Snipers Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Levi (Miles Teller) join forces against a mysterious foe.
SCOTT DERRICKSON DOESN’T make cosy films. For his entire career so far as a director, everything he’s done deals in murky, malevolent material, and does what it says on the tin. Hellraiser: Inferno. The Exorcism Of Emily Rose. Sinister. Even The Black Phone had a spooky, erm, ring to it. So what the hell to make of The Gorge?
What indeed. Having been sent the screenplay, written by Zach Dean (who worked on The Tomorrow War and Fast X), Derrickson had no idea what to expect —and that continued to be the case as he read the whole thing. “It mixes so many genres —I had never read anything quite like it. I couldn’t compare it to anything else.” He immediately started thinking visually. “When I got to the end of the first act, I was very engaged, but I knew that whatever ended up actually being inside the gorge was going to have to be great.”