Sam Raimi-Produced ‘65’ Starring Adam Driver Gets A 2022 Release Date
Adam Driveris going to be all over our screens next year. TheStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkeractor remains supremely busy, with projects lined up withNoah Baumbach,Ridley Scott, and more. And one of his many films, a sci-fi thriller titled65from the writers ofA Quiet Place, is set to come out next summer.
Deadline reports that Sony Pictures has set a summer 2022 release date for65, a sci-fi thriller starring Adam Driver andAriana Greenblattthat hails fromScott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers of the 2018 hitA Quiet Place. Sony has set the theatrical65release date forMay 13, 2022.
The plot is still frustratingly under wraps, though we know the movie is a sci-fi thriller and thatSam Raimiis producing. This film marks a reunion for Beck and Woods with Raimi, after the pair wrote and directed and episode of Raimi’s Quibi series50 States of Frightlast year. Let’s hope that65has a better fate than that series (RIP Quibi).
Deborah Liebling and Zainab Azizi also produce65alongside, Beck, Woods and Raimi. Doug Merrifield is the executive producer.
It’s very difficult to write about a movie when we know as little about it as we do, but despite the lack of information, there’s enough reason to be excited for65. Adam Driver is one of the most exciting and versatile actors working today, choosing projects that challenge and inspire the audience — and often, earn him awards buzz. But he works primarily in the arthouse drama field, apart from an occasional stint inStar Wars, which already makes65an outlier. It’s a sci-fi thriller, which makes it the rare time in which Driver will lead a genre film that’s notStar Wars(and he really wasn’t the lead in that). And when you’ve got Raimi producing and Beck and Woods writing, you’ve got the potential for something great, or at least something interesting.
With Sony setting the film for a May release, it speaks to a trust that the film will do well at the beginning of the summer movie season. Deadline notes that if plans hold steady — barring any release date reshuffles courtesy of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic —65would open against an untitled Blumhouse project from Universal. There are no other wide openers set for August 01, 2025. Though we can likely expect more, as the summer movie season begins in earnest in May, and more studios will be rolling out the films that managed to get shot during the pandemic.
