After a cataclysmic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he's actually stranded on Earth... 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive.

From writers of A Quiet Place and producer Sam Raimi comes 65, a sci-fi thriller starring Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, and Chloe Coleman. Written and directed by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods and produced by Sam Raimi, Deborah Liebling, and Zainab Azizi. Also produced by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.

About The Film

"We love genre filmmaking - going to a movie theater on a Friday night with a packed audience and seeing a movie that plays us like a piano," says Scott Beck, who, with partner Bryan Woods, writes and directs the new film 65. "Horror, suspense, action, adventure - that's the sweet spot for us. And what we love even more is to combine genre with a heartbeat - characters you really love."

"The stories we love are always cinematic," adds Woods. "It's about the experience of what a movie brings - the visuals, the performances, the music, the marriage of all of these different capacities."

Beck and Woods previously triumphed as part of the writing team of A Quiet Place, which took audiences by storm in 2018. With 65, they take the helm for the first time, and also produce, alongside Sam Raimi, Deborah Liebling, and Zainab Azizi (who heads up Raimi Productions).

"What captivated me the most about 65 is the core of the film, and that is the father-daughter type relationship between Mills and Koa," says Raimi. "Koa is a bold and intelligent young woman who challenges Mills. Together, the pair protect and fight for each other. Even though Mills initially rescues Koa, it's really Koa that saves him. It's a really beautiful tale."

In 65, Adam Driver plays Mills, an interstellar pilot transporting a large group of passengers through space, when an accident kills all of his passengers but one - a young girl named Koa, played by Ariana Greenblatt.

What Mills and Koa don't know is that the planet they have landed on is our own Earth - 65 million years ago. As they begin their epic journey toward their only means of escape, they are hunted by vicious packs of dinosaurs that stalk them across a dangerous landscape.

"The 12-year-olds in us always wanted to write a dinosaur film," says Beck. "True human emotions are coming through the screen in the most powerful way throughout these set pieces."

"The scenes are intense and terrifying," says Liebling. "The tension builds painfully, excruciatingly. It's paid off in these glorious moments, with the pure emotional joy that of the connection that these characters create with each other. It's a really fun ride, a rollercoaster."

Producer Zainab Azizi agrees. "Who doesn't love a great dinosaur film?" she says. "Scott and Bryan found a way to bring that kind of excitement to the screen in a way we haven't seen before."

For Adam Driver, the chance to play a character whose physical battle to survive mirrors his emotional battle was impossible to resist. "Every scale of filmmaking interests me and no filmmaking experience is alike. This movie, 65, particularly seemed like a unique, big swing, because it was dinosaurs, so the scale was big, but it had room for thoughtful characters and big overall themes, while being extremely entertaining. When families go as a group to see the same film in a theatre, it's a special thing to be a part of."

Leading opposite Driver, playing Koa, is Ariana Greenblatt. "Koa is a sweet, innocent, brave, curious girl," she says. "She grows a lot during the movie - she starts out scared, feral, cat-like, jumpy - and towards the end, she finds her courage."

With 65, Greenblatt takes on her biggest role to date - and in a two-hander opposite a two-time Academy Award® nominee. "I was really nervous coming into this project. I felt a lot of pressure because he's incredible - and it was just the two of us," she says. "He's so talented and inspiring. I respect Adam and his work so much. When I tested with him via Zoom, he even had impact through the screen - you could really feel everything he's giving you."

But Greenblatt also says that she didn't let the intimidation get to her. For starters, she knew what to do: "I made sure that I was incredibly prepared every day and fully settled into my character," she says. "But I also told myself that I can do this. No matter how young you are, where you're from, you can do whatever you set your mind to accomplishing. As a young Latina actress, it was important to me to make the most of this incredible role and of this opportunity-for myself and other Latina girls out there."

65 also afforded the young actress an opportunity to perform some of her own stunts, like hanging upside down off a gimbal for more than a minute. "I really loved doing my own stunts! The gimble was awesome, it was like a carnival ride," she says. "But of course, so much goes into being prepared. I had the best stunt coordinators who taught me how to do things safely and also let me in on the tricks of the trade, which was very cool."

About The Filmmaking Team And The Production

Woods and Beck are an ideal match as a team, says Azizi. "They have been best friends since the sixth grade in Iowa," she says. "I interpret them as Scott being the left brain and Bryan being the right brain. They'll look at each other and they don't have to say anything - they know exactly what the other is thinking. They work brilliantly together and balance each other."

"For us, writing and directing are the same thing - it's all storytelling," says Woods.

