A sci-fi comedy by Mel Eslyn and a literary noir by Alice Traughton – who are, respectively, the longtime producer for the Duplass brothers, and an award-winning U.K. television director (Dr. Who, …
. Set in the not-too-distant future, Billy and Ray , are lifelong best friends who also happen to be the last two men on earth. They survive thanks to Ray, a brilliant scientist who designed the custom, apartment-size biosphere they call home, outfitting it with creature comforts and the necessities to sustain life on a doomed planet. But when the population of their fishpond — which supplies essential protein — begins waning, the men find themselves facing an ominous future.
The kernel of the idea came from Mark Duplass years ago, Eslyn said. “The last two men on earth, and they run out of food..and there were a few other things, I think he was tending down the path we ultimately ended up at but couldn’t fully see the way there. And I think there were a lot of things I could bring to the table as a woman. And as a woman, and a queer woman, with a unique and different perspective. I kind of just felt it in my gut and was like, let me run with it.
“I saw an opportunity, with the last two men on earth, to really analyze toxic masculinity. Why two men? Two men who are straight. And why are they the ones who get left? It sort of seems like, it’s so typical, and I wanted to examine that and push them into places you don’t normally see a buddy comedy go.”by Samuel D. Pollard in a one-week theatrical window exclusively with AMC in 50 markets.
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