The Gorge (The Gorge) is a 2025 American fantasy adventure horror action film directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay by Zach Dean. The film is set to be released on movie platforms on February 14, 2025.
Two elite snipers — the American Levi (Miles Teller) and the Lithuanian Drasa (Anya Taylor-Joy), working for Russia — are assigned a mysterious mission by their respective nations: to guard opposite sides of a deep and impassable chasm, unaware of what lies beneath. Levi is a private contractor who has not been accepted into the Marine Corps, while Drassa operates in the semi-legal world of covert military operations. All they know is that they are to be in this ultra-classified post for a year, as part of an annual rotation, and to shoot anything that comes out of the chasm. The sniper Levi replaces mentions that the chasm may be a portal to hell, with the film focusing on the mystery surrounding the nature of the chasm. The two snipers quickly become distracted by each other and begin a romantic relationship as unnatural creatures emerge from the chasm.
Zach Dean wrote a speculative script for The Abyss, which was later included in the "Blacklist" of the most-liked unproduced scripts of 2020. In March 2022, Scott Derrickson was selected to direct and produce the film along with Skydance Media. In August, Miles Teller was cast as the lead and executive producer. In October, Anya Taylor-Joy joined the cast, and Apple Original Films also joins the project. Sigourney Weaver was added to the cast in March 2023. Filming begins in March 2023 in London, with production also taking place in the studios. Warner Bros....in Leavesden and in Wales.
Glenn Kenny of The New York Times gave the film a positive review, saying, "'The Gorge' takes an already implausible premise and then catapults it from the spy genre into science fiction and horror... this film sparkles most as a lively pas de deux between Taylor-Joy and Teller, who take their material commendably seriously, no matter how seriously ridiculous it gets." Jack Coyle of The Associated Press gave the film one and a half stars out of four, calling it "ridiculous" and "absurd", arguing that the tonal transitions between action and romance are not of high quality, with the film feeling like "an intriguing but empty genre mash-up and an exercise in "just for show". Coyle also criticized the main plot, stating, "If some version of hell were open, would we, perhaps, want more than two guards?"„
