Director Scott Derrickson’s new movie, The Gorge, is out this week on Apple TV Plus, and it’s inspired by some popular video games. Derrickson, who previously directed Doctor Strange and The Black Phone, said in an interview that the film takes inspiration from Until Dawn and Silent Hill.
“I love those games, and I do think that gaming has sort of set the bar for gunplay action, especially if you’re really with a single character or two characters, you kind of can’t beat it,” Derrickson told GamesRadar.
For anyone just catching up, The Gorge stars Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy as trained snipers who are assigned to cover a gorge. When day shifts to night, things change, and the snipers have a lot more to contend with and ultimately, they have to work together. GamesRadar saw the movie and said some of it was reminiscent of games like The Last of Us and Silent Hill.
Derrickson also discussed how one of the challenges in making The Gorge was to ensure it didn’t lean too far into the kind of “straight, chaotic stimulus of gaming-type action.” The movie aims to be a blend of genres, with inspiration coming from video games, among other things.
The Gorge was written by Zach Dean, who previously wrote the movies Fast X, The Tomorrow War, and Deadfall. It releases for Apple TV Plus on February 14.
