What We Saw During a Preview of ‘The End of Oak Street’: “A People Movie with Monsters”
Matt Konopka discusses what he saw during a preview presentation of David Robert Mitchell’s ‘The End of Oak Street’.
Summer audiences want one thing and one thing only…dinosaurs wreaking havoc.
Okay, so maybe that’s not the only thing they want, but it’s on the list! And David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) appears ready to provide with The End of Oak Street.
The fourth feature from Mitchell stars Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery as a suburban family who awaken one morning to discover their street has been sucked up and dropped into an era of dinosaurs and danger. Together, they must find a way back to the present, or face becoming extinct.
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to check out a preview of The End of Oak Street with Mitchell and producer J.J. Abrams (Star Trek) in attendance!
When it comes to what inspired the film, Mitchell said, “I’d always wanted to make a dinosaur film. A few years ago, I was walking through our neighborhood. I was passing by this house and this garage, and it was just an interesting little alleyway and some garbage cans, and I was struck by this image of a dinosaur there. I thought, oh, I want to write a film that feels the way that this feels to me in this moment.”
Whatever Mitchell felt in that moment, I’m into it, because the footage I saw, quite simply, thrilled me.
The footage we were shown picks up the morning after a nasty storm. The Platt family gathers around the breakfast table, concerned for their neighbors and their missing dog, Starbuck. Finished eating, Hathaway and McGregor set out to investigate.
