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KIMI Movie Watch – news and insider info on the KIMI movie (TBA).

Steven Soderbergh and Zoey Kravitz

About the KIMI movie.

KIMI is a high-tech thriller that captures the essence of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the social impact it had on America. Locked in because of quarantine, work from home, big-tech spying, cops shooting citizens crazy politicians, protests in Seattle – what more could be said about the disastrously difficult year of 2020? Kimi certainly has a lot to work with.

KIMI is directed by Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Traffic, Contagion, Magic Mike, Oceans 11) and stars Zoë Kravitz, Byron Bowers, Jaime Camil, Jacob Vargas, and Erika Christensen. According to the official movie synopsis:

“During the COVID-19 pandemic in Seattle, an agoraphobic tech worker discovers evidence of a violent crime while reviewing a data stream, and is met with resistance and bureaucracy when she tries reporting it to her company. To get involved, she realizes she must face her greatest fear by venturing out of her apartment and into the city streets, which are filled with protestors after the city council passes a law restricting the movements of the homeless population.”

KIMI was announced on February 25, 2021 by New Line Cinema with Zoe Kravitz (X-Men: First Class, Divergent, Fantastic Beasts, Mad Max: Fury Road, The LEGO Batman movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Batman) on board to star. In March 2021, it was reported that Byron Bowers, Jaime Camil, Jacob Vargas and Derek DelGaudio joined the cast. In April 2021, Erika Christensen and Devin Ratray joined the cast of the film. Principle photography began in April 2021 in Los Angeles where many interior scenes are filmed. In May 2021, the production moved to Seattle to film exterior scenes.

The movie will be streamed on HBO.

KIMI movie watch – news, leaks, insider info, and more.

Steven Soderbergh reveals more details about KIMI. (June 30, 2021)

Steven Soderbergh revealed a few more details about KIMI in a podcast interview. According to Soderbergh, Kimi will be set in the present date, where the aftermath of COVID-19 plays a part in the story because “it ties into certain psychological issues that our lead character is battling”. He added:

“Overlaid is a very contemporary, zeitgeist-y issue of giant tech companies who have a lot of listening devices in a lot of homes What are they picking up? What if you worked for one of these companies analyzing streams that have been flagged for some reason or another, that the voice recognition software – there’s some aspect of this recording that it doesn’t understand or it has a question about, and it gets kicked to a human analyst to listen to it. So they can go, ‘Oh, that’s a slang term that this thing hasn’t heard of. Now I’ve got to load it into the system so the software can now recognize it.’ This is what this person’s job is. And she hears something that sounds not cool…It’s pretty much the 2021 version of The Conversation] and a little bit of Rear Window, and a little bit of Panic Room.”

Photos from filming of Kimi in Seattle (May 8, 2021)

Some folks in the Seattle were kind enough to take pictures of Soderbergh and the gang filming KIMI and share on Twitter.

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