Paradoxically, Beck says, it's because they are both writing and directing that they are less bound by their own screenplay. "As a director, you can open up to any good idea on set, whether it's from your DP or your VFX Supervisor or one of your actors," says Beck. "You can mix it up, right up in the last moment when you're ready to call 'action.'"

That dynamic is especially evident when working with a talent like Adam Driver, says Woods. "He always has so many great ideas about his character," says Woods. "He really challenged us to think about scenes from the point of view of each of the characters, and filter the scenes through those lenses."

Liebling says that as they did with A Quiet Place, Beck and Woods's approach makes the team unique as filmmakers - delivering movies that feel unique. Their sensibilities allow them to take advance of motion pictures' unique ability to show Driver's expressive face as he portrays a range of emotions that goes beyond words. "It's a different way of telling stories than we typically get on the big screen," says Liebling. "There's very limited dialogue. There are primarily two actors in the movie. And yet it's a very, very tense movie with so much going on."

"It's about all the things cinema does best - visuals, sound, music, performance. We're very inspired by silent filmmaking, and leaning on those basic principles of cinema - using these minimalist tools to tell a story on the most epic scale possible," says Woods.

The other classic lesson that Beck and Woods take is in building suspense. "We had a mantra: 'it's about what you don't see,'" says Beck. "That was very instrumental on A Quiet Place, as it was instrumental as we grew up on movies like Jaws. The whole movie has been built on that mantra - the idea that there's something dangerous and mysterious out there in this environment that Mills and Koa will have to engage with. We're using sound design, we're using the camera, we're using production design to suggest what's out there, and only at the right moment will we startle the audience."

"Scott and Bryan have created some beautiful images - shots I haven't seen a director come up with before," says Liebling. "It's not the way they teach it in film school, with traditional coverage. It transports us into their experience."

The film was shot in the forests of Oregon, including at Golden Falls, giving the filmmakers an epic vista as their backdrop, captured by acclaimed director of photography Salvatore Totino, whose work includes the feature films Everest, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Inferno, and Bird Box, among many other films.

"There are some incredible scenes," says Totino. "It was a challenge - some of the shots were really intricate to do, and we were in locations that aren't easy to work in - trying to bring Technocranes into the forest or the swamp, figuring out how we were going to light this vast area at night in a way that made it seem interesting, but really scary and unknown. We came up with a really good approach, and we got to tell a story in a very visual way - that you don't often get to tell."

"Sal is a magician," says Azizi. "He knows how to shoot with the perfect angle. You can see it in the big scenes, but often, it's the simple, emotional moments that will blow you away as much as the complex shots."

Following the mantra of "it's what you don't see," VFX Supervisor Chris Harvey says that he worked with Totino to hide the dinosaurs until just the proper moment. "Sal did a lot of playing with light, hiding in the shadows, light and dark," says Harvey. "We played with that in the creature design, too - how we animate the dinosaurs and how they move through the shadows."

To design the dinosaurs, Harvey brought in Neville Page, the legendary designer whose resume includes the Avatar, Star Trek, and Tron franchises. "Each of the characters was based somewhat on reality, but then spun with a bit of a horror vibe," says Harvey. "We gave each of his designs a backstory that helps with the character. For example, the big baddie is very emaciated; it's older worn down, scarred from past battles. And that progresses."

About The Cast

Adam Driver (Mills) can currently be seen starring in Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel White Noise. He recently wrapped production on Michael Mann's Ferrari and is currently in production on Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis.

Notably, Driver garnered critical acclaim for his role in Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, for which he received Academy Award®, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild nominations in the category of Best Actor, and also the Best Actor Gotham Award. Additional accolades include his performance in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, in which he co-starred alongside John David Washington, and garnered Academy Award®, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild nominations in the category of Best Supporting Actor.

Film credits include Ridley Scott's The Last Duel; Leos Carax's Annette; Scott Z. Burns' The Report; Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die and Paterson; Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote; Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi; Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky; Martin Scorsese's Silence; Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special; J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Shawn Levy's This Is Where I Leave You, Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories, While We're Young, and Frances Ha; Saverio Costanzo's Hungry Hearts, for which he received the Venice International Film Festival's Volpi Cup; John Curran's Tracks; Ethan and Joel Cohen's Inside Llewyn Davis; Steven Spielberg's Lincoln; and Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar.

Television credits include HBO's critically acclaimed series from Lena Dunham, Girls. For his performance on the show he received three consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He received a fourth Emmy nomination as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his guest-hosting role on Saturday Night Live.

