Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers on the whole of the intrigue of “Companion”, now playing in theaters.
The science fiction horror film “Companion” charmed criticism and the public during its opening weekend. The winding thriller has many surprises in store – especially during the third law – which require post -deposit analysis. Fortunately, Variety Asked the scriptwriter-director Drew Hancock to break the last minutes of the film, while sharing his idea for a potential suite.
To summarize the film, a young couple – Iris (Sophie Thatcher) and Josh (Jack Quaid) – is traveling with friends when Iris is almost raped by another man, Sergey (played by Rupert Friend). It leads to learning that she is not human but rather a robot girlfriend – Josh’s literal property. She also discovers that Josh and some members of the group of friends planned to steal millions of people from Sergey and accuse him of everything. For the rest of the film, Iris tries to escape Josh and find his agency. In the end, Iris has a battle with Josh and improves it by stabbing it with an electronic open-vinting. Although a part of her flesh was burned earlier in the film, leaving an exposed robot arm, she takes a car and the silver stolen and goes to the great stranger.
Hancock broke his unique writing method while describing how he created the end of the “companion”.
“So, the way I write is that I generally do not describe the whole film, but I have to describe at least the first half,” he said. “I need to have a roadmap for half the trip. I wrote enough to know that the ends are still changing and you always find a third act while you write. So you waste your time turning your wheels if you think you have the end at first, because once you start writing and understanding the voices of these characters, how they speak and how they interact, there is something Magic to find a new way to link it all together while you discover the story.
“So I knew that there would probably be a kind of final confrontation,” he continues. “I knew that Jack would be the last standing man, and Iris would win. I did not know the mechanics of that. So I had a finely detailed outline for the first half, then I had a rough, “Maybe it’s okay here, maybe it does, maybe we are finishing here?” And I wrote half the film, then I just said to myself: “Ok, you can’t write anything else. Stop and describe the second half using the ingredients of everything that has been put in place now.
“I spent a month doing this third act, just to make sure I wrote to something,” he continues. “I find that there are these films of flows of consciousness that resemble:` `Oh, I do not know in which direction this film is going, because I have the impression that the writer is probably also in some sort of catching up. They are really fun, but then you arrive at the third act, and you arrive at a point where you say to yourself: “Ok, you did not know how you were going to attach it all, so you just slap something together. ‘ I wanted the end to intentionality and felt satisfactory, so I spent a month falling out. Finish it. “”
Hancock also explained the Mi-Credits scene, in which Iris agitates another version of herself using her robot hand, leaving the other confused iris and the iris that we know smiling.
“I wanted to do a teasing just to build the world a little more,” he says. “We haven’t put in place how finely are these cut characters?” Are there five faces to choose? Or could Josh build a woman from zero? This allows people to know that there are probably thousands and thousands and thousands of robots that have the face of Iris. This is the beginning of perhaps … I did not want it to be like a robot revolution, because I do not want to tell this story, but it is the beginning of a story that could grow. »»
Sophie Thatcher and Drew Hancock shot “Companion”.
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Although Hancock is already busy on his next major project, given that he was announced this week, he signed to write a restart of “the faculty”, he has ideas about what a series of “could look like” Companion ”.
“I have small seeds of ideas,” he says. “I think,” Ok, it would be cool … What does she see when she is asleep? ” Because she will have to have the mode of rest at some point. Long live in this grocery store and there is a cute meeting every time it falls asleep? It may be a way of bringing the character of Jack. Just small ideas like that.
“Regarding the story, because I feel like I have told my version of the story, I would just like to step back and make the kind of” extraterrestrial “/” extraterrestrial “and lead Someone else, ”he continues. “” Where do you see it going? ” If I had my druthers, if I Following up on “Companion”, it would just be a blow of her on the side of the road, cutting her follow -up chip, then cutting a farm with a few million dollars. You just see its gardening and prepare a meal, and throw this meal because it cannot enjoy it. But she does all these very human things: watching a sunset with a glass of wine, but not being able to drink it, and just scenes like that for two hours. This is the future I want for Iris. I want her to appreciate the sunset. That’s it.
“I understand that Warner Bros. would probably not be interested in this version,” he said, laughing. “So I’m not going to push him.” But I would be very interested to see a new version of the story without being like “Westworld”. I am not interested in knowing more about Empathix. I would be more interested in knowing where Iris go and how she survives. I mean, she lives 15 years in the future and leads to a gas car. She will lack gas. There are no service stations, I’m sure, in 15 years. It will therefore be immediately welcomed with obstacles that can be fun to play. »»