Presence: Steven Soderbergh & David Koepp Deliver A Supernatural Family Drama Told Through The Perspective Of A Ghost
Indie film director Steven Soderbergh made a huge cinema splash at Sundance with the voyeuristic Sex, Lies and Videotape in 1989. Similarly, screenwriter David Koepp made waves a year earlier with his cool, controlled thriller Apartment Zero.
Over the years, the pair have crossed professional paths in the film circuit, brainstorming potential collaborations. That effort has born fruit. “Presence came about while we were talking about doing a remake of the 1944 ghost movie The Uninvited,” recalls Soderbergh. The wheels were put in motion.
Presence is ostensibly a haunted house movie about a family moving into their dream home.
The mother, Rebecca (Lucy Liu) is an alpha executive barking orders in the most inelegant manner. Her teenage son Tyler (Eddy Madday) is on track to follow in her aggressive footsteps. This contrasts with her gentle giant husband Chris (Chris Sullivan) and teen daughter Chloe (Callina Liang) who is grieving over her best friend’s recent death. So, presence or not, the family dynamics are always sombre and tense.
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