Kevin's ex-girlfriend Laurie is also at the dinner, and she wants him back. Can we truly know the day of our demise? "[8], Interviewer Nell Minow confessed her reaction to the actors' relationships: "I just assumed that they all knew each other very well because they fell into the kinds of rhythms that old friends have." In this reality, Emily had agreed to go to Vietnam with Kevin at the beginning of the evening, and their relationship had stayed strong. Byrkit intentionally chose actors who did not know each other. Tonight I watched a movie called "The Coming Convergence" which I wanted to write about in case you've not heard about it and want to watch it. Byrkit told him that his desire was "to strip down a film set to the bare minimum: getting rid of the script, getting rid of the crew. They realize that there are more than just two realities, and they switch from one house to another when they go outside and walk through a dark area. Convergence (book series), edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen "Convergence" (comics), two separate story lines published by DC Comics: A four-part crossover storyline that united the four Weirdoverse titles in 1997; A 2015 crossover storyline spanning the DC Comics Multiverse; Convergence, an academic journal that covers the fields of communications and media Coherence is an American surreal science fiction psychological thriller film directed by James Ward Byrkit in his directorial debut. I’m not getting into the details and relationship between these 8 people. 2 years ago | 25 views. On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Teaser Trailer. They take the box and go back to the other house, then the Hugh and Amir with blue glow sticks return. Just five minutes after they arrived at my house they had to pretend to be married and lovers and best friends. After reading those notes, they deduce that the comet has created a split reality, and that one of the realities will collapse when the comet passes. Mike mentions that if there's a dark version of their group, maybe it's them. ** Barry: "I remember that you have play a role in a movie. Lee and Mike are the hosting couple. not sure I would have been thrilled to see it in a movie theater at present ticket and snack prices but a good rental. They introduce themselves to each other, hang out, drink, eat and deliver expository banter. The actual movie itself is so different than ours that it wasn't as much of an influence as, say, Carnage by Roman Polanski, or other non-sci-fi movies. But each day, instead of getting a script, the actors would get a page of notes for their individual character, whether it was a backstory or information about their motivations. Directed by James Ward Byrkit. The song in the closing credits is "Galaxies", from the album Year of Meteors by Laura Veirs. But he and co-storywriter Alex Manugian weren't just making it up as they went along." Gotham-nominated debut director James Ward Byrkit stripped his vision down to the barest of bones to achieve a mind-shifting, metaphysical freakout about a dinner party gone cosmically awry. Her double is able to crawl back inside, forcing Emily to subdue her again in a bathtub. On an assignment to write about a mental-hospital patient who supposedly can predict people's deaths, the younger reporter suddenly experiences a recurrence of lost feelings she had from a near-death experience years previous in an air crash. (2013). Hugh says that at the other house he saw a dinner party set for eight people. that you trust and an idea. But they wouldn't know what the other actors had received so it had a very natural, very spontaneous collision of motivations that ended up being what you see on film; obviously guided by a very strict outline that we have been working on for about a year that tracked all the clues and the puzzles and all the rehearsals and things like that. This film is about the relationship of Dell and Kimberly, a young couple from Los Angeles. Convoluted Convergence Thrillingly Ambitious. COMET is a new television channel dedicated to sci-fi entertainment offering popular favorites, cult classics, and undiscovered gems, every day. ... To be quite honest with you, I never really knew what was going on fully until I saw the movie done. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences. Brendon replied, "I can't remember now, but every day we had five different things that we had to convey... but I do know that Jim [Byrkit], and then Alex [Manugian], the other writer, had to make sure that we were all on point. [7][9][13][14][15], Byrkit answered one interviewer: "Twilight Zone, for sure. The goal was to get them listening to each other, and engaged in the mystery of it all. Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps. Written by They had no idea what the other characters received, so each night there were completely real reactions, and surprises and responses. Someday Barry Allen had a signature by Nata, one of the greatest film stars. The Coming Convergence is an Documentary, War, Fantasy movie that was released in 2017 and has a run time of 1 hr 42 min. The original score was composed by Kristin Øhrn Dyrud. 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