The Waffle House Index (Film)

“The Waffle House Index” is a sci-fi thriller from Apple Original Films and Plan B, starring Inde Navarrette (who is also executive producing) and directed by Louis Paxton from a script by Andrew Nunnelly that landed on the 2025 Black List. The story follows a Waffle House waitress whose already bad night shift spirals into chaos after a stranger with a gun shows up, escalating into a mass flood, killer crocodiles, a nuclear explosion, a magical bunker beneath the restaurant, and aliens. The title references the real “Waffle House Index,” an informal metric that measures a hurricane’s severity based on whether local Waffle House locations stay open during a storm; full plot details are otherwise still under wraps.