I fredags släpptes Scott Derricksons (Sinister) senaste rulle, The Gorge till Apple TV+ och många har redan hunnit dra paralleller till två kända skräckspel: Until Dawn och Silent Hill. Under en intervju fick producenten själv frågan om det var ett medvetet val att ta inspiration från skräckspelen, vilket Derrickson mycket riktigt bekräftade. Så här svarade han:
"I love those games, and I do think that gaming has sort of set the bar for gunplay action, especially if you're really with a single character or two characters, you kind of can't beat it."
Han fortsatte:
"I think that the challenge of the movie was not letting it fall into just the straight, chaotic stimulus of gaming-type action. The challenge was to have that kind of stimulus and power and really utilize that. But then to also really keep the romance alive."
Derrickson lyfter vidare fördelarna med att ha premiär via streamingtjänst kontra bio:
"I don't want to keep seeing the same movie getting made, you know, or versions of the same movies getting made. I think streaming is a place where you can really dare to be different because you don't have that box office pressure every on the opening weekend where people are going to decide whether or not your movie is a failure based on the box office return."
The Gorge finns att streama på Apple TV+ och i rollistan hittar vi Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy och Sigourney Weaver.
Filmens synopsis från IMDB:
Two highly-trained operatives are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it's too late.
Är The Gorge något för dig?
Until Dawn och Silent Hill inspirerade The Gorge.