‘Kimi’ Writer David Koepp on His Steven Soderbergh Thriller and ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
thewrap.comrecently said of Koepp, “There’s a reason he’s the most successful screenwriter in history”). And that’s what we’ve got in “Kimi,” a paranoid techno-thriller debuting Thursday on HBO Max. “Kimi” stars Zoë Kravitz as Angela, an agoraphobic young woman in Seattle working for a start-up introducing a new digital assistant named Kimi.
Her job is to scrub through janky audio recordings; one day she comes across a recording that rattles her to the core – did a woman seemingly record her violent attack?
Did Angela become the ear-witness to a murder?TheWrap talked with Koepp about what it was like working with Soderbergh, how the pandemic factored into the film’s development, and what Koepp thought of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which featured his Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire), back in action.It should also be noted that Koepp is an equally talented novelist; his first novel (“Cold Storage”) is being turned into a movie later this year (Koepp wrote the script) and his sophomore novel, “Aurora,” is set to debut this summer. (We refer to both during the interview.)How did it take so long for you and Soderbergh to work together?David Koepp: I don’t know.
I’ve known him for 30 years, because our first films were “Apartment Zero” and “sex, lies, and videotape.” “Apartment Zero” was my first movie with Martin Donovan, and “sex, lies…” was “sex, lies…” and they were on the festival circuit together.
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