‘Together' Stars Alison Brie and Dave Franco in a Darkly Twisted Love Story—Here's How to Watch
Real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco co-star in Together, an audacious body‑horror romance from Australian director Michael Shanks. The film, out in theaters today, follows longtime partners Millie and Tim after they move to the countryside—and a supernatural begins to take over.
Shanks has said the movie's high‑concept hook came from a deeply personal place. 'I've only ever wanted to make stuff that has a high concept premise to it. Something where you can kind of sum up in a couple of sentences and go, 'Oh, I haven't seen that movie before,'' he told The AU Review.
'I thought it could be a body horror film, which is a genre I love,' Shanks added. 'I thought it would be a lot of fun to explore and really satisfy the genre freak filmmaker in me.' But the story also includes 'my own kind of personal, emotional truth and specificity of what it feels like to fall in love and share a life with somebody,' he said. 'And not just from my own relationship, but from relationships of people that I've observed.'
Casting Brie and Franco wasn't just a stunt, but integral to bringing the film to life. 'Physically, there was stuff we were doing every day that we truly finished every day of filming, going, 'We couldn't do this with anyone else,'' Brie said told Moviefone.
In the same interview, Franco recalled meeting Shanks and reading the Together script for the first time. 'I read it, and I was just like, 'This is one of the most innovative scripts I've ever read,' he said. 'These set pieces are unbelievable.' I turned to Alison, and I was like, 'I think we should do this together, because our real relationship could help inform these characters in the movie, who have been together for over a decade, and hopefully we could add some real kind of history and weight to that relationship.''
Although Neon has yet to announce an official streaming date for Together, the film is expected to eventually hit Hulu, given Neon's partnership with the streaming platform. Past Neon films, like Anora, have also landed on the platform.
Until then, you can catch the movie on the big screen.
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