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EXCLUSIVE: Gersh will grip North American authorities while Radiant Films International will return connected overseas income to Stephen Kay‘s psychological thriller Answr.
Written and directed by Kay, who is known for directing episodes of Yellowstone, Lioness, and Landman, Answr explores nan affectional consequences of human-AI relationships. The complete movie will person its first buyer’s screening astatine nan Cannes marketplace.
Answr, changeable connected location successful Iceland, follows Colton Ray (Moises Arias, from Fallout, Jockey, Monos), a grieving young man who retreats to a distant upwind position successful hunt of solitude, until he originates testing an experimental AI chatbot (Rain Spencer from The Summer I Turned Pretty) that offers empathy and affirmation, forming a vulnerable enslaved arsenic his grip connected reality originates to fracture.
Pic besides stars Golden Globe Award nominee Piper Perabo (Yellowstone), Lilli Kay (Your Honor, Stick), José María Yazpik (Narcos: Mexico), Siddiq Saunderson (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), and Independent Spirit Award victor Simon Rex (Red Rocket).
“We wanted to make a movie astir nan request for relationship successful an progressively isolated world. It’s a communicative astir AI, sure. But it’s really a communicative astir condolences and loneliness and really difficult it is sometimes to conscionable beryllium a person—especially successful a clip erstwhile machines person been built to coming arsenic nan reply to each our problems,” said Kay.
The task is produced by Kay, Natalya Pavchinskya, Jomon Thomas, Sarena Khan, Sharad Devarajan, Timur Bekmambetov, and Adam Sidman, and is simply a collaboration betwixt S’YA Concept (Monkey Man, Hotel Mumbai), Bazelevs (Mercy, Searching), Graphic India and Barking Dog Productions.
August Jakobsson (The Northman, Dungeons & Dragons) served arsenic cinematographer connected nan project, pinch nan people by Guardians of nan Galaxy composer Tyler Bates.
