65 Movie Directors Scott Beck & Bryan Woods on Bringing Their Epic to the Big Screen

In one of 2023’s first big sci-fi thrillers of the year, 65, writing and directing duo, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are bringing a unique concept to the big screen. Starring Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt, the movie turns the alien planet trope on its head, giving us a new take on the showdown between man and dinosaurs. During an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Beck and Woods described the epic as a “hybrid” between Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) and Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line) films. The duo is best known for penning the screenplays for the A Quiet Place franchise, and are also the writers behind Rob Savage’s upcoming Stephen King adaptation, The Boogeyman, which they tell us is their favorite work from the king of horror. In 65, Beck and Woods tap into their childhood passion for both filmmaking and big-scale dinosaur flicks by sending audiences back 65 million years ago to prehistoric Earth. When Pilot Mills’ (Driver) spacecraft crash lands on an uncharted planet, he and the