with his brother before his
death and has been unable to heal his nephew’s emotional
scars or his own. Uncle Bill is married to Kim, a judgmental
preacher’s wife. He provides the group with an unwavering
faith that they’ll all be able to defeat the menacing brood
of cicada that has infiltrated their sleepy little town.

30. The nosey aunt…
• Aunt Kim (late 40s – early 50s):
• Aunt Kim loves her nephew, Craig, and her husband, Bill, but not
much else. She uses her position as a preacher’s wife to judge
everyone around her. She was unable to have children of her own
due to Bill’s infertility and now has an intense disliking for other
people’s children. Her husband, the town’s Presbyterian minister,
runs the church’s youth group, which presents Kim with constant
inner conflict. She especially dislikes Sarah, the police chief’s
daughter. Kim was once in love with the Chief but he chose a much
younger, prettier woman to be his bride. Kim must bury her old
resentments and learn to accept others if she wants to survive the
killer brood of cicada.

31. The law…
• Chief Gibon (late 40s – mid 60s):
• Police Chief Gibon is a competent man running the police
station in the small, quiet Pennsylvania town of
Youngesburgh. Most of his problems don’t come from
criminals but from his troubled teenage daughter. He
married a young woman who, after having their daughter,
Sarah, abandoned them for a younger man. Chief Gibon
has raised Sarah on his own the best he knows how. As the
havoc begins, he stands tall, becoming the community
leader when the mayor gets killed and helping the group of
lead characters eliminate the mutant brood.

32. The teen…
• Sarah (late teens):
• Sarah is a headstrong teenager and the daughter of the
town’s Chief of Police. She acts like she owns
Youngesburgh and everyone in it. Her false bravado is
an attempt to cover up her pain from being abandoned
by her mother. Despite her father’s attempts at taking
care of her, she has always felt like she’s on her own
and is ready to get out of town. She’s forced to
recognize the value of her father and her connection to
the town when she encounters the aggressive brood X.

33. The ex-cop…
• Bob (40s):
• Bob is a recovering alcoholic and ex-cop. Due to
an unfortunate incident involving his loaded
weapon and a donut shop drive-thru sign, he’s
lost his standing in the community and was
kicked of the police force. He lives in shame as a
for-hire security guard. He’s kind and
understanding even though he’s been ostracized
by society.

34. The wise elderly man…
• Harold (70s – 90s):
• Harold is an old, eccentric man who has been around long enough
to have pretty much seen everything. Because of this, he never
seems surprised and always seems mysterious to people observing
him. He’s lived in Youngesburgh for a long time, though seems to
disappear from time to time only to appear later acting as if
nothing’s happened. He’s the sort of guy who has one of those
creepy old houses; kids dare each other to knock on his door.
Harold isn’t really surprised at all by the mutant brood X cicada and
watches the goings-on as if it’s just another strange episode in his
life.