The Lost City
Warning : Some SPOILERS lie ahead forThe Lost City
Sandra Bullock is back in action with the adventure romantic - comedyThe Lost City . The cinema stars Bullock as a reclusive dangerous undertaking novelist who is kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire to help him find a priceless artifact in the nominal city , leading her dimwitted cover model to fix after them in the hopes of saving her .
The romcom saw a healthy box power as the humanity returned to normal after the pandemic , and now it is experience new life on Paramount+ before it finally get in in physical form when the 4 K , Blu - ray and DVD translation unloosen on July 26 .
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Ahead of the film ’s digital release , Screen Rantspoke exclusively with Centennial State - author and theatre director , Adam and Aaron Nee , to discussThe baffled City . They shared the history develop Brad Pitt ’s hilarious cameo and mid - credits aspect , talk about theirMasters of the Universemovie , and more .
Screen Rant : I ’m frantic totalk aboutThe Lost City , it was quite a playfulness ride from start to destination . This , of course , was n’t your first time behind the tv camera for a feature article - length film , but this was a handwriting that had been kicked around for quite a while trying to get made . What was it about it that really concern you both ?
Aaron Nee : I think there are a dyad parts to that answer . One is that this tapdance into things that vibrate with our film experience growing up , those Echo of classical risky venture films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and woo the Stone . Those things are very likeable to us , because those were formative movie for us . But it was also just the proper time for this to come around , when we saw this book , it was October of 2020 , the pandemic ’s going on , [ there was ] political divisiveness , it just felt like the globe was falling apart .
Everybody was switch off off and close into their homes and this was that classic escape that I think cinema is so unambiguously purposed for . That opportunity to get together with Quaker and express joy and go to alien beautiful position , so this was the film that we were feeling , ourselves , longing to see and just entrust that we were n’t alone in that .
Adam Nee : I concur .
So I know that you two also had a writing credit on this on , what did you impart to the script that was n’t already there ?
Adam Nee : So when we did take it back in October of 2020 , it was very funny , it was maybe more in the wild-eyed funniness space — which we love — but our take on it , one of the big things was just , " How do we treat this motion picture like it ’s an adventure movie ? Take these character who have no business sector being on anIndiana Jones - type adventureand drop them into the middle of it in this very fish - out - of - weewee path but do it where the stakes experience real and the action at law sic while have actual peril attach to them . "
Just kind of fleshing that out and building that out and taking the risky venture in earnest was kind of our jumping off point . But we worked closely with Dana Fox , one of the other writers , throughout the process and collaborate in attempt to make this a movie that control really well in three different flow of the adventure , romance and comedy and that we took them all very seriously .
Aaron Nee : Yeah , and our cast had such alone intensity level and talents that complement each other . As the shape came together , we also were just refine the parts to determine them up to be the what they do better .
Since you do observe the casting , you ca n’t talk about this motion-picture show withouttalking about Brad Pitt ’s part , that was one of the coolest little cameo out there . But I ’m singular , did you have other hoi polloi in brain for that part or was it always Brad Pitt in your mind ?
Adam Nee : We never reckon we were gon na get Brad Pitt for that part . So yeah , we did have a list of other guys . Brad was someone that we talked about right out of the gate , but we and Sandy and everyone just said , " No , let ’s not go down that roadway , it ’s never gon na happen . " Until she did Bullet Train and she was on set with Brad and it became this super organic matter where they share a hairstylist , this woman Janine Thompson .
So Janine was the one who was asking Brad , " Oh , what would we do with your tomentum on this " and coming up with the idea for his flowing hair that ’s like the actual spirit Dash and all these things that I conceive go investing him in the joke of it and it just materialize . It was such a dreamlike thing that Brad Pitt was just then suddenly on a Zoom and then in the Dominican Republic and you ’re like , " Oh , he ’s he ’s here . This is happening . " But we never anticipated that we could get him to do this . It was very surreal .
Do you think back some of the other masses you had on your list of ideas for the role ?
Adam Nee : I retrieve we thoughtit was gon na be Keanu Reevesinitially , but he was was tie up with John Wick and that ’s where we were like , " Brad was always our first selection , " but we did n’t think it was gon na happen . Then [ Sandra ] did Bullet Train and it descend together . And I love Keanu , he would ’ve been fun too .
Keanu would have been just as fun , but I think Brad also has that comedic timing that works well . So I get ta say , I was also surprised bythe mid - credit scene . Part of me knew go into the film , " Okay , Brad ’s got to die , that ’s just catch to be a good little seismic disturbance , " so I was surprised he lived . Was that something that was always planned for his role or was that something that came about in the middle of shooting ?
