In 2018, director Aneesh Chaganty introduced us Looking, a lacking individuals thriller starring John Cho as a father desperately in search of his daughter. The gimmick was that it occurred virtually completely on laptop and telephone screens, in calls and thru messages. And it was a hit… Now a follow-up, Lacking, is on the best way, albeit with an entire new set of characters in a recent story. See the primary trailer…

The plot this time is analogous, however switches up the genders and scenario. When her mom (Nia Lengthy) disappears whereas on trip in Colombia together with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) seek for solutions is hindered by worldwide purple tape.

Caught hundreds of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively makes use of all the most recent expertise at her fingertips to try to discover her earlier than it’s too late. However as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises extra questions than solutions – and when June unravels secrets and techniques about her mother, she discovers that she by no means actually knew her in any respect…

Chaganty right here arms over the directing reins to Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick, engaged on the story with the administrators and Looking co-writer Sev Ohanian.

Can it replicate the success? We’ll discover out when the movie arrives within the UK on 24 February.

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