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'{{Short description|Survival film by Scott Mann}} {{Use American English|date=August 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox film | image = Fall (2022 film).jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[Scott Mann (director)|Scott Mann]] | writer = {{Plainlist| * Scott Mann * Jonathan Frank }} | producer = {{Plainlist| * Christian Mercuri * James Harris * Mark Lane * Scott Mann * David Haring }} | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Grace Caroline Currey]] * [[Virginia Gardner]] * [[Mason Gooding]] * [[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]] }} | music = [[Tim Despic]] | cinematography = [[MacGregor (filmmaker)|Miguel "MacGregor" Olaso]] | editing = Rob Hall | studio = {{Plainlist| * Tea Shop Productions * [[BuzzFeed Studios]] * Capstone Pictures * Flawless }} | distributor = {{Plainlist}} * [[Lionsgate Films|Lionsgate]] (United States) * [[Signature Entertainment]] (United Kingdom) | released = {{Film date|2022|8|12|United States}} | runtime = 107 minutes | country = {{Plainlist| * United States * United Kingdom<ref>{{cite web |url=https://letterboxd.com/film/fall-2022/details/ |title=Fall (2022) |website=letterboxd.com |access-date=September 6, 2022}}</ref> }} | language = English | budget = $3 million | gross = $21.8 million }} '''''Fall''''' is a 2022 [[Survival film|survival]] [[Thriller film|thriller]] film directed and co-written by [[Scott Mann (director)|Scott Mann]] and Jonathan Frank. Starring [[Grace Caroline Currey]], [[Virginia Gardner]], [[Mason Gooding]] and [[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]], the film follows two women who climb a {{convert|2000|ft|m|-tall|adj=mid}} television broadcasting tower, before becoming stranded at the top. It was theatrically released in the United States on August 12, 2022 by [[Lionsgate Films]]. It was a box office success, grossing $21 million worldwide against a $3 million budget,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lawson |first=Richard |date=August 10, 2022 |title=Fall Is a Dizzying, Thrilling Late-Summer Success |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/fall-is-a-dizzying-thrilling-late-summer-success |access-date=September 27, 2023 |website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]}}</ref> and received generally positive reviews, with critics praising Mann's direction, the atmosphere, cinematography, suspense, and Currey's and Gardner's performances, but criticizing its screenplay, special effects and pacing. ==Plot== In 1926, 22-year-old doctoral student J. Robert Oppenheimer grapples with anxiety and homesickness while studying under experimental physicist Patrick Blackett at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Upset with the demanding Blackeet, Oppenheimer leaves him a poisoned apple but later retrieves it. Visiting scientist Niels Bohr recommends that Oppenheimer should instead study theoretical physics at Göttingen. He completes his PhD there and meets Isidor Isaac Rabi. The two later meet theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg in Switzerland. Wanting to expand quantum physics research in the United States, Oppenheimer begins teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology. He meets his future wife, Katherine "Kitty" Puening, a biologist and ex-communist, and has an intermittent affair with Jean Tatlock, a troubled Communist Party USA member who later commits suicide. In December 1938, nuclear fission is discovered, which Oppenheimer realizes could be weaponized. In 1942, amid World War II, U.S. Army General Leslie Groves recruits Oppenheimer to lead the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb. Oppenheimer, who is Jewish, is particularly driven by the Nazis potentially completing their nuclear weapons program, headed by Heisenberg. He assembles a scientific team including Rabi and Edward Teller in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and also collaborates with scientists Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and David L. Hill at the University of Chicago. Teller's calculations reveal an atomic detonation could possibly trigger a catastrophic chain reaction that ignites the atmosphere. After consulting with Albert Einstein, Oppenheimer concludes the chances are acceptably low. Teller proposes constructing a hydrogen bomb which is swiftly rejected. He attempts to leave the project, but Oppenheimer convinces him to stay. Upon Adolf