Leni Lauritsch Interview: Rubikon
Leni Lauritsch is the director of Rubikon, an intense sci-fi chamber piece about the end of the world. Rubikon follows three astronauts — Hannah, Gavin, and Dmitri — as they observe a toxic fog covering the earth from the relative safety of their space station. Soon, the crew must decide whether to stay in the safety of their ship or journey back to earth in the hopes of saving those who have survived the catastrophe.
Rubikon stars Julia Franz Richter, George Blagden, and Mark Ivanir. Lauritsch also co-wrote the script with writing partner Jessica Lind and story consultant Elisabeth Schmied.
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Screen Rant sat down with Lauritsch to discuss her film, including how she wrote five scripts to get the movie made, what it was like directing her first major feature film, and how being a Trekkie inspired the film.
Screen Rant: In addition to directing Rubikon, you also co-wrote the story. Can you talk a bit about how Rubikon went from the idea stage to what we ended up seeing in the final film?
Leni Lauritsch: That is a long answer. It was actually a five years process where the first three years were just writing and getting it funded, which is also very, very hard here in Austria. I mean, it's a little bit easier for us because we don't have to find private investors or anything. We have like this funding system, where there's like a budget from the taxpayer, and there was a jury, and they select the projects, and they were all I think super intrigued by something like this. It was new, it was doable, even though it was costly. I also think a woman doing sci-fi was also what they were looking for. And that also had this thing about this balance between being art and
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