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Scott Derickson’s ‘The Gorge’ Test-Screening Reaction …

November 16, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Scott Derickson’s “The Gorge,” being billed as an action movie, stars Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sigourney Weaver. The film will be released on Apple TV+ in 2024. Here are plot details:

Two top marksmen (Teller and Taylor-Joy) must guard the west and east side of a gigantic gorge deep in a European forest for an entire year and are in charge of assuring nothing comes out, no questions asked. After a whirlwind courtship develops between the two during that period and after one of them finds themselves plunged into the depths below (and the other one soon following to rescue them) they begin to uncover the secrets of the project and must fight for survival to make it out

“The Gorge” had a test screening last month. I’ve gathered up a reaction from one of our more trusted dispatchers. Suffice to say, he thought the movie was a total dud:

Incredibly generic even for the potential of its premise that attempts to mash genres. Miles teller and Anya Taylor joy lack any chemistry to make their sudden romance palpable, and it’s annoying how she has to do another Russian accent, yet again; it’s so bad, and what a waste of Sigourney Weaver. There is a bigger scope than any of his previous efforts outside of Doctor Strange here but it goes at its action horror concept just the same as those. Kudos for having practical sets and a Reznor/Ross score promised for the finished product, according to the credits. Feels very much like what this writer has done before (“The Tomorrow War”) and proves again why Derrickson is better at working with smaller budgets and creative leeway.

Derrickson is coming off “The Black Phone,” a very successful low-budget horror film that definitely upped his stock. His credits also include “Doctor Strange,” “Sinister,” “Deliver Us From Evil” and “The Exorcism of Emily Rose.”

Zach Dean's screenplay was on 2021’s "Black List" of the most-liked unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Filming on “The Gorge” began in March 2023 in London, with production occurring at Warner Bros. Studios.

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