Sundance is concerning the diamonds within the tough, and James Sweeney’s sophomore directing effort, Twinless, during which he stars reverse Dylan O’Brien gained the Eccles viewers over on night time one of many Park Metropolis competition’s 2025 version. The Republic Photos title is up on the market.
Sweeney billed the film as a bit “DePalma and grief drama,” the story a few younger man Dennins (performed by Sweeney) who loses his homosexual lover Rocky tragically (played by O’Brien). Nonetheless, Rocky has a twin brother, Roman. Each Roman and Dennis discover one another in a twin-loss bereavaement group, and a posh bromance sprouts.
The pic reps a return to Sundance for producer David Permut who bought the Jack Black comedy Polka King to Netflix, and for O’Brien who was right here final 12 months with Ponyboi. Sweeney gave props to Permut who found him at OutFest for his movie Straight Up.
Twinless comes from Author-director-actor James Sweeney. It’s his Sundance debut. Sweeney had been engaged on the script for ten years, and despatched it to O’Brien again in 2020.
“I noticed all the Mazerunner motion pictures in theaters,” he joked of how O’Brien acquired on his radar. “It was truly this YouTube sequence known as Bizarre Metropolis if anybody’s seen it. He’s within the pilot episode.”
“I felt like he noticed my voice and he felt so assured in it,” he added about his main man O’Brien, who “takes possession for each emotional shift and beat” of the position of twins that he performs within the movie.
“I’ve at all times been impressed together with his vary,” mentioned Sweeney, “I felt that this might be a special position for him.”
On how he achieved the intriguing tempo of the script, Sweeney revealed “They are saying you write a movie 3 times — as soon as within the script stage, as soon as on set, and as soon as in edit.”
O’Brien added, “I opened this script, and I couldn’t cease.” He additional exclaimed that the multihyphenate is “each component of a meticulous filmmaker.”
