This is the first one in a while where it’s just me from beginning to end.īTL: Is this something you had been working on or developing for a while and just finally came around to making it?īurger: I had the idea a long time ago, and wrote it a while ago, and then I got busy with other projects, and I had kind of put it aside. On all the other movies - Limitless and Divergent - I wrote on them, but I’m uncredited. Neil Burger (Photo: Chris Chapman)īelow the Line: One thing that caught my eye immediately, is that this is your first movie you’ve written in some time. Tye Sheridan ’s Christopher has feelings for Lily-Rose Depp ’s Sela but Fionn ( Dunkirk ) Whitehead ’s Zac also has his eye on her, and that’s where the conflict lies in the 90+-year journey to a new world.īelow the Line spoke with Burger over Zoom a few weeks back for the following interview, in which we talk about doing a science fiction movie that used more practical sets than visual effects, as well as the “tyranny” of being a writer/director who might get precious about cutting his own original ideas. Colin Farrell plays Richard, the one adult who is sent on the mission to guide them, but the teenagers begin rebelling (as teenagers do) when they stop drinking the “blue” that suppresses any individualistic desires. It’s an outer space coming-of-age thriller that follows a group of teenagers sent into space to populate a new world as the earth is dying.
2017’s The Upside with Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart took Burger in yet another new direction, the film being a remake of the French hit, The Intouchables, that was almost sidelined by the scandal that would eventually put the studio head Harvey Weinstein in jail.īurger’s latest film, Voyagers, is the first movie he’s directed based on his own script since The Lucky Ones. Director Neil Burger ’s 30-year career has taken him through a fairly varied journey from his early days doing music videos to his first three very different feature films, all of which he wrote: Interview with the Assassin (2002), The Illusionist (2006) and The Lucky Ones (2008).įrom there, he had a sci-fi hit with Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, and delved into franchise filmmaking with Divergent.
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