Discussion about Depth and other movies

[Paddy™]

Regarding the possibility of future live action films: I think given the speed with which the first two were made (a couple of weeks to produce and a few days to shoot) I don't see why they wouldn't do more teasers. In his blog post about the announcement of SOMA, Thomas wrote this about the films:

It has to be mentioned how quickly these films were put together. The first script drafts + instructions were sent on the 2nd of september. This meant they had a less than a month to produce the first movie. Then another movie needed to be done a week after that. Given the amount steps needed to go from script to final film, this is insanely fast.

In this interview with Don Thacker (the director) he says:

There's a secret, that I think I can tell a little bit of; there will be more of those videos for you guys, a lot more, and I'm not saying that there might be a long enough video to go see in a movie theatre - but there might!

Of course the long video he mentions is "Depth", but I'm encouraged by his comment about "[a lot] more of those videos". Given how huge of a gap there would be between now and the release of the game/Depth if nothing else were produced, and how relatively quickly/easily the teasers can be made, and considering the 5 empty slots on the SOMA website, I'm inclined to believe that more videos are due.

"Depth" will have taken way more effort to organise and manage, given the number of actors (with their individual schedules which need to be worked around), the much larger crew, the stunt training, the extra resources required for shooting on location, etc. That it was filmed now but won't be released until next year doesn't necessarily tell us that no other films will come; the size of that production demanded coordination which made it necessary to get it done sooner rather than later. After the post-production phase I think they'll be free to do plenty more 2-week teaser shoots with tiny crews in a green box at LeftJet Studios