65 trailer: Adam Driver shoots a dinosaur with a space gun
Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, and some dinos star in the new film from Sam Raimi and the writers of A Quiet Place
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The trailer for 65, the new sci-fi action film from writer-director team Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, takes a minute to get to the actual premise. We get lots of shots of Adam Driver as a downed space pilot, searching a mysterious planet for survivors of a disastrous crash landing. Lots of portentous music, scary shadows, a little heartwarming “bonding with a kid” stuff.
Then, boom: Dinosaur.
So, yeah: This is a movie about Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs with space weapons. (Including a space gun and some space grenades, plus some other equipment presumably salvaged from the Aliens Memorial Space Weaponry Storage Locker.) And, hey: Why the hell not? Driver has the kind of gravitas that can lend at least a little emotional weight to pretty much any premise, no matter how dopey, and dinosaurs remain, in our personal rankings, some of the most interesting things to fire a space gun at in all of film. (Scary enough to justify killing! Lots of sizes to work with! Thick hide for warding off space ammunition, thus avoiding boring and easy kills!)
Driver co-stars in the film with Ariana Greenblatt (who co-starred in Disney series Stuck In The Middle a few years back), playing the only other survivor of a crash that apparently took place on Earth 65 million years ago. (Hence the title of the film.) It’s not clear if the pair are time travelers, or from some very human-ish civilation from the far distant past. (Maybe Adam Drivers are like crabs, and evolution throughout the galaxy trends toward producing them.) Produced by Sam Raimi, and with its writers listing surprise hit A Quiet Place on their resumés, the film is heading for a theatrical release next year, rather than the streaming fate that almost every other mid-budget action or sci-fi movie seems fated to suffer these days. 65 arrives in theaters on March 10, 2023.
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“What really killed the dinosaurs?”
“ME!”
They could have taken this opportunity to put feathers on the dinosaurs so it didn’t look like a Jurassic Park ripoff. We’ve already seen people protect kids from dinosaurs without a gun, so seeing the same thing with a gun seems lame.
This feels like a Jurassic Park treatment pitched by Sam Raimi 10 years ago, and they passed, so he said, “Fine, I’ll make it myself.”
Sooo, they’re saving the blackjack and hookers for the Red Band trailer, I guess?
It’s a LASER gun, you philistine. It’s a totally new kind of thing.
It’s not a laser gun, it’s clearly shown firing discrete projectiles. Perhaps they are plasma or something, but they didn’t look like it. I like the aesthetic as an energy weapon, not as much as a railgun, and not a whole lot as a firearm. Having big light-up parts on any kind of gun is always dumb, though.
The last Jurrassic Park movie DID have dinosaurs with feathers though!
And they were FABULOUS!!!
I, for one, would just like to see dinosaurs without all the shrink-wrapping.* Give me a T-Rex with a nice plump turkey-style breast!*https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/dinosaurs-and-the-anti-shrink-wrapping-revolution/
Actual video evidence that T Rex was, in fact, adorned with feathers.When is Hollywood gonna catch up?
Guess community college acting classes paid off!
I’ll be there in the theater as he runs out of ammo, shrugs, and pulls out a lightsaber. Jedi Spacemen vs Dinosaurs, the matchup we all have wanted to see ever since Boba Fett showed up in the Holiday Special.
Ok, now I’m moistening…I mean listening.
I mean…it’s set long ago. And if the humans aren’t time travelers, then they’re from far, far away.
So were the Star Wars.
What if it’s a Sith dinosaur?
Well, they had a Darth Tyrannus.
idk, I’m in the rare group that liked Jurassic World (but also in the not-rare group that hated the following two). If this is a fun, good-ish action movie, it could make up for how terrible Dominion was.
No?
Ok?
If it makes its way to a streaming service I subscribe to I’ll certainly be watching this probably on a weekend afternoon.
Here’s the pitch meeting:”Its like Jurassic park, but in space… Space Jurassic Park…” “Sold.”
I just hope it ends with the KT extinction event, since setting it any other number of millions of years in the past wouldn’t have had the opportunity.
Chekhov’s asteroid
The whole “My ship was hit by an asteroid” thing has a real “Who put that tree there” energy. Asteroids don’t hit ships, they just chill out in space. If your ship and asteroid collide, it’s your fault. Or, since I guess the ship was on autopilot, maybe it’s actually a SpaceX rocket.
Asteroids don’t hit ships, they just chill out in space. If your ship and asteroid collide, it’s your fault.
Ah, but technically I think it’s what we call an “undocumented asteroid”.
