Details

Release year: 2016

Storyline

Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.

Top credits

Directors

Nacho Vigalondo

Writers

Nacho Vigalondo

Cast

Anne Hathaway — Gloria
Jason Sudeikis — Oscar
Austin Stowell — Joel
Tim Blake Nelson — Garth

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Did you know

• Anne Hathaway was in the second trimester of her pregnancy while filming the movie.

• Anne Hathaway was the first actress to sign on at a time when the project had no financial backing. She heard about the script after finding herself "in a little bit of an artistic no man's land" for inspiration. Director Jonathan Demme screened for her a copy of A Field in England (2013), after which Hathaway decided that it represented exactly the type of movie she wanted to make. After asking her representation to see a similar script that she could join, she was sent this film's script. Hathaway found herself attracted to the genre-hopping nature of the script, later comparing it to Being John Malkovich (1999), one of her favorite films.

• No motion captured footage was used for the creation of the monster; rather, footage of Anne Hathaway acting out her parts was given to the CG team, who used this as reference points. The CG artists, as opposed to director Nacho Vigalondo, were responsible for the look of the monster itself. Vigalondo stated that this delegation of artistic design was partly due to his lack of artistic skill and partly due to him "[wanting] them to feel like characters that felt like a part of the genre we're playing with."