A tasty little teaser for Adrian Lyne’s “Deep Water” was unveiled by HULU this morning. It features the kind of sexual dynamics, not to mention blatant eroticism, that made Lyne a household name for the better part of two decades.
The release delays that have affected this film have been very frustrating for all the creatives involved. Production on the film started in November of 2019 and wrapped before that year was done. It was originally scheduled for release on November 13, 2020, but was then delayed to August 13, 2021, and again to January 14, 2022. It will finally be screened on March 18th, 2022 via HULU streaming.
I wrote in late 2021:
The rumor had been that a streamer was willing to buy “Deep Water” off of Disney’s hands, who were none-too-pleased by the film’s hard R-rating, not to mention its staggering 2 hour and 33 minute runtime and the recently broken up Affleck/De Armas refusing to do promotion on the film.
Then the film was finally sent straight to HULU for streaming in the States and sold to Amazon Prime for the rest of the world. Disney is doing a fire sale on anything left over from 20th Century Fox deal. They’ve laid-off or fired almost 75% of those employees over the last two years. They also have, unintentionally, had the Fox films fail miserably at the box-office, with “The Last Duel” and “West Side Story.”
There is no reason for “Deep Water” to go to streaming. The script was written by Sam Levinson (“Euphoria”) and directed by Adrian Lyne (“Fatal Attraction”). It’s a film meant for mature audiences, but we all know that the over 35 demographic just isn’t ready to go back to theatres.