to hear writerdirectors scott beck and bryan woods tell it 65 is the movie theyve been working towards since they were 10yearolds in iowa making stopmotion home movies with their jurassic park action figures starring adam driver and ariana greenblatt 65 is their long gestating original scifi epic featuring rampaging dinosaurs and two humans forced to connect with one another despite their personal losses while 65 could have just been about pitting dinos against almost defenseless humans woods exclusively tells sfxgamesradar that as thematic writers they couldnt just take the action path so we started thinking were writing a dinosaur movie the dinosaurs went extinct thats really sad theres no dinosaurs but then out of death grew something special which is eventually that earth kept going and civilization started this idea of rebirth oddly started filtering its way into the movie and the charactersfrom that premise came the story of commercial pilot commander mills driver and young koa greenblatt the only two survivors when their ship is hit by an asteroid and crashes onto an uncharted planet vulnerable and with few resources along with a language barrier the two have to work together to survive despite their uncertainty about one another we just loved this idea of having what is on the surface this high concept pulpy bmovie premise and then the whole movie stops for like a terrence malick scene woods says about the intimate story thats at the heart of the film we love doing that ebb and flow there are the layers of the fun of the premise but also the almost nonverbal silent film intimate character moments as well and that for us was a lot of funthe driver effectimage credit sonyin order to pull off a dialogue light script between an adult and a child casting became key for mills beck and woods set their sights on adam driver they passionately pitched him during the pandemic lockdown and the actor was convincedadam has been such an incredible collaborator from the very start because we would break down the script together beck says enthusiastically about drivers early input hed present 10 thoughts and wed want to sit down listen break down and figure out a way to do all 10 of those and then in the editing process its him reacting to what the movie is we would be on set and we would love to do take after take and get nuance and differences we were always like we want one more and adam is like well i want one more than that we would be able to build these versions of the scenes and sit back and evaluate them as a team adam is so intelligent in terms of behavioral science but also what is just instinctually the right note to hit its something that we love because theres two of us and we are always indulging each other in conversation to have adam inside the little circle of trust was an