The Third Cereal War took a terrible toll on the country and its population. After General Mills elected to drop irradiated Cheerios all across
Michigan in the hopes of blunting the Kellogg loyalists entrenched there nuclear cereal warfare only escalated, leading to a bitter three-way struggle between them and the remaining Post faction, with Kashi and Magic Spoon and their calls for armistice being snuffed out almost immediately.
Now as radioactive fallout covers most of the continental US the small remaining bands of survivors learn that the only remaining cereal that can safely be consumed without fear of lethal radiation poisoning is good old grape-nuts, though they still have enough rads on board to cause some interesting mutations following consumption.
Soon old rivalries come to the fore again, as various factions of mutant-powered combatants brave the surface to try and finally eradicate their cereal rivals. After one particularly bloody skirmish at ground zero in Battle Creek, a Post commander makes a desperate gambit- dropping some juiced up grape-nuts into CW Post’s grave in Oak Hill Cemetery. As the Founder’s irradiated corpse shambles out of the ground and begins to bark orders to his followers, will it lead to a new world order or the end of it all? It’s the Post Apocalypse in a post-apocalypse US in Alex Garland’s new film, fast-tracked following the success of Civil War and funded entirely by product placement.