Dave Franco and Alison Brie Make Their Own 'The Substance'
Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Lauren Graham, and more dropped by Entertainment Weekly's Shutterstock portrait studio at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Check out the pics!
“Did we?,” retorts Brie, “Did you hear having an Eyes Whide Shut moment?” Franco answers, “We knew because of just how intense the shoot is going to be, how intense our dynamic is, what we go through that it was going to be so full on. We joked this either ends in divorce or we’re more co-dependent than ever. Luckily it was the latter.”
Michael Shanks' movie is megaplex-ready, but it's an over-the-top horror film with something on its mind.
In "Together," Dave Franco and Alison Brie play a couple struggling with codependency when their life is thrown for a bonkers loop.
Real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie aren't against rumors that Franco could portray accused CEO shooter Luigi Mangione in a potential film, the pair told TheWrap at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Sunday.
A romantic relationship is a union, and Together takes that idea to its gonzo extreme. A playfully gory Cronenbergian comedy that picks up where The Substance left off, Michael Shanks’ directorial debut mines a couple’s stresses and strains for gruesome outrageousness that lets audiences in on the joke without resorting to wink-wink self-consciousness.
Dave Franco and Alison Brie attend the premiere of "Together" during the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, at the Eccles Theatre in Park City, Utah. (Photo by
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Although Alison Brie and husband Dave Franco have shared the screen in the past, they truly sink into each other in 'Together'.
Title: Ricky Festival: Sundance (US Dramatic Competition) Sales agent: Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis Director/screenwriter: Rashad Frett Cast: Stephan James, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Titus Welliver, Maliq Johnson, Imani Lewis, Simbi Kali Running time: 1 hr 52 mins
In a joint interview for The Hollywood Reporter with their filmmaker Michael Shanks, the couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco discussed their Sundance genre film Together.