‘Lost’ Filmmaker Reveals Twists And Turns In Sony Pictures’ Teen Tech Thriller

in Lost. The computer never takes its eyes off the action as the audience tries to solve this clever puzzle through an always-on view. Swiping left, swiping right, sometimes in the absence of anyone, the computer is watching a story about itself as the hero. That’s the genius of this film, producer Sev Ohanian told me in a recently released extensive interview with Sony Pictures.

With cinematic sensibilities, sweeping twists and a shocking ending, there’s plenty to build on. Lost From others in the horror genre of the screen – including the prequel, the most popular of 2018 look for.

HBO’s Hurricane Raid ((Our Last, Euphoria) As the stars While on vacation in Cartagena, Colombia, a teenage-digital-sleuth must tap into a myriad of technologies to save her mother, who goes missing three thousand miles away.

For fans look forThe film goes on in the same vein – a family member goes missing, a stranger enlists as a helper, there’s some googling and hacking, news on TV, Tik Tok scammers jump in, and the film goes sideways and ends like a wacko. White Lotus 2.

For two hours, a moment does not drag. It’s cheeky, it’s scary, it’s got a lovable performance by Portuguese actor Joaquim de Almeida that deserves its own series. He even locked up HBO’s Ken Ling Industry – and then there’s the alien subplot looming in the background.

AI will play a role in both the film and the plot, and Ohanian shared his thoughts on it with me.

The following is a transcript of our conversation, edited for clarity.

LostIt is a computer screen movie which is releasing on January 20 but only in theatres. for what

You know, it made financial sense to get the first release in theaters. The first movie look forIt was an international hit, grossing $75 million in theaters, and $20 million in Korea alone. Also, the film is rehearsed in a communal setting. As a filmmaker, I always ask the studio to save me a seat at the screening because I want to see what the audience feels – holding on to their seats, the slow dread, the applause. There is no substitute for that.

Any plan to bring Lost To leave?

yes, Lost It will finally be released on home media and we will be putting a lot into the world building to add replayability for fans with easter eggs. in the back look forwhile The father spends the worst five days of his life trying to find his daughter, and if you look closely behind him, there’s all kinds of information about an impending alien invasion of the planet. That subplot continues in a very unexpected direction Lost.

How much did it cost to make? Lost? They managed to shoot the location in both Los Angeles and Cartagena for less than a million dollars. look for?

No, definitely not under a million, but I wouldn’t say much. We did it very economically, which is one of the attractive things as a franchise. b look for, We were able to get by with less than a million ($880,000) and a very small print and advertising budget.

You and Anesh Chaganti wrote the screenplay for look for, But he turned to your editors Will Merrick and Nick Johnson to write Lost Play screen and direct. why?

In the year In 2019, when we got a call from Sony to do the sequel, Anish and I were busy with other projects. We read the spec script that Will and Nick wrote for Paramount and knew they were great writers. So we wrote a three-page treatise. Lost From start to finish with the major beats, character arcs and twists and gave them to support their script writing and directorial debut, while we were the producers.

Lost Editors Arielle Zakowski and Austin Keeling talk to me about how editing tools with AI features like Adobe Premiere Pro are enabling anyone to achieve a professional level of cinematic polish to their film projects. Do you agree with this?

The technology is great and I’d love to see more original stories come from it, but it’s still hard to make a compelling film in this computer screen format. We spent a lot of time trying to make it new, original, surprising and satisfying, but it remains to be seen whether it can be repeated without the audience getting tired of it.

Does that mean you won’t get a sequel out of it?

Well, we’re working with Warner Bros. Television on a sci-fi called HBO Max. in the future It has some of these elements, so we’ll have to see.

AI has played an interesting role in Lost, not only on the product, but also as a character. What are your thoughts on incorporating ChatGPT into one of your future products?

As far as ChatGPT goes, I love it. In fact, I’ve been feeding all your questions and reading the responses – funny! Fans suggested I take ChatGPT as a catfish – so you never know.

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian follows you on Twitter – is there a connection?

Haha no, even though I sometimes joke that we are cousins, we are not related by race even though we are friends.

What do you have next?

I have a production company called Proximity Media with Ryan and Zinzi Kugler, the producers. Judas and the Black Messiah, Gap Jam 2And soon-to-be-released Creed IIIWe are in talks with Disney+ to do a Wakanda series. Iron heart For the Marvel Cinematic Universe – we look forward to that.

And of course, I am very excited to see how the audience will enjoy it Lost.