Driver's new movie 65 drives the dinosaurs to extinction. What's not to love?
This time-traveling sci-fi thriller has massive flop written all over it. Or it could be the greatest movie ever made
The Stuart Heritage
 @stuheritage
Thu Dec 15, 2022 11:07 AM EST
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Let's go back in our minds to the beginning of February. That's when Moonfall, Roland Emmerich's latest sci-fi disaster movie, was released to almost deafening shrugs of apathy from the general public. Moonfall cost nearly $150 million to make, but only managed to recoup $67 million in the months since its release. It is currently the 13th biggest flop in the history of cinema (almost certainly).
Moonfall was a movie about the moon threatening to fall out of the sky and crash into Earth. And yet the film somehow failed to find viewers. I'm telling you this because there's going to be a movie about Adam Driver accidentally going back in time and shooting a bunch of dinosaurs with some space weapon. And, for God's sake, we must protect this movie with our lives.

The movie is called 65 (because dinosaurs lived on Earth 65 million years ago) and no one has high hopes for it; not least because many scientists now believe that dinosaurs actually went extinct 66 million years ago, so by rights this should really just be a movie about Adam Driver accidentally going back in time and finding a bunch of million-year-old dinosaur corpses.

And yet the 65 trailer was released yesterday and for god's sake try to stop yourself from rooting for it. The whole thing looks absurd: the premise is stupid, the special effects look pointless, and Adam Driver seems to be a capital-A, acting with enough wild intensity to make Marriage Story look like Digby the Big Red Dog. But at the same time, I want to watch it a hundred times in a row with everyone I've ever met.
It helps that the 65 has a huge pedigree. In addition to Driver being on board, the film is being produced by Sam Ra