65 directors reveal how Adam Driver helped them add heart to their film

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To hear writer/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods tell it, 65 is the movie they’ve been working towards since they were 10-year-olds in Iowa making stop-motion home movies with their Jurassic Park action figures. Starring Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt, 65 is their long gestating, original sci-fi epic featuring rampaging dinosaurs and two humans forced to connect with one another despite their personal losses. 

While 65 could have just been about pitting dinos against almost defenseless humans, Woods exclusively tells SFX/GamesRadar+ that as thematic writers they couldn’t just take the action path. "So we started thinking, 'We're writing a dinosaur movie. The dinosaurs went extinct. That's really sad. There's no dinosaurs, but then out of death grew something special, which is eventually that Earth kept going and civilization started.' This idea of rebirth, oddly, started filtering its way into the movie and the characters."

From that premise came the story of commercial pilot Commander Mills (Driver) and young Koa (Greenblatt), the only two survivors when their ship is hit by an asteroid and crashes onto an uncharted planet. Vulnerable and with few resources – along with a language barrier – the two have to work together to survive despite their uncertainty about one another. 

"We just loved this idea of having what is on the surface this high concept, pulpy, B-movie premise. And then the whole movie stops for like a Terrence Malick scene," Woods says about the intimate story that’s at the heart of the film. "We love doing that ebb and flow. There are the layers of the fun of the premise, but also the almost nonverbal silent film, intimate character moments as well. And that for us was a lot of fun."

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