Earlier this month, Netflix announced that writer/director Charlie Kaufman's I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, an adaptation of author Iain Reid's "deeply scary and intensely unnerving" debut novel (which you can buy a copy of at THIS LINK), will be available to watch on the streaming service as of September 4th. Now Entertainment Weekly has gotten their hands on a couple images from the film, and those can be seen below.
These images give us our first look at characters played by Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, and David Thewlis.
The story of I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS begins as
a sort of moody couple's road trip, in which Jake and his girlfriend drive out to his (slightly haunted) childhood home for her to meet his parents. On the way there, the sense slowly builds that things aren't quite what they seem; upon arrival, the pair are thrust in directions that bend the laws of reality, memory, and love.
I was sold on this project as soon as I heard that it was a thriller from Kaufman, the writer of such films as BEING JOHN MALKOVICH and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, as well as the director of ANOMALISA and SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK. If you've had your mind blown by any of his previous work, it sounds like he might have a similar experience in store for you this time around – though he says he doesn't "set out to do a mindf*ck".
I'm not setting out to do something that 'tops' some sort of brainteaser I might have done before. But there's no question that I'm trying to build on the stuff that I've already done."
I'm really looking forward to checking out I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS this September.