Submit-apocalyptic tales have at all times been a well-liked sub-genre of science fiction. There’s one thing oddly fascinating about seeing the aftermath of a fictional catastrophic occasion that alters the lives of on-screen characters, or slightly, those who’re left. This yr supplied one of many extra distinctive takes on such a premise, with moviegoers who cherished Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun‘s Love Me, or those that simply love sci-fi, in for a deal with after Paramount+ introduced that the post-apocalyptic movie will likely be on its streaming service on June 16, 2025.
Love Me premiered within the U.S. Dramatic Competitors on the 2024 Sundance Movie Pageant in January, the place it was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Characteristic Movie Prize. It was launched in U.S. theaters on January 31, 2025, after it was introduced that ShivHans Photos was going to launch the movie with Bleecker Road. WME Impartial acquired the movie’s worldwide gross sales rights. The film, which follows a buoy and a satellite tv for pc who meet on-line lengthy after human extinction (sure, you learn that proper), will likely be out there on Paramount+ with Showtime by way of Bleecker Road’s steady partnership with the service. Throughout their journey collectively, Me/Deja (Stewart) and Iam/Liam (Yeun) uncover what life on earth was like for people and within the course of discover out who they’re, and what it means to like and stay (and, presumably, snigger).
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Love Me blends animation and live-action and was the characteristic debut of writer-directors Sam and Andy Zuchero. ShivHans Photos, 2AM, AgX, Kevin Rowe, Luca Borghese, Ben Howe, Shivani Rawat, and Julie Goldstein produced the flick. In February, Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun did a joint interview with Indie Wire discussing how Love Me wasn’t making an announcement about AI, with Stewart as a substitute stating that the film was onerous to pin down.
“I believe the film itself is simply, in a really cool manner, actually onerous to pin down. I believe that is the purpose. It’s extremely onerous to outline. It is onerous to do interviews about it. It was onerous to speak about on set. We had been at all times questioning if we had been having the identical dialog, like existential spiral stuff, and that is, like, completely why we make films. I simply thought it was sort of a breath of recent air.”
Why Kristen Stewart Selected to Be part of the “Odd” Sci-Fi Outing
It is at all times thrilling to study the explanation why an actor selected a particular mission. Kristen Stewart’s filmography is one thing to focus on, just because she did not enable Hollywood to field her in along with her Twilight Saga character Bella Swan. She selected to be part of the Love Me forged due to the “odd” plot and fascinating, deeply human message.
“I wished to be in a film that begins off as only a lonely voice, after which lastly type of breaks away into some foolish cartoon — which being a human usually seems like — and you then go just a little additional, and you’ve got bizarre make-up on. You are type of doing an odd, human impression, and by the top, we’re capturing in 35mm, and we’re touching one another for actual. I believed that was simply such an fascinating sort of expertise to have. […] It simply actually prods at what it’s to attach and the way determined we’re to take action, with the entire shape-shifting we do to be able to get shut to one another and our personal sense of self. It felt so daring to me, acknowledging that the reality is so transient as a substitute of attempting to make some groundbreaking assertion.”
Supply: Deadline, IndieWire
Love Me
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- Launch Date
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January 31, 2025
- Runtime
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92 Minutes
- Director
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Sam Zuchero, Andy Zuchero
- Writers
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Sam Zuchero, Andy Zuchero
- Producers
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Julie Goldstein, Ben Howe, Luca Borghese, Shivani Rawat, Kevin Rowe, Connor Flanagan, Christine D’Souza Gelb