Just like the SXSW world premiere of The Lost City was a homecoming for Sandra Bullock who lives here down in Austin, it marked a return for brothers Adam and Aaron Nee who jumpstarted their filmmaking careers at cinephile fest with the 2006 movie The Last Romantic.
That pic cost $18K, and their latest SXSW was a fire-breathing Hollywood event movie which cost an estimated $74M. If Saturday night’s premiere of The Lost City was a test screening, then expect this Paramount release to certainly secure box office treasures as the laughs and the applause throughout the movie didn’t cease.While the guys dabbled in Hollywood for a while between acting and Comedy Central pilot directing gigs, their careers were fast-tracked after pitching themselves for The Bumblebee directing job.
Aaron Nee has a knack for VFX and they casted his daughter to star with the yellow Transformer in a short that wound up wowing other studio execs around town.
While the Bumblebee directing job went to Travis Knight, the VFX reel brought the brothers the Power of Greyskull, specifically the helming gig for Mattel’s The Masters of the Universe movie which Sony decided to segue to Netflix.Soon after they landed a meeting with Lost City star/producer Sandra Bullock and the pic’s producer Liza Chasin.
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