- 2018-03-04
-
FILM
-
First Trailer for Andrew Niccol's Sci-Fi Technology Thriller “Anon” starring Clive Owen & Amanda Seyfried
New Zealand-born screenwriter-director Andrew Niccol, who is known for creating "Gattaca" and "The Truman Show", directed a new film “Anon”.
The film stars Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried. It is his first film in four years since "Good Kill". Andrew Niccol and Amanda Seyfried worked together on "In Time" in 2011, this marks the second time working for both.
The film is about a near-future where there is no privacy or anonymity, where even private memories are recorded in an effort to cut down on crime.
Principal photography on the film began in early September 2016 in New York City. Clive Owen was cast in the film to play the role of a detective in a world without crime. Amanda Seyfried played a woman with no digital footprint who is invisible to the police.
Andrew Niccol produced with Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur at K5 Film.
The film will open in the UK starting in May 2018.- Plot:
ANON is set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity. Our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, SAL FRIELAND (Owen) stumbles onto a young woman (Seyfried) who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as THE GIRL, Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim. - source : Den of Geek US
