{"id":38410,"date":"2025-02-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38410"},"modified":"2025-02-23T17:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:46:53","slug":"the-gorge-2025-written-by-zach-dean-directed-by-scott-derrickson-starring-miles-teller-anya-taylor-joy-and-sigourney-weaver-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38410","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Gorge&#8221; (2025) written by Zach Dean; directed by Scott Derrickson; starring Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sigourney Weaver \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z022625zview_thegorge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Gorge <\/i>(2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Scott Derrickson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Zach Dean<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver, William Houston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Julianna Kurokawa, Samantha Coughlan, Alessandro Garcia <\/strong>and <strong>Ruta Gedmintas<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>They&#8217;re not keeping you out. They&#8217;re keeping them in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Levi Kane (Teller), a retired Marine Sniper is hired for a mysterious job that will last one year.\u00a0 Kane is taken to an undisclosed location where he receives his orders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His mission is to guard one side of a deep gorge.\u00a0 Automated weapons line the rim of the gorge.\u00a0 Mines are strung along the walls of the chasm.\u00a0 Kane will be housed in a tower with equipment to oversea everything.\u00a0 He will have no contact with the outside world except for monthly radio check ins with his employers.\u00a0 A Russian operative is one the other side of the gorge with the same mission.\u00a0 Kane is to have no contact with her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Kane asked who they are keeping out of the gorge, he is told, &#8220;You&#8217;re not keeping anyone out, you&#8217;re keeping the creatures that live in there from coming out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the weeks pass, the Russian operative, Drasa (Taylor-Joy) begins communicating with Kane.\u00a0 Short messages turn into conversations, long-distance chess matches and more.\u00a0 A friendship develops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When things go sidesways Kane and Drasa can depend only on each other to survive the hellish creatures from the gorge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy have the chemistry needed to make their on-screen relationship work.<\/p>\n<p>Sigourney Weaver was an excellent choice for the role of the corporate boss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kudos to writer Zack Dean for creating an action-horror-romance that is original and works.\u00a0 Hats off also to director Scott Derrickson and the team that made the world in the gorge feel like something from one of Dante&#8217;s rings of Hell.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t sleep on <em>The Gorge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>The Gorge <\/i>(2025) <\/em><\/strong>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z022625zview_thegorge2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gorge (2025) Director:\u00a0 Scott Derrickson Screenplay: Zach Dean Stars: Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver, William Houston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,17,53,54,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38411,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38410\/revisions\/38411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}