Bleeker Street Films has dropped a first trailer for “Love Me” which deal with the advancement of AI and the end of humanity, one of the two main topics that dominate our conversation in our current society. It also happens to be a comedy about romance.
Imagine the possibilities of learning about humanity solely through our digital platform. To us, it seems like suitable material for a psychological horror film, but writer-directors Sam and Andy Zuchero use it as the premise of their feature-length documentary.
Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun play two robots in Love Me, one stranded in the ocean (Stewart) and the other orbiting Earth (Yeun), who connect on the internet and fall in love.
After humanity’s demise in the near future, Stewart and Yeun’s AIs use the vast collection of information, including YouTube lifestyle content, to imitate what they think two humans would look like over billions of years. Those humans then fall in love.
“We wanted to make a movie that would make you feel big and small at the same time,” married directors Sam and Andy Zuchero told People. “It’s the story of two completely new beings—the AI in two machines—who evolve into virtual avatars and then into flesh and blood humans.”
A breakout at Sundance last year, Love Me is the Zucheros’s first feature and uses a mix of animation, live action, animatronics, and game engine software to tell the “longest-spanning love story ever told,” a logline reads. Love Me hits theaters January 31.