Together has been making headlines for a number of reasons – not least due to its stomach-churning, nightmarish premise – with its stars Dave Franco and Alison Brie embarking on an intensive publicity run to promote the movie.
Couple Tim and Millie’s marriage has grown stagnant. When they decide to up sticks and move to the country in order to try and revive their spark and bring them closer together, they don’t intend for it to end up being quite so literal. After spending a night in a cave, an unnatural force takes hold, leaving the pair sick whenever they’re apart. But when they do spend time together, their body parts start to merge.
While it does sound nauseatingly uncomfortable, don’t be put off – we’ve got three reasons why you have to watch Together when it arrives at Cineworld this Friday (15th August).
People are in disbelief AI wasn’t used for the final scene in Together
Without giving away any spoilers, it says a lot that the final scene in Together didn’t require AI to make a visual reality. Director and writer of Together, Michael Shanks, told IndieWire of his increasing frustrations that all mindblowing special effects are presumed to be born out of Artificial Intelligence.
“The amount of screenings I’ve gone to now, and people come up to me and say, ‘Was that AI at the end?’ It’s just so crazy that people assume AI is now the cause. We’ve used absolutely none of it on this film.
“As a VFX guy, as somebody that’s worked with all these teams that put in so much work, it’s so frustrating now that people look at something that looks interesting or good, and they [assume] just a computer made it. It’s like, ‘No, no, no, no, no.’”
Framehouse was responsible for the use of CGI in the aforementioned scene, with other instances in which the married couple in the movie fused together created through prosthetics and makeup.
Dave Franco described it as “the first ever feel-good body horror”
Given how truly disturbing and outright grim body horror movies tend to be (The Centipede, anyone?), it’s hard to believe anything in this genre could be a self-proclaimed “feel-good” movie. But that’s exactly what Franco described Together as when talking to Metro.
Brie added that she sees it as a “gateway horror” for viewers that wouldn’t necessarily jump to watch the latest horror movie, blending together romance and comedy, while still having its “feet definitively planted in the horror genre”. If that sounds like you, Together might be one you needn’t worry about watching through your fingers.
Dave Franco and Alison Brie opted not to use an intimacy coordinator
The role of an Intimacy coordinator has become essential and important in the world of filmmaking, especially in light of the #MeToo movement, ensuring actors and crew feel comfortable with, and can talk through, any intimate scenes.
It may come as no surprise, however, that Franco and Brie decided one wasn’t necessary given they’re married and have been together for more than a decade.
In an interview with LADbible Franco said, “We’ve been together for 13 and a half years…We did make sure to talk to the crew around us to make sure they were comfortable.” Brie agreed, “The idea was that we knew we were very comfortable with each other physically and we talked about it separately before bringing that to the set and just wanted to make sure everyone was on the same page.”
Given the nature of the movie, it’s a sex scene unlike any other. And Shanks has defended its essential inclusion, stating, “It's certainly not a scene for titillation. It’s a scene of tension and cringe.”
Shanks goes on to say it was essential that the roles of Tim and Millie were played by a real life couple. Without one, “I don’t think we could have pulled this off”, with the scene in question requiring the couple “to be conjoined for hours upon hours” in order to shoot it. Gross…but intriguing?
Have we managed to convince you to go watch the movie? Go see Together at Cineworld and book your tickets below.
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