Director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) is back this summer with The End of Oak Street, a mystery box genre movie that’s arriving in theaters August 14 via Warner Bros.
Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor come face-to-face with a monstrous threat in the sci-fi thriller from producer J.J. Abrams, and in case it wasn’t already clear based on the trailer that was recently released, The End of Oak Street is absolutely a DINOSAUR MOVIE.
A handful of new sneak peek images were debuted by Entertainment Weekly this morning, and one of them in particular clearly shows a dinosaur rampaging through suburbia.
“A few years ago, I was walking through our neighborhood in Michigan, just walking down the street, and I was passing by this garage [with a] chain link fence and garbage cans,” director David Robert Mitchell tells Entertainment Weekly. “And I was struck by the image of, like, ‘It’d be really interesting if there was a dinosaur right there.'”
“Just like anybody, the first Jurassic Park movie, I absolutely love,” David Robert Mitchell goes on to explain to Entertainment Weekly. “But for me, my language of dinosaur movies goes back much further. I’d be lying if I say that [Jurassic Park] isn’t a movie that I absolutely love because I do. But I wanted to do something different.”
In the film, “After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.”
The End of Oak Street is set in the early 1980s, we’ve also learned this week.
J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella produce the upcoming film via Bad Robot.
