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‘The Draw’ Trailer – One Game Decides Everything in Dystopian Sci-Fi Thriller
In an oppressive world where free will is becoming a thing of the past, The Draw offers a chilling look at humanity’s potential future.
The UK dystopian sci-fi thriller is on Digital today via Electric Entertainment. Watch the trailer below.
The Draw is set against the backdrop of a politically motivated game show in which contestants are hunted as a form of entertainment. In a world where reality is controlled and the past is illegal, one game decides everything.
Alec, an awkward dreamer, works in the local avatar store where customers can design their idealized real-life persona; a symbol of the EyeLight based technological revolution that Alec passionately resists.
His isolation is invaded by Jade, an equally rebellious figure who has learned to navigate the system more strategically than Alec. As their relationship deepens, they become connected to the values of a forgotten past that could cost them to lose everything.
Ryan Gage (The Hobbit), Lara Lemon (“Insomnia”), Rozelle Gemma, Samuel Clemens, Sanjeev Kohli (“Dept. Q”), and Marie Everett star.
Writer-director Tom Ruddock makes his feature debut on the project. Shelley Ruddock produces via View 35 Films.
“As technology continues to evolve at an astonishing pace, it compels us to imagine the future through the lens of robotics and artificial intelligence. Both thrilling and unsettling, this film delivers exactly what fans of the genre crave — an experience that is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining,” praised filmmaker Dean Devlin (Geostorm, Bad Samaritan).
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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