Steven Soderbergh’s new film Kimi will premiere in Australia, next month on Foxtel.
The thriller, which will debut On Demand at 7.01pm Thursday, February 10, stars Zoë Kravitz – from Big Little Lies, upcoming The Batman – and centres around modern digital surveillance.
The film follows agoraphobic tech worker Angela Childs (Kravitz) – a voice stream interpreter – who discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime caught on a digital listening assistant named Kimi during an ordinary data stream review.
“I think a woman might need my help. How do I find out who she is?” she asks one of a friend as she goes down a cyber rabbit hole to find the victim’s identity in the trailer.
Met with resistance and bureaucracy when trying to report it up the chain of command at her company, she realises that to get involved, she will have to do the thing she fears the most – leave her apartment.
The action-packed trailer sees her on a chase through a data storage room and around the city before she is kidnapped and forced into a black van amid a protest in which the crowd wears face masks, hinting at Covid-19’s presence in the narrative.
The film also stars Byron Bowers (No Sudden Move), Jaime Camil (Schmigadoon), Erika Christensen (Traffic), Derek DelGaudio (Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself) and Robin Givens (Riverdale).
Alongside them is Charles Halford (Logan Lucky), Devin Retray (Side Effects), Jacob Vargas (The 33), with Rita Wilson (the Mamma Mia! films).
Soderbergh directed Kimi from a script by acclaimed screenwriter David Koepp, who has written films such as Jurassic Park, 2002’s Spider-Man and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.
The Academy Award-winning director produced the film with frequent collaborator Michael Polaire and Koepp produced.
Kimi will premiere On Demand on Foxtel at 7.01pm Thursday, February 10.