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Watch Three New Clips From William Eubank’s THE SIGNAL
Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, and Laurence Fishburne star in Will Eubank’s new thriller THE SIGNAL, a Focus Features release. Check out the brand new clips below.
Nic (Brenton Thwaites of The Giver and Maleficent), Haley (Olivia Cooke of Bates Motel), and Jonah (Beau Knapp of Super 8) are three college students pondering the future. Haley is relocating for a year, and her devoted boyfriend Nic and his pal Jonah are helping in the cross-country move.
But their road trip across the Southwest experiences a detour: the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. Nic and Jonah have piqued this mysterious hacker’s interest, and vice versa. The trail heats up, provocations are traded online, and the trio find themselves drawn to an isolated area. Night falls, contact is made, and suddenly everything goes dark.
When Nic regains consciousness, he is in a waking nightmare. His friends are nowhere to be seen, but he is determined to locate them – in whatever form they may still be alive. His only lead is the man who now meticulously interrogates him, Dr. Wallace Damon (Academy Award nominee Laurence Fishburne). Damon voices concern for Nic’s safety, and tries to evaluate.
THE SIGNAL is produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Tyler Davidson & written by William Eubank & Carlyle Eubank and David Frigerio.
In a recent interview, director/co-screenwriter William Eubank was asked if there were there any low-budget or low-fi sci-fi films of more recent vintage that inspired him such as PI – Darren Aronofsky’s first movie – or Christopher Nolan’s MEMENTO?
In terms of challenge-the-mind movies, Eubank said, “PI I always think about, because I love the fact that it’s a mind-twister that occurs mainly in a room. MEMENTO is a good reference but I never really thought about it while doing THE SIGNAL. I do tend to think about small sci-fi a lot, like Duncan Jones’ MOON; stories where you’re forced to create a story that starts within a room and then break out after that, having the walls evaporate because you’re so concerned about what’s going on with the characters. THE SIGNAL is different in that it starts out in the open and then pretty quickly goes somewhere else; we’re forcing the audience to be detained with Nic. The character goes from freedom to imprisonment. I thought about Vincenzo Natali’s CUBE – and any movie that puts a character, where they don’t understand what’s going on, into containment.”
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Nic, Haley and Jonah are not isolated occurrences.
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and 23 other cities will encounter THE SIGNAL on June 13th.
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