How Bill Skarsgård’s Thriller Locked Pulled Off That Wild SUV Shot [Exclusive]

In the new “Locked”, Bill Scarsgard is playing a lucky young man named Eddie who is divided into a luxury four -wheel drive vehicle in an attempt to earn some money to support his family. Unfortunately, for Eddie, this SUV owner is a distorted, defined obsessed named William (Anthony Hopkins), who closes Eddie from a distance and tortured him for several days in an attempt to teach him a lesson on right and wrong. A large percentage of the film occurs inside this car where we besiege there with Eddie, and in the wrong hands, exploring such a small space may be very boring, very boring, very quickly.

Fortunately, director David Yarovsky (“Brightpern”) knows how to keep things out of interest visually. In a recent interview (you can hear it completely below), tell me everything about how he and his collaborators stick to two distinguished cinemas throughout the movie: outside the car, the portable camera moves in a way that raises an independent movie, reflecting Eddie’s solid life. But inside, we are in the world of William, the camera movements are more smooth, more planned and methodological to represent the amount of control that he has on the Bonkers trap he set.

It is better to embody the last style in the shot where Eddie is first divided into the car. The camera revolves around the car several times where Eddie searches through it, searching for anything of value, and follows him as he tries to expel the windows after he realizes that he is closed. The camera moves in a way that would have had to cut it through the physical body of the SUVs in order to achieve it with its rotation, so I asked Yaroves if there was a photography. Everything outside the windows using the visible effects in the post -production.

no. It turns out that the real answer is more practical – and as a result, it is more cold.

To facilitate the rotation around the camera around Eddie (which was originally Glen Powell!) When he entered the SUV, the production designer Grant Armstrong discovered how to build a practical version of the car that cannot do things that the audience will never notice. Here is how Yarovsky explained:

“We built the collection on a platform with built -in bars on the platform. The group in the parts. Each piece of the car can slip on the bars easily. [mimics an explosion outward] Or come like this [mimics the opposite action]. So what you see is happening, one piece simultaneously, a part of the car slides with the camera appears and returns so that you do not see it. And so on, and so on, we just run, 360 degrees around it, only play and watch the events that play in this modest methodological snapshot. “

Is “closed” my favorite movie for 2025? no. But this level of creativity and attention to details led to “how they did Do this? “A moment for me, and I respect these directors to go to the extra tendency to create an overwhelming experience for the public – and do this in practice rather than get out.

My colleague BJ ColaGelo talked about “Locked”, which is based on the 2019 Argentinian Arromeler movie called “4×4”, in today’s episode of The /Film Daily Podcast, which also contains my full interview with David Yarovesky. Listen here:

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