Karen Gillan is Seeing Double in Riley Stearns’ Sci-Fi Drama

Next his deadpan darkish comedies Faults and The Artwork of Self-Defense, Riley Stearns heads into sci-fi territory with Dual, which continue to finds slivers of humor in a story of a terminally ill female who opts for a cloning course of action to simplicity her reduction on her pals and loved ones. When she makes a miraculous restoration, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned are unsuccessful and direct to a court docket-mandated duel to the loss of life. In advance of an April 15 theatrical launch, the trailer has now arrived.

Michael Frank mentioned in his Sundance assessment, “Stearns, critically successful in his 1st two movies, will likely come across a a lot more divisive viewers with Dual, which bears an remarkable premise and mixed execution. Starring Karen Gillan as Sarah, this light-weight sci-fi drama seems to be like the current globe. Small has been altered if anything at all the engineering looks like it’s from the 1990s. The only change seems to be a cloning method obtainable to these that are dying—like Sarah, who opts to undergo a course of action that conveniently only can take just one hour. A lady with a frequently touring fiancé, Sarah’s loneliness almost never exists offscreen. It’s all-consuming.”

See the trailer (by using Collider) and poster beneath. Just one can also browse our interview with Stearns below.

Dual comes in theaters on April 15 and on VOD on May 20.