Click here for full details, terms, and Frequently Asked Questions. PS5 console owners can enjoy six months trial access to Apple TV+ for no additional cost. Trying to hone in on that personal point of view of a character in a film elevates any action or any context that you would put it in. If you’re playing Call of Duty, the real power of those games is the ability to make you feel fear, or triumph, the gamut of emotions when you’re in the thick of this epic, intimate, or claustrophobic experience. At the same time, the way I try to approach those big battle scenes is to look for the intimate moments…action gets very boring very quickly if it has no character motivation, or if it has no real point to it. Was Finch a different or complementary experience to your previous work? You’ve directed some of the biggest episodes of Game of Thrones, episodes with massive-scale battle scenes. Something to be nurtured, not pushed down. But, I think that idea of hope and optimism in the middle of an apocalypse is something unique. He also has a stubbornness, an inability to listen properly, and an attitude that is, at times, deeply frustrating to all concerned. He also has naivety, which is terribly dangerous in the wrong hands.

And what he has that Finch has lost is optimism and hope. Jeff, he’s potentially the best and the worst of us. We were looking for a way to explore humanity rather than the depths of the potential depravity of humanity. Does Jeff represent a way for humanity’s legacy to go on? I read a book once that theorized perhaps the natural end point for organic life is to eventually transform into artificial life. To say that Pelinal was a time traveller and was augmented perhaps with technology that could even be similar to what the dwemer had access to, isnt so completely far-fetched. I found there was something beautifully simple and eloquent about that. Where is a robot is 100 machine and is built. Throwing the ball is the dog’s happiest moment.

Interestingly, the dog itself doesn’t give a sh*t. The decision to make sure this dog survives, beyond Finch’s life – it’s an act of desperation…he cannot let this dog perish, he’s got to make this dog survive, because somehow that is hope. There’s something really engaging about the idea that he has a super strong bond with this dog, so that the dog can remind him every day of what a coward he is. In fact, the dog is a reminder of his failure as a human being, to his cowardice. He’s obviously had bad experiences with humans….And then gradually, this story unfolds and you realise that the dog is the survivor of a traumatic event he experienced when he was younger, right in the midst of the apocalypse. One of the turns that I always liked in the script is that you meet this guy, he’s building a robot to look after his dog.

I wanted to start with the dog - what do you think it represents? How does that play out in the story set amidst the end of days?

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