Driver starred in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This directed by Michael Mayer. His performance as Pale earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance in a Leading Role as well as a Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Performance.

Past Broadway credits include Man and Boy (dir. Maria Aitken), opposite Frank Langella, as well as Mrs. Warren's Profession (dir. Doug Hughes) opposite Cherry Jones. Off-Broadway, he starred in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (dir. Sam Gold), which earned him the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor. Prior to that, he took the stage as Louis Ironson in The Signature's revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (dir. Michael Greif).

Driver is a Juilliard graduate and is a former Marine who was with 1/1 Weapons Company at Camp Pendleton, CA. He is also the co-founder of the non-profit Arts in the Armed Forces.

Ariana Greenblatt (Koa) has positioned herself as a young star on the rise. Her latest projects include Greta Gerwig's highly anticipated Barbie, where she stars alongside Margot Robbie. Last year, Greenblatt wrapped the Lionsgate feature adaptation of the popular video game franchise Borderlands for director Eli Roth, in which she appears alongside Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Edgar Ramirez, and Jack Black.

Greenblatt has garnered international recognition for her performance as Young Gamora in Marvel's mega-hit Avengers: Infinity War, and has since gained traction from her roles in the Paramount feature film Love and Monsters opposite Dylan O'Brien and Michael Rooker, as well as the Disney Studios' live action/animated film adaptation of the New York Times-bestselling and Newberry Award-winning book, The One and Only Ivan. There, she plays opposite Bryan Cranston and a voice cast that includes Sam Rockwell, Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren, and Danny DeVito.

Since her film debut in the STX comedy A Bad Mons Christmas in 2017, other credits consist of the Warner Bros. animated feature Scoob, in which she voiced Young Velma; the Netflix sci-fi thriller Awake, opposite Gina Rodriguez; and the Warner Bros. feature In the Heights, directed by Jon M. Chu.

Chloe Coleman (Nevine) is a young American actress born in Los Angeles, California, who by the age of 10 has been blessed to work opposite some of Hollywood's most celebrated talent. Of African, Eastern European, and English descent, Coleman has been named a child performer headed for big-screen stardom on Hollywood Reporter's Young Hollywood List in 2019. Coleman brings to her grounded performances an inexhaustible grit and athletic ability, contagiously good spirits, and a keenly perceptive mind for her age.

Coleman is the eldest daughter to Stephen and Allison Coleman. Her father is an Emmy-nominated camera operator from Norristown, Pennsylvania, and her mother is a four-time Emmy winning television producer and member of the Director's Guild of America. Coleman grew up visiting television and film sets and developed a tremendous curiosity and respect for the overall process and crew involved.

In her first television appearance at age five, Coleman was cast as a ballerina on "Glee." At six years old, director Jean-Marc Vallée selected Coleman for the role of Skye Carlson in HBO's Emmy Award-winning drama series "Big Little Lies." Coleman fell in love with the profession after experiences on "Big Little Lies" allowed her to observe and work with Vallée and a phenomenal cast that made a huge impression on the young actress.

Coleman made her feature film debut when Academy Award®-winning director Tom McCarthy cast her in Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made for Disney+, and subsequently she landed her first leading role in Amazon's original movie My Spy, directed by Peter Segal, in which Coleman leads alongside Dave Bautista. In My Spy, she portrays the highly manipulative Sophie Vale, a 9-year-old schoolgirl who blackmails Bautista into training her to be a spy. Variety ranked My Spy the #3 spot in U.S. Top 30 Most-Watched SVOD Released Movies of 2020, only behind Hamilton and Borat 2. My Spy 2 is currently in development with STX and Amazon Studios, with Bautista and Coleman attached.

Additional film and television credits include the stylized action-thriller Gunpowder Milkshake with Karen Gillan and an awe-inspiring cast; Universal's Marry Me, Coleman's first rom-com, with Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, and two seasons of Greg Daniels' science-fiction comedy Upload for Amazon.

She may currently be seen in James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water; upcoming releases include Paramount and eOne's Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, opposite Chris Pine, Michele Rodriguez, and Hugh Grant, set for release this year. She has also wrapped production on The Pain Hustlers with Emily Blunt and Chris Evans, directed by David Yates.

When not working, Coleman attends a regular school and maintains honor roll status. She enjoys drawing, writing stories, creating animation characters, playing games, and singing on the piano or ukulele. Her key sports are swimming, dance, martial arts, and riding horses. Her younger sister Mia Coleman is also an actress.