Stephen Dorff, Bella Thorne and more on the ‘deeply unorthodox’ filming methods behind Eddie Alcazar’s sci-fi thriller ‘Divinity’ – Sundance Studio

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DEITY
section: THE NEXT
director: Eddie Alcazar
screenwriter: Eddie Alcazar

log line: In an extraterrestrial human existence, scientist Sterling Pierce (Scott Bakula) devoted his life to the quest for immortality, slowly creating the building blocks of a groundbreaking serum called “Divinity”. Jaxxon Pierce (Stephen Dorff), his son, now controls and produces his father’s once benevolent dream. Society on this barren planet has been completely warped by the dominance of the drug, whose true origins are shrouded in mystery. Two mysterious brothers (Moises Arias and Jason Genao) arrive with a plan to kidnap the tycoon, and with the help of a seductive woman named Nikita (Karrueche Tran), they are on the road to true immortality.

panelist: Stephen Dorff (Actor), Jason Genao (Actor), Bella Thorne (Actor), Karrueche Tran (Actor), Moises Arias (Actor)

sales agent: CAA

First show: January 21, 8:45pm MST, Egyptian Theatre

main quotes: “I think I can speak for all of us that Eddie falls short The Vandal really excited about what his vision could be. And we all wanted to be a part of something perhaps almost as special. I know me, Karrueche and Jason got together and saw some storyboards before we ever saw a script. And then, on set, this movie kind of unfolded. There was no need to have 120 pages on the table.”

“There was a script. I mean, it was 30 pages… but it evolved. It was kind of a work in progress. As for my character, I saw vandalism, as Moises said, and I thought it was original. I had never seen a film so soon before, so we talked during Covid and wanted to make a film. He talked to me about this character, Jaxxon, and kind of built the character. Then he started sending me a few pages – very few, very few. Then we did makeup tests and went to Joshua Tree to do the first big part of the shoot. And it evolved. It was a very unorthodox way of making a film. But Eddie is unique, and at a time when most films are the same over and over again, I like to try different things. – Stefan Dorff

“[It was] a very unorthodox set. I liked it. I feel like we’ve all been at work for a long time, and it’s nice to be thrown into something so completely different than expected. – Bella Thorne

“I would like to [the hope is for the film] Just start a conversation for whatever it is [viewers] feel… I think everyone will have their own interpretations of death and the afterlife and rebirth, and I think that’s the most interesting thing, just hearing what people have to say, whether they hate it or love it. I think it’s going very well and I’m very excited. – Karrueche Tran

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