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So instead of being crushed to death quickly, you can be entombed alive and hope you’re found before the rations run out. No toilet facilities noted either (I guess you could pee into emptied water bottles).
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I like where you’re going with this. Can it star The Rock?
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Hm. He can be a… not an official rescue worker, that’s too obvious… a construction worker. Someone who’s also involved with demolitions of old buildings, so he’ll have plausible knowledge of how rubble works. Ah! A construction worker who’s done a tour in Iraq or Afghanistan, who helped civilians out of bombed buildings.
Due to his war experiences, he’s hypervigilant, and insists on getting one of these beds, over his wife’s – oh duh, pregnant wife’s objections.
He goes out with his work buddies to celebrate finishing a project, his wife waits up for a bit then gives up and goes to bed, the big one happens, his wife’s trapped in the survival bed, the Rock need to get back to her before she runs out of air. Rescue workers aren’t bothering with their building because they figure no-one could have survived.
Hm. Needs a B plot with some opportunities for comic relief.
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He’s warned to stay away from the area by the head of the rescue crew, who is a stern, by-the-book kind of guy. Coincidentally, he used to be the Rock’s CO in the Army. And at that point the Rock steals a helicopter to fly into the “hot zone.”
It turns out that the reason there has been so much damage to the area where Mr. and Mrs. Rock were living is due to falsified inspections approved by a corrupt politician. This politician is now hampering rescue efforts in an attempt to cover up all evidence of his crimes. He calls in the National Guard to hunt the Rock down. This leads to the climax involving Rock’s construction pals vs. the rescue workers, vs. the National Guard.
In the end they all join forces and capture the polititian just as he is kicked off the Mayor’s yacht. The Mayor was getting kick-backs, but even he has limits.
The humorous subplot involves the Rock forgetting to pick up a prescription earlier in the day. At incongruous moments he find the paperwork still in his pocket. He even hides in a damaged drug store at one point, and after the shooting subsides sees if one of the employees there can help him. After his wife is rescued, despite her dehydration and fatigue, she asks if he got the prescription. Ha ha. In an after-credits scene he finally gets the prescription. He opens the paper bag and we see it’s Rogaine.
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Rock’s construction pals vs. the rescue workers, vs. the National Guard
The trailers are going to have the Dumptruck vs. MRAP scene, you know
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Great memo! We need to turn into a concept. Let’s do lunch. Have your people call my people.
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Thrift store finds
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I would expect nothing less.
And the dumptruck would be driven by two guys — one kind of like Michael Clarke Duncan and the other kind of like Steve Buscemi.
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Who will banter with each other in a way that is supposed to convey how working class they are, but which fails because it’s so obviously two actors doing an improv exercise.
But the audience takes it because it’s a short scene and oddly endearing anyhow.
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Somebody should run this movie plot by our @Donald_Petersen. He might know somebody who knows somebody… 
(Really though, this could be a movie. If Sharknado 5: Global Swarming got made, we’ve got a shot.)
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A very stable dog…
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Please do not forget that his pregnant wife fell asleep with their angelic little 3 year old girl. Both mother and child were wearing all white gowns. Mom had just finished painting her daughters nails with adorable, quirky stars and sparkles at the daughter’s request. Neither of them has a name.
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Ah yes, but there is also a woman among the Rock’s construction pals. She goes by the name “Babe” Babanovski. She wears flannel shirts and swears a lot. During the climax she takes down a National Guard helicopter with a backhoe.
After it’s all over, and everything is happily resolved, she and the Rock’s former CO light up a pair of cigars. She notices his Zippo lighter is engraved with his regimental insignia. She confesses to him that her first name is actually Gladys. Then they walk off together.
So, yeah, two women. That seems like enough.
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