As we’ve been learning, technology can be dangerous when placed into the wrong hands. That’s the whole thesis behind Drop, the new film from Christopher Landon starring The White Lotus’ Meghann Fahy as a single mother terrorized by anonymous messages during a first date. Universal has just released a new behind the scenes sneak peek at the film, featuring Landon discussing how he made the film and what he hopes audiences take from it.
Landon breaks down the way he moved the camera to accentuate Fahy’s character Violet’s anxiety and fear, moving from what he calls very traditional coverage to more close-ups and “off-kilter” Dutch angles. He also explains that, compared to his other films like Happy Death Day or Freaky, Drop uses comedy “sparingly but effectively”:
“I wrote a film called Disturbia, which was Hitchcock by way of John Hughes. This felt like the evolution of that kind of a film. It straddles Hitchcock, but it’s also very much like a ’90s thriller, but it’s using very modern technology.”
Drop also stars Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, Gabrielle Ryan, Jeffrey Self, Ed Weeks, and Travis Nelson. The full synopsis for the film is as follows.
Emmy nominee Meghann Fahy, breakout star of White Lotus and The Perfect Couple, plays Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, who arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry (It Ends with Us’ Brandon Sklenar) is more charming and handsome than she expected.
But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone. She is instructed to tell nobody and follow instructions or the hooded figure she sees on her home security cameras will kill Violet’s young son and babysitting sister. Violet must do exactly as directed or everyone she loves will die. Her unseen tormentor’s final directive? Kill Henry.
Written by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach, the Blumhouse film is Landon’s first directorial effort since last year’s We Have a Ghost, starring Stranger Things’ David Harbour and Anthony Mackie. It’s also his first film to hit theaters after he exited the troubled Scream 7, which he was initially set to direct. The film is produced by Jason Blum, Brad and Cameron Fuller, and Michael Bay, of all people. (We don’t know what he’s doing here, but we’re excited nonetheless.)
Drop hits theaters on April 11. Check out the new featurette below:
