We first heard about this one last January when Tessa Thompson (Thor: Love and Thunder) and Joseph Gordon Levitt (Inception) were both attached to star, but the project has since gained two new leads, and we now have a first official look at the sophomore feature of Grammy-winning musician and filmmaker Flying Lotus, aka Steven Ellison, via some promo stills.
The images spotlight Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver) as a woman who wakes up on a distant planet to find the rest of the crew of her space station viciously murdered. She has to decide whether to trust the man (Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul)) sent to rescue her. During their investigation into the killings, however, he begins to wonder if she is as innocent as she pretends to be.
"The way his brain works is quite special," Gonzalez says of her director in an interview with EW. "He reminds me a lot of David Fincher, who also started in music videos, as someone who is quite interested in pushing boundaries and not being scared of diving into something. But this movie also required someone who had a really authentic and unique artistic take. We couldn't have been more lucky, because his visual imagery and the way that he spoke to us about the movie really translated to the making of the film. It's a movie that causes the audience to stay engaged consistently. I love movies that require you to keep thinking and trying to figure out what is actually happening."
The premise may not be the most original, but Flying Lotus' 2017 feature debut, Kuso, showed a lot of promise (despite mostly negative reviews), so this should definitely be worth keeping an eye on.
Check out the stills below.
Based on an original screenplay by Jonni Remmler, Ash also stars Iko Uwais (The Raid), Beulah Koale (Hawaii Five-0), and Kate Elliott (Wentworth). District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is on board as an executive producer.
No release date has been announced.
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