![]() ![]() "What would we do? How would we all react?" "I've always been curious: what would happen in a situation like that with someone who is one of us?" says Williams. Yet, crucially, Gordon-Levitt's character was trained to fly. And I think there's a little part of us, as human animals, that misses that."ĭirected by Mikael Marcimain, who made the 2012 thriller Call Girl, Horizon Line comes hot on the heels of 7500, a Patrick Vollrath film that starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a jumbo jet pilot trapped in his cockpit as terrorists take over the cabin. Things just aren't putting us in that degree of danger usually. " W e live in a time when we're so comfortable. "I think people love to be put in extreme situations," says Dreymon. ![]() "From the minute it starts, you're like: 'There's no way they just land uneventfully!'"Ĭertainly, the survival movie – Robert Redford in a yacht in All Is Lost, Bullock again in a space capsule in Gravity and Mads Mikkelsen in the snowy wastes in Arctic – is one genre that has, well, survived. "The analogy that we've used is, like Speed in the air – but with fewer people," laughs Williams, referring to the 1994 classic starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock a bus and a bomb. What follows is a real-time, white-knuckle thriller, as these two ordinary folk are forced to pool resources. When she bumps into her former boyfriend Jackson (Dreymon), they spend an ill-advised night together and head off the next morning to a tiny island, their shaky transport piloted by cheery local Wyman (Keith David). Williams, who played Marnie in Girls opposite Lena Dunham and featured in Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning horror-satire Get Out, plays Sara, who has arrived for a friend's wedding in Mauritius. 'Horizon Line' follows the story of a couple who are mid-air when the pilot suffers a heart attack and dies. "Usually life gets in the way – your phone's buzzing and emails coming in or whatever," she says. It's a feeling she's had since she first picked up the script. ![]() When we meet at Weston Airport in Dublin, where the extensive special effects are being shot in front of a green screen, Williams, 32, is bubbling with excitement. That is the premise for Horizon Line, the new nerve-shredding thriller featuring Allison Williams ( Girls ) and Alexander Dreymon ( The Last Kingdom ) trapped in a nightmare scenario. And if that weren’t awkward enough, the pilot suffers a heart attack, mid-air and dies. The only passengers are you and your ex-partner. Imagine the scene: you’re in a tiny plane heading for a tropical island wedding. ![]()
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