Scott Derrickson isn’t the director you would typically associate with a movie described as a “high-action, genre-bending love story.” But that was what we first learned about his new film, The Gorge, and was somewhat confirmed by the initial photo featuring stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller, clad in black spy gear looking like they’re about to share an intimate moment. Basically, this is not going to be another straight horror movie from the guy behind Sinister, The Black Phone, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and Doctor Strange.
Then again, why are we surprised? Derrickson is also the filmmaker behind 2008’s sci-fi remake The Day the Earth Stood Still, so he’s more well-rounded than given credit for.
As seen in the new trailer, The Gorge is a little bit of a mystery, a bit sci-fi, a bit horror, and yeah, also a romance. Taylor-Joy and Teller star as elite snipers stationed in watch towers and tasked with protecting the world from a mysterious threat located within a highly-classified gorge.
The film also stars Sigourney Weaver, Sope Dirisu, and William Houston. Derrickson directed from a script by The Tomorrow War writer Zach Dean.
The Gorge hits Apple TV+ on February 14th 2025.
SYNOPSIS: Two highly-trained operatives (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it’s too late.
