Just last week, Sony announced that they would be giving the “Searching sequel” Missing a theatrical release on January 20, 2023 – and now they have unveiled the trailer for the film! You can check it out in the embed above.
Made on a budget of less than $1 million, the mystery thriller Searching (read our review HERE), which played out entirely on computer and smartphone screens, earned over $75 million at the global box office when it was released back in 2018. So the creative team behind that film have gotten back together to bring us the mystery thriller Missing, which will be presented in the same way as Searching was.
Details on the plot of Missing have been kept under wraps up to this point, but now we have a synopsis:
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers… and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
The film stars Storm Reid (The Invisible Man) and Nia Long (NCIS: Los Angeles).
Searching was about a father whose teenage daughter had gone missing, so it’s clever that this follow-up of sorts has flipped things around to have a daughter looking for her missing mother.
Missing was directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick, the editors of Searching, from a screenplay they wrote, working from a story provided by Searching writer/director Aneesh Chaganty and co-writer Sev Ohanian. Chaganty and Ohanian also produced the film alongside Natalie Qasabian, with Timur Bekmambetov, Adam Sidman, and Jo Henriquez serving as executive producers.
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