We’re getting the first look at 2073, Academy Award and BAFTA-winning director Asif Kapadia‘s (Amy) film, billed as a genre-bending thriller set in a dystopian future. Directed by Kapadia and starring Samantha Morton, Naomi Ackie and Hector Hewie, the film will make its world premiere Tuesday out of competition at the Venice Film Festival.
2073 is inspired by Chris Marker’s iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée — about a time traveler who risks his life to change the course of history and save the future of humanity — which previously served as the basis for Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi pic 12 Monkeys, with Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt.
Per the synopsis: “It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies, and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence.”
Described as a mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, 2073 stars Morton as “a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past – a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality and global climate change,” according to the synopsis, which concludes, “2073 is an urgent unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.”
Neon, Double Agent and Film4 partnered to co-finance and exec produce the film. Kapadia and George Chignell are producing. Davis Guggenheim, Nicole Stott and Jonathan Silberberg exec produce on behalf of Concordia Studio, alongside Riz Ahmed’s Left Handed Films.
Check out the trailer above and key art below.
