Good news: cinephiles won’t have to wait long for A24’s mystery sci-fi project. Last week, the tastemaker studio dropped a trailer that featured plenty of haunting imagery, but had zero information about what it actually was. However, eagle-eyed fans have deduced from a still of Sundance short “Toru,” along with pictures of the set, that the short is A24’s project in question. While dreams of a possible Shane Carruth film have been dashed, “Toru” sounds quite intriguing, and A24 has had a good track record with sci-fi in “Ex Machina.”
Directed by Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap, shot by Dp Matt Mitchell (“The Stakelander”) and featuring a score by Brian McComber (“Krisha”), “Toru” is about how “an infant’s life is transformed by a new technology.” The short is fourteen minutes long and in Japanese with English subtitles, featuring the cast of Ai Kiyono, Yasu Suzuki, Tatsuo Ichikawa,...
Directed by Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap, shot by Dp Matt Mitchell (“The Stakelander”) and featuring a score by Brian McComber (“Krisha”), “Toru” is about how “an infant’s life is transformed by a new technology.” The short is fourteen minutes long and in Japanese with English subtitles, featuring the cast of Ai Kiyono, Yasu Suzuki, Tatsuo Ichikawa,...
- 1/17/2017
- by Elizabeth MacLeod
- The Playlist
This past week a mysterious A24 trailer was released for an untitled project. While many believed it to be a new sci-fi film, now, thanks to The Film Stage, we know what the project really is.
According to the site, the feature is actually a Sundance-bound short film called “Toru.” After a reader spotted a still on Sundance’s website that matched the trailer footage, they did some additional digging and found images and information that corresponded with the project.
“Toru” is a 14-minute Japanese short with English subtitles, directed by Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap. The synopsis, courtesy of Wicked Local, is as follows: “With a science fiction undercurrent, ‘Toru’ centers on the story of a baby boy, named Toru, born with a fatal lung condition. As he only has a few days to live Toru’s parents sign him up for a trial experiment that would simulate a...
According to the site, the feature is actually a Sundance-bound short film called “Toru.” After a reader spotted a still on Sundance’s website that matched the trailer footage, they did some additional digging and found images and information that corresponded with the project.
“Toru” is a 14-minute Japanese short with English subtitles, directed by Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap. The synopsis, courtesy of Wicked Local, is as follows: “With a science fiction undercurrent, ‘Toru’ centers on the story of a baby boy, named Toru, born with a fatal lung condition. As he only has a few days to live Toru’s parents sign him up for a trial experiment that would simulate a...
- 1/14/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Earlier this week, A24 dropped a mysterious teaser trailer for what was thought to be a new science-fiction feature film from the company. With its slick near-future design and life-encompassing text overlays, many thought it may signal the return of Upstream Color and Primer director Shane Carruth, but now we’ve found out what this trailer is previewing. It’s not a feature film at all, and it will meet the eyes and ears of an audience very soon.
One of our eagle-eyed readers spotted that a still from the Sundance-bound short Toru that matches with the teaser. We did our own digging and furthermore, snaps from the set correspond with footage from the trailer. Directed by Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap, the synopsis for the short reads “an infant’s life is transformed by a new technology,” which certainly matches up with what this preview entails.
Shot by Dp...
One of our eagle-eyed readers spotted that a still from the Sundance-bound short Toru that matches with the teaser. We did our own digging and furthermore, snaps from the set correspond with footage from the trailer. Directed by Jonathan Minard and Scott Rashap, the synopsis for the short reads “an infant’s life is transformed by a new technology,” which certainly matches up with what this preview entails.
Shot by Dp...
- 1/14/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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