Garth Davis’ “Foe” screened for press at the New York Film Festival, and the reactions aren’t good. Scratch this one off as any kind of contender.
The sci-fi film has a 9% on Rotten Tomatoes (based on 11 reviews) and 45 on Metacritic. Ouch. Amidst the Telluride/TIFF/Venice deluge, NYFF was hungry to screen a few world premieres, but this choice seems to have backfired.
The film, set in 2065, stars Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal as a couple living out in the middle of the desert who have their calm life rattled when a mysterious stranger (Aaron Pierre) comes knocking at their door one night.
A trailer was released last month. The film is set to be released on October 6th, via Amazon. Davis broke out with his 2016 Oscar-nominated feature “Lion,” he then struck out with his follow-up, “Mary Magdelene.”
Bassim Tariq was the first one in the chair. The "Mogul Mowgli" director spent two years building out the Mahershala Ali vehicle before exiting in 2022, and he's now letting the air out on this one.