Pre-release advertising for Warner Bros.’ Companion may’ve had you sure the complete recreation was given away. That is and isn’t true: yeah, Iris (Sophie Thatcher) learns she’s a robotic, and you can also make an informed guess what occurs subsequent. But for author/director Drew Hancock and its two leads, getting there was a little bit of a artistic problem.
Shortly after the robotic reveal, it seems Iris is a pawn in a scheme by her boyfriend Josh (Jack Quaid) and his good friend Kat (Megan Suri) to kill Kat’s boyfriend Sergey (Rupert Friend) and steal the money in his vault. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hancock revealed Iris would’ve initially killed Sergey with an automated wine cork. A closing Iris vs. Josh showdown was at all times within the playing cards, however when it got here time to kill Josh, he was unable to high a wine cork to the mind, so he swapped issues round: now Josh would get the wine cork, and Sergey took a pocket knife to the throat, a weapon Josh positioned into Iris’ issues. “Switching that was perfect,” mentioned Hancock, “because then Jack could be complicit in the planting of the knife, so it all worked out.”
As for Thatcher and Quaid, they each felt a bit nutty taking pictures Josh’s demise, which was carried out at 5 am. Thatcher admitted to EW she’d been “pretty fucking exhausted” by that time, which “added to the madness of it all. I think I had three Celsius cans, and it felt kind of out of body.” Quaid echoed that sentiment, and known as it “one of the most creative ways I’ve ever died in something. It was our final scene we shot, and it was so funny to die in that way and then have everybody clap as the movie was over.”
Companion ends with Iris driving off with Sergey’s cash and now with full self-control because of a technician from her creator, Empathix. Hancock advised Variety he’s acquired tiny concepts of a followup, however they’re simply that: small ideas about what Iris sees when she’s sleep, doubtlessly discovering love once more, or giving human life a spin. (Owning a farm was one suggestion, or simply “enjoying the sunset.”) Alternatively, there’s at all times the Smile route and focusing on a brand new protagonist—something is on the desk for Hancock, aside from making a Westworld state of affairs. But such plans should wait, as he’s now working on a reboot of The Faculty.
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