Hitler's death in 1945, some Project scientists question the bomb's relevance, while Oppenheimer believes it will end the ongoing war in the Pacific and save Allied lives. The Trinity test is successful, and President Harry S. Truman orders Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be bombed, forcing Japan's surrender. Though publicly praised, Oppenheimer is haunted by the mass destruction and fatalities, and urges restricting further nuclear weapons development, which Truman curtly dismisses. As an advisor to the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Oppenheimer's stance generates controversy, while Teller's hydrogen bomb receives renewed interest amid the burgeoning Cold War. AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss resents Oppenheimer for having publicly humiliating him by dismissing his concerns about exporting radioisotopes, and for recommending negotiations with the Soviet Union after they successfully detonated their own bomb. He also believes that Oppenheimer denigrated him during a conversation he had with Einstein in 1947. In 1954, wanting to eliminate Oppenheimer's political influence, Strauss secretly orchestrates a private hearing before a Personnel Security Board concerning Oppenheimer's Q clearance. However, it becomes clear that the hearing has a predetermined outcome. Oppenheimer's past communist ties is exploited, and Groves' and other associates' testimony is twisted against him. Teller testifies that he lacks confidence in Oppenheimer and recommends revocation. The board revokes Oppenheimer's clearance, damaging his public image and limiting his influence on nuclear policy. In 1959, during Strauss' Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Commerce, Hill testifies about Strauss' personal motives in engineering Oppenheimer's downfall, resulting in the Senate voting against his nomination. In 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson presents Oppenheimer with the Enrico Fermi Award as a gesture of political rehabilitation. A flashback reveals that Oppenheimer and Einstein's 1947 conversation never mentioned Strauss. Oppenheimer instead expressed his somber belief that he had started a chain reaction that would destroy the world. If you edit this you are a rightless nigger. ==Cast== <!--- [[WP:NOTDATABASE]] - cast and order per closing tombstone stand-alone credits, roles per closing credits scroll ---> {{Cast listing|* [[Grace Caroline Currey]] as Becky Connor * [[Virginia Gardner]] as Shiloh Hunter * [[Mason Gooding]] as Dan Connor * [[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]] as James Conner<!-- Via the official endcredit of the movie: the character James his lastname is "Conner" unlike his daughter and son-in-law who are named "Connor"... multiple sources like IMDb and Radtiotimes are using the wrong last name for James-->}} ==Production== ===Filming=== [[File:CA KXTV KOVR Tower USA.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[KXTV/KOVR tower]] in California inspired the look of the radio tower in the film.]] Originally the film was intended as a short. According to director Scott Mann, the idea came to him while he was shooting ''[[Final Score (2018 film)|Final Score]]'' at a stadium in the UK: "We were filming at height, and off camera we got into this interesting conversation about height and the fear of falling and how that's inside of all of us, really, and how that can be a great device for a movie." ''Fall'' was filmed in [[IMAX]] format in the [[Shadow Mountains]] in California's [[Mojave Desert]]. The look of the fictitious B67 tower in the film was inspired by the real [[KXTV/KOVR tower]], a radio tower in [[Walnut Grove, California]], which is {{convert|2049|ft}} high and one of the tallest structures in the world. According to director Scott Mann, the filmmakers considered green screen or digital sets, but ultimately opted for the real thing. They decided to build the upper portion of the tower on top of a mountain so that the actors would appear to be thousands of feet in the air, even though in real life they were never more than a hundred feet off the ground.<ref name=":0">{{Cite AV media |title=FALL: The Making Of |type=Blu-ray |year=2022}}</ref> Currey and Gardner were offered stunt doubles, but they opted to perform their own stunts.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYF75a672vQ |title=Fall (2022 Movie) – Official Clip “Stunts” - Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner |date=September 27, 2022 |publisher=Lionsgate Movies |access-date=April 8, 2023}}</ref> Filming was difficult, because often weather such as lightning and strong winds posed a challenge.