By MICHAEL GINGOLD
Extraterrestrial terror is coming to streaming services later this month.
NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU begins streaming September 22 exclusively on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America, and Disney+ in all other territories. Written and directed by Brian Duffield, the 20th Century Studios film stars Kaitlyn Dever as Brynn, a young woman dealing with an alien attack while also struggling with a painful past. “I wanted the movie to take the lead of a small intimate character study and drop an alien invasion on top of them,” says Duffield, whose scripting credits include the BABYSITTER movies and LOVE AND MONSTERS and who served as producer on COCAINE BEAR. “The end of the world won’t only be for those that are ready for it, and the idea of an alien movie rudely bursting the bubble our character has spent years building and cultivating felt like a unique way to tell a favorite story.
“I think there’s a deeply buried feeling that every alien invasion movie could turn out to be true because they remain such an unknown in our daily lives,” he continues. “As our world careens more and more out of control, maybe there’s even a desire that there’s something out there smarter than us that can help put us on a more sane path. The aliens in NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU are superior to humans in every way, which makes Brynn and her surprising resistance somewhat puzzling to them.”
Dever broke out in BOOKSMART and previously starred in Hulu’s MONSTERLAND series, and Duffield says NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU represents new territory for her. “We were so excited to have Kaitlyn join us because–like Brynn being thrust into a whole new world–Kaitlyn had never done a movie so aggressively physical and sci-fi before,” he says. “I think audiences will be blown away by how commanding Kaitlyn is on screen as she uses her solitude and silence to create a truly unique and complex character.”