Aaron Nee : That ’s something that we intended to slip in from the first , but was n’t officially in the book . So we had some side page that we wrote that we let the cat out of the bag with Brad about and it was n’t even officially in the shooting docket , either . We had to discover how we ’re going to slip it in there , but we sleep with his persona so much and felt like the movie is such a non - cynical , warm embracing of adventure that make you experience good and we want the audience to go out the picture feeling just . We also just love the idea of him being such a Zen master in control of his intellect that he can just switch which 10 percentage of his brain he ’s using after mother shot .
Adam Nee : I think one of my great memory of this process was slew Brad the pages for that scene . There ’s a duad adaptation of that picture , there ’s like a five - minute variation of that scene , we shot a hatful of crazy stuff , and him being like , " What is this ? " [ Laughs ] But being so game , that was what was so wild about him and the entire cast is that we would ask them to do such half-baked things and everybody played along . They all brought such positivistic , playful muscularity to the process and it never felt like , " Oh , we ’re fix a movie with flick stars and they ’re difficult . " Everyone was just like , " countenance ’s do it , that go awful . "
Aaron Nee : The picture never would have worked if the stars were n’t unresolved and uncoerced to play and judge thing and put themselves at risk . Because as an doer , when a managing director is befuddle lines at you and saying , " Try this " and " do that , " you ’re vulnerable in that moment , because you may be putting yourself for good on a video record of doing something that just does n’t work and makes you look bad . But the fact that they were unforced to play and capable to that geographic expedition is what makes the movie work .
Speaking of making movies work , to appear away fromThe Lost Cityfor a consequence , I do have to ask aboutMasters of the Universe . This is something that you guys have been wreak on for quite a while now . I know when Kyle was vagabond , it was reported that it was gon na start filming this summer . Is that still sort of the timetable you guy are take care at , how ’s that coming along ?
Adam Nee : It ’s coming along great , it ’ll be next year . come decent off of Lost City was too tight , it ’s such a huge beast of a movie that it require real homework metre . So we ’re working on it now and working towards it set out next outpouring .
Aaron Nee : Yeah , it ’s so significant to us that we do n’t shortchange this stuff . This is a immense movie , but it feels like it ’s our baby . It feels like we ’ve got the the variety of parsimony and affection that we would have for an indie project . It ’s so important to us that we get totake the audience to Eterniain a manner where it experience like a rich , well - germinate substantial place , like you are go to a real world and experiencing a real culture . Then also just having the kind of attending to detail for the dangerous undertaking elements and all of those things and the costuming and the figure meter for all of those things , nothing is rushed , it ’s [ being ] done justly .
Well as someone who uprise up with He - Man , I do beloved get a line that passion . For my final interrogation , sound back toThe Lost City , I hump how much euphony roleplay a part in this flick , especially the Brad Pitt activeness conniption with " Red Right Hand , " I ’m a hugeScreamfan , so that immediately clicked in my head . Did you to begin with have that song in nous when you were crafting that succession or did you have other racetrack in your mind ?
Aaron Nee : That is the song that we cut the stunt vis to . When we did the initial cut of this sequence with just stunts , not when we shot it , but it ’s like pre - vis in a storage warehouse with stunt actors barricade it out and figuring it out , we were cutting it to that Sung dynasty .
Adam Nee : That ’s in all probability one of the rarified songs in the movie that we kind of always knew was the one that we wanted to utilize there . There was a band of talk about whether or not we could because it ’s obviously a song we all know from other things , but like , for me , it ’s dim and Dumber . It ’s so rummy , I always think of Dumb and Dumber where it ’s that great here and now of , " Do n’t spend any money " and they have these hats .
So it just was like we could n’t replace it , we sample a million unlike things , and we could n’t replace it . The vibe is just perfect and it in reality confirm the whole sequence and create such a weird cowman tone to it that it just solve everlasting with Brad ’s eccentric .
What was it like finding his intro Sung too , because I personally also associate that as theTrue Detectiveopening ?
Aaron Nee : That ’s actually one that we very early on used , but then start through an geographic expedition with lots of different song and kept hail back around to that one again , because it had that sort of loner man , whodunit kind of vibe that we want to establish for his type .
Adam Nee : It ’s queer too , because we ’re sensitive of like , " Oh , well , that song is in this and that song is in that , " but the general audience , I feel like they just do n’t really cerebrate about that . Also most movies just are using the same five Sung dynasty over and over and over again , so like I love those songs , I ’m happy to get those guy a licensing fee , because it ’s so astonishing and I think it just accommodate the character absolutely .
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The Lost Cityis now stream on Paramount+ and is available to buy on digital platform . The escapade rom - com will also hit shelves on 4 K Ultra - HD , Blu - beam and videodisc on July 26 .
