Navarrette to Star and Exec Produce Apple's 'Waffle House Index' Thriller

Inde Navarrette, recently cast as Rogue in Marvel's X-Men film, will star in and executive produce the sci-fi thriller 'The Waffle House Index' for Apple Original Films. Plan B Entertainment produces the project, with a script by Andrew Nunnelly and direction by Louis Paxton. The story centers on a Waffle House waitress whose night shift is disrupted by a gunman, leading to a series of catastrophic events including floods, crocodiles, and aliens.

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The Waffle House Index is a real metric used by emergency management officials to gauge hurricane severity, with green, yellow, and red levels reflecting how fully the 24-hour restaurant chain continues operating during a storm. Nunnelly's script, which landed on the 2025 Black List, takes that practical disaster tool and escalates it into a surreal cascade of catastrophes.

Navarrette's casting follows her breakout performance in the horror hit Obsession, which grossed over $505 million worldwide and made her one of Hollywood's most