If only people would donate to my super PAC to build a space wall!
There’s literally a meteor shower in the trailer that Driver is trying to out run
including an uncharted one which he may have knocked off course, good job Driver, just fucking fantastic planet-extincting
I hear John Oliver auditioned for the role of the planet that Driver just absolutely tears asunder.
Big Adric in “Earthshock”energy
Got to admire his pluck.
It didn’t look like he was trying to outrun it, just that the ship autopiloted into an asteroid field and he was trying to get out.(I mean, how the hell is an asteroid field moving faster than an interstellar vessel?)
So is this supposed to be how humans got to Earth or is it a time travel story?
Well, it starts with Adam Driver in a hot tub with John Cusack…
Sploosh.
A tall, giant blue-tinted humanoid figure stands over the edge of a massive waterfall. He disrobes, and hesitantly drinks a mysterious substance from a ceremonial cup. Almost instantly, he starts convulsing, his body physically decomposing and breaking down. His dissolved corpse tumbles into the waters below, and we begin to see the building blocks of life form at a cellular level. Suddenly, these strands come undone, washed away by a yellow flash. We pan up to see Adam Driver’s character, who is pissing in the water. “Ahh, that feels good” he says.
So is this supposed to be how humans got to Earth
Reminds me of the original Battlestar Galactica, where Lorne Greene was named Adama …which was a complete coincidence!
The rough plan, talked about in sf circles at the time, was to get them to Earth and what a surprise, it was a long time ago! Also, what a surprise, everyone gets killed on landing except for him and some girl named Eva!
Lorne Greene was 65 during BG…I feel like they were gambling a bit.Also, one of his daughters is married to Sam Raimi. That’s a coincidence.
SPOILER ALERT: Adam Driver is Xenu.
I don’t know if this will be good at all, but there’s a part of me that’s always glad when a seemingly too-serious “ACTOR!” does an incredibly dopey looking sci-fi movie and just tries to sell the hell out of it.
You’re talking about Greenblatt, right?
YES.
It’s Sam Raimi so I’ll definitely see it but it’s Adam Driver so I’ll probably be pretty annoyed about it but it’s got dinosaurs so it’ll probably be at least kinda fun? I’m super conflicted on this one…
What’s your issue with Adam Driver, of all people? And of all the things to be skeptical about in this trailer?
Adam Driver shoots a dinosaur with a space gun – And John Oliver creams his knickers!
Including a space gun and some space grenades, plus some other equipment
. . . ahem . . .space equipment!
Counterpoint: Adam Driver sucks and renders anything he is in completely unwatchable.
“Adam Driver shoots a dinosaur with a space gun”You son of a bitch, I’m in.
Hmmm.Adam w/35 passengers on exploration mission. Well, it probably has to be FTL travel; so maybe some wormhole or something…and they get thrown back 65 million years?But that’s only make sense if they were coming from somewhere other than Earth?! I get that maybe using star charting, he might not know were he is because he does not know he is 65 million years in the past…But then the Sun and the planets would still be the same?
It would look more like an uncharted system that had a similar star and set of planetary bodies to our own. But of course it couldn’t be our own, since the stars are unfamiliar and there are zero EM emissions from Earth, Mars or any of the other places in the solar system that humans would be living.
But the moon would look pretty similar.
Earth’s moon would, but if the navigation systems don’t recognize the solar system’s position as a whole, they’re not necessarily going to use one planet with it’s moon – even one in the Goldilocks zone – as a definitive reference point if there are a lot of other factors that are wrong. And since, to the best of my knowledge, there’s a lot we don’t know about the rest of the solar system, one or more of the gas giants could have the wrong number of moons.Though this does seem like it would be a little more in-depth than a movie about crashing a spaceship and shooting dinosaurs would be inclined to go.
I was thinking more about Driver standing on the planet and looking up and seeing the moon. Not so much the navigation computer.
This feels like an Asylum movie with an actual budget.
So Pitch Black meets Jurassic Park? Sure, why not. There are worse ideas.
Here’s one:
Lethal Weapon meets The Whale
That wasn’t a challenge.
Ok, how ‘bout The Towering Inferno meets Die Hard meets the popular board game Jenga?
Lotta Jenga talk on the AVC boards today. I would think any Towering Inferno-related plot would include an element of Jenga. So it’s really just Die Hard in a burning building. Which I’m also down for.
A time traveler unlucky enough to find themselves on Earth 65 million years ago would be lucky to live an hour, if that. But Adam Driver and space guns and dinosaurs, sure. I’m in.