Jeremy Saulnier is following up 2015’s genre hit “Green Room” with “Hold the Dark,” a Netflix original film about a man fighting nature to save a young child.
Jeffrey Wright leads a starry cast including Riley Keough, Alexander Skarsgård, James Badge Dale, and Julian Black Antelope.
The film debuts on Netflix and in select theaters on Sept.
28.Saulnier recently spoke to IndieWire about the epic scale of the production.“There’s scenes in the Iraq War,” he said.
“There’s a lot of outback Alaskan landscapes.
There’s aerial sequences.
We’re dealing with bison and lynxes and wolves and all kinds of creatures.
That was great to not build a contained environment and really milk it for all it’s worth like I did in ‘Green Room,’ but really bend my will around the landscape and the needs of the animals and to keep it very grounded and realistic,
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