2024 will not be over but, however Apple TV+ already has its eyes turned towards the long run. The streaming platform has unveiled at the moment the primary trailer for one in all its greatest 2025 titles, The Gorge. The brand new movie is director Scott Derrickson’s extremely anticipated follow-up to his 2022 hit horror film, The Black Cellphone, and it’s shaping as much as be one more intriguing style effort from the filmmaker.
The Gorge stars Anya Taylor-Pleasure and Miles Teller as a pair of elite, extremely skilled snipers from totally different international locations who’re assigned positions in two guard towers that stand on reverse sides of a secret, shadowy gorge containing unknown horrors. When Teller’s Levi asks whether or not his job is to “preserve individuals from going within the gorge,” he’s advised, “No, you’ll want to cease what’s within the gorge from popping out.” In case that wasn’t ominous sufficient, Levi’s army contact, JD (Sope Dirisu), additional informs him, “The gorge is the door to Hell, and we’re standing guard on the gate.”
Whether or not or not we’re meant to take JD actually is unclear, however The Gorge‘s trailer does recommend that there actually are hellish monsters and unseen powers lurking inside its central chasm’s misty depths.
Along with Taylor-Pleasure, Teller, and Dirisu, The Gorge additionally stars William Houston and Sigourney Weaver. It’s based mostly on a screenplay by The Tomorrow Struggle screenwriter Zach Dean. Whereas there are clear components of motion and supernatural horror in The Gorge, too, the movie appears to be like prefer it’ll give Derrickson the prospect to dip his toes right into a style he’s hardly ever explored earlier than: romance.
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Communication between their opposing guard towers could also be forbidden, however The Gorge nonetheless follows Taylor-Pleasure and Teller’s elite operatives as they bond and develop nearer from a distance. Their relationship appears to be like like it’ll in flip not solely be what forces them to face the horrors of their environment head-on, but additionally could also be why they finally have even a small probability at stopping the hazards of the gorge from climbing into the surface world.
Derrickson, who’s finest recognized outdoors of The Black Cellphone for guiding The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister, and 2016’s Physician Unusual, has expertise coping with demonic risks and world-ending stakes onscreen. He’s by no means earlier than tried to mix as many genres collectively in a single movie as he’s in The Gorge, although. Viewers will get to see how properly he’s pulled that trick off when The Gorge premieres February 14, 2025 on Apple TV+.