65 directors explain the movie's delayed release and break down their favorite Adam Driver scenes
Warning! Below contains spoilers for 65. Do not proceed if you don’t want to know scene specifics.
Now that 65 is out in the world, we saved some of our conversation with writer/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods to dive into some specific sequences of meaning that the two agree helped elevate the final film, and the emotional story they were trying to tell. First up, there’s the topic of the long period between production and release, which ended up being two full years.
65 was shot on location in late 2020 and early 2021, and was initially due out for release in May 2022. However, Beck and Woods say the delays allowed them the luxury of a particularly expanded post-production period. When asked what that time afforded them in terms of shaping the film, Beck says it gave them a necessary runway for the VFX.
"There was a world where this movie could come out earlier, but the visual effects would be 60% of what they are. And Sony and us were like, 'No,'" Beck says. "That can never be the end goal. And then the other thing that we constantly are trying to build in is schedules where you shoot the movie, and then you react to it. Then you're in the luxury of, 'Okay, we need this emotional beat here, or this suspense beat there.'" They were able to evaluate and call the actors back in for additional photography shot in Ireland. "Some of those scenes are our personal favorites in the film now," Beck admits.
He cites a specific scene in the second act where Mills and Koa are still at odds and she just suffers a traumatic dinosaur attack. "He's trying a tactic to break her out of the shell-shocked nature that she's in and he starts to whistle, which is an echo back to what he was teaching his daughter before he had to
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