Adam Driver’s upcoming sci-fi actioner 65, is the dino-themed Lost in Space-meets-Land of the Lost story of a man leading an expeditionary crew in the far future only to discover that somehow he’s traveled 65 million years back in time to a rough and wild wilderness full of dinosaurs with better armaments than the game warden Muldoon had in Jurassic Park.
Sony just dropped a new trailer for their dino-action adventure on their YouTube channel offering interested movieheads a deeper look at what to expect in the upcoming film created by the writers of the A Quiet Place movies.
The trailer opens with Adam Driver, face in a rictus of pain, as his spaceship hurtles out of the sky and alarms blare. It cuts to him stepping out of the ship in his spacesuit and standing on the wreckage of what was once a serviceable space freighter. “My name is Mills, I was the pilot of this ship,” Driver intones to a little girl named Koa (Ariana Greenblatt). He goes on to explain that he and his cargo of bodies have crash-landed on an uncharted planet, noting oddly how breathable the air is and how the water is potable, unaware of the Twilight Zone-like twist that’s barreling toward him.
Mills and Koa go on and explore their new surroundings, with Mills noting that he doesn’t know where they are but that there’s some form of life. He describes the lifeforms as something alien, being a man so far in the future than even gigantic heaps of dinosaur bones look like space critters to him. A title card comes up that says that “65 Million years ago, Humans Discovered Earth,” which, unless this is secretly a prequel to The Flintstones, might hint at yet another twist coming for viewers. Mills and Koa then try to find shelter while raptors sniff them out.
While they prepare a series of weapons, both futuristic and caveman-level low-tech, Mills says that he is going to try to find them a way home. They escape raptors, a Tyrannosaurus, and pterodactyls as they cross the unforgiving landscape around them. There are many shots of Mills running and gunning through the woods, what looks like a meteor shower destroying more of his spaceship, and Mills taking aim at the T-Rex. With as many times as the beastie shows up, 65 looks to be taking a page out of The Lost World’s playbook and making the classic giant the big bad of the film.
65 hits theaters March 10, 2023.
Source: Sony/YouTube