Love and Monsters premieres at home - and in select theaters - on October 16th from Paramount Pictures, and takes place seven years after the "Monsterpocalypse." Humanity has been forced to hide underground, but Joel (Dylan O'Brien, The Maze Runner) decides to embark on a mission to reunite with his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick, Iron Fist) after reconnecting with her over the radio. However, with dangerous monsters standing in his way, their reunion isn't going to be easy.
Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) and Ariana Greenblatt (Avengers: Infinity War) are also part of the cast, and we recently caught up with director Michael Matthews to discuss the movie.
We'll bring you that full interview tomorrow, but given what an impact the filmmaker is making with Love and Monsters, it seems inevitable that more big budget blockbusters are in his future. These days, it's hard not to imagine someone like Matthews landing on the radar of Marvel Studios, Warner Bros., or Sony Pictures, but do superheroes actually interest him as a filmmaker?
"That's a good question," he told us last week. "To be honest, nothing specific. It really depends on what the project is and what it's about it. I'm definitely open to that space, but I'm also apprehensive about doing something that might not be quite right for me and I want to make sure I make movies that have got heart and some sort of substance, and I feel like there's a reason to have made them. It just depends on what it is."
"Five Fingers was this African Western that had hardly any English and is not the easiest, relatable watch for a lot of people, but I found that really interesting and loved that. Then, Love and Monsters is leaning much more into the stuff I love like Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, and that sort of thing. I think if I was 15, this would be the movie I would have loved to watch, so it just depends."
"I'm open to any direction and don't want to end up getting too stuck into just very commercial entertainment movies or either side," Matthews continued, making it clear he doesn't want to be pigeonholed as a director moving forward. "It depends, and it's a hard one to answer, but there is no specific character to me right now where I'm like, 'That's what I would love to be doing.'"
That's completely understandable, but it's definitely good to hear that Matthews hasn't completely closed the door on entering the Marvel or DC Universes as some filmmakers tend to. Once you've seen Love and Monsters, we're sure you'll agree that he'd be a great fit for either one of those worlds!
Check out an exclusive clip from Love and Monsters ahead of the movie's release tomorrow: