The 'Project Power' ending explained by the screenwriter and why he wants to include Black Lives Matter in a sequel

• Warning: Spoilers below if you haven't seen "Project Power."
• "Project Power" screenwriter Mattson Tomlin explained to Insider how he came up with the movie's ending.
• He also talked about what he hopes to explore in the story if given the chance to film a sequel.
• Tomlin has a long list of superpowers that weren't used in "Project Power" that he would like to dive into.
• He wants to continue the story and address Black Lives Matter in a sequel.

In the thrilling ending to the Netflix action movie "Project Power," we saw "The Major" (Jamie Foxx), Frank (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and Robin (Dominique Fishback) successfully stop the Power drug from being distributed across the country, and rescue Tracy, The Major's daughter.

It was all done in dramatic fashion thanks to The Major unleashing his superpower after taking the drug, which is him setting off a fire blast that incinerates everyone in its path.

In the epilogue, the three go their separate ways. Frank hints that he's going to drop the Project Power drug trade to the press, Robin goes back to The Major's truck and takes all the money in the trunk back to her mother, while The Major drives off with Tracy hoping to start a new life, no longer having to look over his shoulder.

It looks like everything is tied up nicely. Even when Frank asks The Major if all this is really over, The Major responds, "For me, it is."

But is it really?

"Project Power" certainly has that feel of a movie that Netflix would like to see become a franchise. The story is about a drug that lets you possess a superpower for five minutes, though it's unknown what that power will be until you take it. The power struggle of good versus evil as people fight over the drug seems like it could be told in countless movies, regardless if Netflix can get Foxx, Gordon-Levitt, or Fishback to return.

The movie's screenwriter, Mattson Tomlin, who came up with the movie's idea and sold it to Netflix, also agrees. But he said with "Project Power" he and directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman were thinking less about a franchise and really focused more on getting the movie right — especially the ending.

"There was never a point where we thought we are going to box ourselves in to be obligated to do something in the future," Tomlin told Insider, admitting it just felt right that "The Major" would be able to ride off into the sunset at the end. "I definitely wrote a lot of different endings. The objective was to tell the story and end it on the right note."

But with the movie now out, Tomlin can't help but think about how the story could move forward. He added that he has "a long long list of powers that didn't make the cut" in the movie.

"There's a number of things in my back pocket that I'm really excited to explore and play with," he said of the superpower angle.

One example is the origin of the superpowers. In "Project Power," the Power drug is derived from the abilities of animals.

"Just because the first movie was from the animal kingdom world doesn't mean we can't progress out of that and start to get trippier," he said. "I think there's a lot to explore there."

Tomlin also believes that any sequel would have to touch on the world we are living in now, specifically Black Lives Matter and the social unrest that has come from it.

"What interests me as a screenwriter is how to make a big sci-fi story about something real and have it resonate with something that's actually going on," Tomlin said.

In "Project Power," that's evident in the movie's setting of New Orleans. There are several instances that touch on how the city is still recovering from the devastation of 2005's Hurricane Katrina throughout the film.

"To make a movie is so hard that you really want it to say something," Tomlin said. "So to me this movie is so much about having a real political resonance and being about what's going on in this country and about the power structures that are failing people. So yeah, things like Black Lives Matter are ripe for exploration if we're lucky to do a sequel."

"Project Power" is currently available on Netflix.