65 is set to hit theaters this weekend, and we still haven't seen a single review or social media reaction (which is somewhat worrying). Even so, the high-concept sci-fi action movie has everyone intrigued, and there has been a lot of speculation about what's actually going on with the prehistoric setting.
Based on what we've seen from the trailers, it seemed like astronaut Mills (Adam Driver) must have somehow travelled back in time and landed on Earth 65 million years in the past, but the Star Wars actor has now debunked that theory during an interview with Digital Spy.
"There's no time travel, but telling a world that existed parallel 65 million years ago, it seemed like a really big concept movie with just enough room to do something emotional and family-oriented about two people who had lost each other," Driver tells the site.
A relatively big spoiler there!
So, Mills and his young companion Koa (Arianna Greenblatt) are trapped on some kind of parallel world? Driver didn't elaborate, but did go on to explain what drew him to the project in the first place.
"It's nice to do something big that a lot of people can go to where a major theme about it is that we're all experiencing this thing and come from completely different parts of the world and different times in our lives, and we're having to face this thing that no one is really prepared for. So the metaphor was obvious, but I always liked movies of all sorts of budgets and all sizes – that, to me, is what cinema is. This seemed unique and weird."
We assume someone has seen this movie by now, so we'll be sure to update as soon as those first reactions drop.
"Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills (Driver) and the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive,” reads the synopsis.
65 was written and directed by A Quiet Place scribes Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, who also produced under their recently-formed Beck/Woods banner along with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness director Sam Raimi.