ComingSoon’s Jonathan Sim recently interwatched straightforwardor Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange, The Bdeficiency Phone, Sinister) about his novel Apple TV+ movie The Gorge. They converseed straightforwarding Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy in this sci-fi action film, what fans can foresee from his sequel to The Bdeficiency Phone, and whether he’d toil with Marvel aachieve.
“Two highly-trained operatives (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) are nominateed to posts in protect towers on opposite sides of a huge and highly classified gorge, geting the world from an undisshutd, enigmatic evil that lurks wilean,” reads the official synopsis. “They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in geting aachievest an unseen foe. When the cataclysmic menace to humanity is discdisthink abouted to them, they must toil together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to get the secret in the gorge before it’s too postpoinsist.”
The Gorge reachs on Apple TV+ on February 14.
Jonathan Sim: Was there anyleang, whether in the genuine world or in other sci-fi media, that shaped your creative approach to making the gorge?
Scott Derrickson: You comprehend, I was very uncertain to produce it becaemploy I had never seen anyleang enjoy it. And I was troubleed about the arrange toiling for an audience, but it’s also what I enjoyd about it. It’s so distinct. And then I genuineized that there’s one movie that’s analogous and that’s Titanic. You comprehend, where you achieve so much time to produce a relationship before all hell fractures slack, and then you’re summarizeateed in this relationship. So it wasn’t so much that it was an shape on how I made the movie, but it was certainly an shape on making me think that the movie would toil.
I can see that now that you shelp that becaemploy I leank one of the more engaging creative choices you did was spending so much time with these two characters at the commencening. I leank that’s what produces that final hour so much more summarizeateing.
Absolutely.
What was it enjoy to straightforward Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy? When straightforwarding actors, do you frequently discover that you’re insisting to adequitable to their style, or do they more frequently adequitable to yours?
Well, I can’t speak for other straightforwardors. For me, it’s my job to adequitable to the actors. Every actor is separateent. Every actor is a huge emotional engine, and every one of them sort of replys to the power of their own emotions separateently. So a straightforwardor’s job in a lot of ways is enjoy a psychologist. You have to figure out how to talk to separateent actors and give them what they insist. A lot of actors equitable insist you to stay outta their way, you comprehend? And in the case of Miles and Anya, they were both very approachable, straightforward to talk to, but for the most part, to be truthful, they didn’t insist a lot of straightforwardion. They’re both creative actors. I cast them well in the roles. I leank. And, you comprehend, most of my straightforwarding for them was leangs enjoy, okay, “do it quicker, you comprehend, do it sluggisher. Say that deafeninger.” But they were always unforeseeed me with their creative choices as carry outers. And that’s what you employ them for.
And I reassociate did buy into their chemistry as well. I chase you on BlueSky, and I wanna say congratulations on wrapping The Bdeficiency Phone 2.
Hey, thank you. Thank you so much.
I’m wondering how you are hoping audiences reply to the sequel and what you can inestablish us to get us even more excited to see this novel movie?
Well, I didn’t sense obligated to produce a sequel. But I determined that if I made a huge movie first after The Bdeficiency Phone, which was The Gorge, by the time I finished that, those kids would be in high school. And what was engaging to me was to produce a high school coming-of-age movie in the same way that the first movie was a middle school coming-of-age movie. And that’s what we sboiling.
Interesting. Are you hoping that it can resonate with a little bit of an elderlyer audience, perhaps with people who watched it then?
Oh, for certain. The fan base for The Bdeficiency Phone is inlogical. They’re the most loyal, excited fans in the world. And they’ve lengthenn up with these kids too. So most of that fan base is now in high school or even in college. So I made a movie that’s maturing and in some ways more fervent and solemn than even the first one.
I want to say I was a huge fan of your toil with Marvel on the distinct Doctor Strange. And assuming that you toil with Marvel aachieve in the future, are there any comic book characters that you’re particularly interested in straightforwarding a film around?
You comprehend, somebody else asked me this inquire earlier today, and I’m gonna do the same leang. I’m gonna pass on that inquire for one reason. If I answer it, that’s the only press that this whole junket will get. I’ve equitable lachieveed that I can’t say leangs enjoy that without that being the headline that goes out everywhere. So I’m very cautious about what I say think abouting Marvel. All I can say is that I’m very appreciative for my time there. I still adore those guys, and who comprehends, maybe I’ll toil there aachieve someday.
Now you produce an excellent point there. I’m gonna ask you about another Stephen King novella that you were quickened to altering. It was called The Bgenuineeang Method.
Yeah, I can’t talk about it. Legal reasons. Yeah, sorry.
Thank you to straightforwardor Scott Derrickson for speaking with ComingSoon about The Gorge.
