Overpopulation is on everybody’s mind, and the Child Allocation Act (CAA) is martial law. Despondent news broadcasts suggest a world in turmoil. In one of those leaden, expository introductions, it’s established that the year is 2073. What Happened to Monday feels less like a film than a pitch that was strong enough to market, with little concern for its artistic follow-through. Rolling out on Netflix, director Tommy Wirkola and writers Max Botkin and Kerry Williamson’s sci-fi actioner squanders its solid concept with a bitter lack of creativity or insight. Seven sisters in seclusion, hiding in a dystopic society that doesn’t allow for siblings because of gross overpopulation? Cool! That premise, extrapolated with low-rent action scenes that rob the film of any meaningful ideology? Not so cool. True or not, What Happened to Monday feels like a similarly great example of first-draft writing, and what happens when baser instincts take over a decent idea. (For what it’s worth, the made-up airplane escape in Affleck and Chris Terrio’s Argo script loosely suggests some truth to this gossip.) The point is that their first pass was stock nonsense, for such a perfectly interesting core conceit. Oscar winner William Goldman may have had a hand in re-writing and scaling back the script to a cleaner, more emotional place. It featured car chases, G-men looking to exploit Will’s genius, proper action, and the like. The duo won Oscars for their soulful examination of genius angst, but supposedly, the first draft wasn’t so sincere. There was this great rumor about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s first draft of the Good Will Hunting screenplay.

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