Arriving in theaters this weekend is Aneesh Chaganty’s Searching, which previously enjoyed its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival under the title Search. Starring John Cho, Debra Messing, and Michelle La, Searching is centered on a missing teen named Margot (La) and her father (Cho), who is desperate to be reunited with his daughter. A local detective named Rosemary Vick (Messing) heads up the search for Margot, but as the pieces of Searching’s puzzle fall into place, what really happened to the teenager may be just as unexpected as the revelations about what she’s been up to without her dad even noticing.
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to attend the press day for Searching, where we chatted with Chaganty, Cho, and Messing about their involvement in the innovative project, how they handled the challenges of shooting the film (which exists solely through the screens of various devices), and their thoughts on the timeliness and urgency of the themes at the core of Searching in this day and age.
Look for Searching in select theaters this Friday, followed by a wide US theatrical release on August 31st courtesy of Sony Pictures.
Heather A. Wixson was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, until she followed her dreams and moved to Los Angeles in 2009. A 14-year veteran in the world of horror entertainment journalism, Wixson fell in love with genre films at a very early age, and has spent more than a decade as a writer and supporter of preserving the history of horror and science fiction cinema. Throughout her career, Wixson has contributed to several notable websites, including Fangoria, Dread Central, Terror Tube, and FEARnet, and she currently serves as the Managing Editor for Daily Dead, which has been her home since 2013. She's also written for both Fangoria Magazine & ReMind Magazine, and her latest book project, Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume One will be released on October 20, 2021.
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