‘65’ Directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods Wanted to Make a Movie ‘That Would Make the 11-Year-Old Versions of Ourselves Giddy’ (Video)
thewrap.com“65” has arrived.The new sci-fi thriller stars Adam Driver as a space traveler who crash lands on a foreign planet after his ship is struck by asteroids.
Except that this isn’t an alien planet, it’s earth 65 million years ago. And he’s not dealing with marauding alien creatures; he’s battling dinosaurs. (He also has to keep a young passenger alive.
She’s the sole survivor of the crash.) We learned more about this project by talking to writer/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.
Watch the video above.Beck and Woods previously collaborated on the script for “A Quiet Place,” which wound up establishing an entire franchise (Paramount is working on the third film, a spinoff, right now) and is centered around a similarly ingenious-yet-hooky high concept.“In the wake of ‘A Quiet Place,’ this idea for ‘65’ was already gestating in our heads.
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