Warning: Some SPOILERS lie ahead for The Lost City
Sandra Bullock is back in action with the adventure romantic-comedy The Lost City. The film stars Bullock as a reclusive adventure novelist who is kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire to help him find a priceless artifact in the titular city, leading her dimwitted cover model to set after them in the hopes of saving her.
The romcom saw a healthy box office as the world returned to normal after the pandemic, and now it is experiencing new life on Paramount+ before it finally arrives in physical form when the 4K, Blu-ray and DVD versions release on July 26.
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Ahead of the film's digital release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with co-writers and directors, Adam and Aaron Nee, to discuss The Lost City. They shared the story developing Brad Pitt's hilarious cameo and mid-credits scene, discussed their Masters of the Universe movie, and more.
Screen Rant: I'm excited to talk about The Lost City, it was quite a fun ride from start to finish. This, of course, wasn't your first time behind the camera for a feature-length film, but this was a script that had been kicked around for quite a while trying to get made. What was it about it that really interested you both?
Aaron Nee: I think there are a couple parts to that answer. One is that this tapped into things that resonated with our film experience growing up, those echoes of classic adventure films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Romancing the Stone. Those things are very appealing to us, because those were formative films for us. But it was also just the right time for this to come around, when we saw this script, it was October of 2020, the
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