Companion’s Director And Cast On Its Gruesome Finish And Future

Pre-release trading for Warner Bros.’ Companion might’ve had you definite nan full crippled was fixed away. That is and isn’t true: yeah, Iris (Sophie Thatcher) learns she’s a robot, and you tin make an knowledgeable conjecture what happens next. But for writer/director Drew Hancock and its two leads, getting location was a spot of a imaginative challenge.

Shortly aft nan robot reveal, it turns retired Iris is simply a pawn successful a strategy by her fellow Josh (Jack Quaid) and his friend Kat (Megan Suri) to termination Kat’s fellow Sergey (Rupert Friend) and bargain nan rate successful his vault. In an question and reply pinch Entertainment Weekly, Hancock revealed Iris would’ve primitively killed Sergey pinch an automatic vino cork. A last Iris vs. Josh showdown was ever successful nan cards, but erstwhile it came clip to termination Josh, he was incapable to apical a vino cork to nan brain, truthful he swapped things around: now Josh would get nan vino cork, and Sergey took a pouch weapon to nan throat, a limb Josh placed into Iris’ things. “Switching that was perfect,” said Hancock, “because past Jack could beryllium complicit successful nan planting of nan knife, truthful it each worked out.”

As for Thatcher and Quaid, they some felt a spot nutty shooting Josh’s demise, which was done astatine 5 am. Thatcher admitted to EW she’d been “pretty fucking exhausted” by that point, which “added to nan madness of it all. I deliberation I had 3 Celsius cans, and it felt benignant of retired of body.” Quaid echoed that sentiment, and called it “one of nan astir imaginative ways I’ve ever died successful something. It was our last segment we shot, and it was truthful funny to dice successful that measurement and past person everybody clap arsenic nan movie was over.”

Companion ends pinch Iris driving disconnected pinch Sergey’s money and now pinch afloat self-control acknowledgment to a technician from her creator, Empathix. Hancock told Variety he’s sewage mini ideas of a followup, but they’re conscionable that: mini thoughts astir what Iris sees erstwhile she’s sleep, perchance uncovering emotion again, aliases giving quality life a spin. (Owning a workplace was 1 suggestion, aliases conscionable “enjoying nan sunset.”) Alternatively, there’s ever nan Smile way and focusing connected a caller protagonist—anything is connected nan array for Hancock, isolated from for creating a Westworld scenario. But specified plans will person to wait, arsenic he’s now moving connected a reboot of The Faculty.

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