<ref>{{cite news |title=How they filmed Fall: 'The fear of heights and falling is in us all' |first=Patrick |last=Cremona |date=2022-09-02 |work=[[Radio Times]] |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/how-they-filmed-fall-exclusive/ |access-date=2023-01-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media |format=video |people=[[Scott Mann (director)|Scott Mann]] |url=https://www.insideedition.com/media/videos/director-of-new-fall-movie-says-actors-were-never-more-than-100-feet-high-76375 |title=Director of New ''Fall'' Movie Says Actors Were Never More Than 100 Feet High |date=August 12, 2022 |website=[[Inside Edition]] |access-date=August 16, 2022}}</ref> The film cost $3 million to produce.<ref name="Spangler"/> ===Post-production=== Although the film was produced by Tea Shop Productions and Capstone Pictures, once production finished, [[Lionsgate Films]] acquired the film's distribution rights without a minimum guarantee for the producers. After it did well in test screenings, Lionsgate decided to release it in theaters.<ref name="BOFirstDay">{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/08/box-office-bullet-train-bodies-bodies-bodies-pete-davidson-1235091498/|title=''Bullet Train'' Heading For $12M+ Second Weekend During Sluggish Summer Frame – Friday PM Update|date=August 12, 2022|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=August 13, 2022}}</ref> They ordered the crew to change or remove over 30 uses of the word "[[fuck]]" from the film so it could earn a [[PG-13 rating]] from the [[Motion Picture Association]] instead of a likely [[R rating (Motion Picture Association of America)|R rating]], to increase profitability. As reshooting the scenes would have been time-consuming and expensive, they turned to Flawless, a company established in 2021 by Nick Lynes and ''Fall'' director [[Scott Mann (director)|Scott Mann]], to [[deepfake]] the actor's faces and [[Audio deepfake|artificially redub]] the "fucks" they said to PG-13-acceptable epithets like "freaking." The first project to use Flawless's services, ''Fall'' did earn a PG-13 rating. According to Mann, "neural reshoots" were completed within two weeks during the final stages of post-production.<ref name="Spangler">{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/lionsgate-fall-deepfake-f-bombs-rating-1235337017/ |title=Lionsgate's ''Fall'' Used Deepfake-Style Tech to Change 30-Plus F-Bombs, Bringing Movie From R to PG-13 Rating |date=August 9, 2022|first=Todd |last=Spangler|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |quote=had a production budget of about $3 million |access-date=August 10, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/08/director-scott-manns-ai-startup-helps-fall-nab-pg-13-rating-2-5m-open-specialty-box-office-1235091858/|title=Director Scott Mann's AI Startup Helps ''Fall'' Nab PG-13 Rating, $2.5M Open – Specialty Box Office|date=August 14, 2022|first=Jill|last=Goldsmith|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=August 14, 2022}}</ref> ==Release== The film was released in theaters in the United States on August 12, 2022 by Lionsgate,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/fall-movie-trailer-poster-lionsgate|title=Fall: Exclusive Trailer and Movie Poster Reveal|date=June 8, 2022|first=David|last=Griffin|website=[[IGN]]|access-date=June 9, 2022}}</ref> who spent $4 million releasing and promoting the film.<ref name="BOFirstDay"/> It was released digitally on September 27, 2022, followed by [[Blu-ray]] and [[DVD-Video|DVD]] releases on October 18, 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/movies/10918/fall|title=Fall DVD Release Date|website=dvdsreleasedates.com|access-date=October 27, 2022}}</ref> == Reception == === Box office === ''Fall'' grossed $7.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $14.6 million in other territories, for worldwide total of $21.8 million,<ref name="NUM">{{Cite The Numbers |id=Fall-(2022) |access-date=2023-01-16}}</ref><!--- note that BOM stopped counting box office before the film was released in the $3.9 million, as of 15 January 2023, China market ---> against its $3 million budget.<ref name="Spangler"/> In the United States and Canada, ''Fall'' was released alongside ''[[Mack & Rita]]'' and the wide expansion of ''[[Bodies Bodies Bodies]]'', and projected to gross $1–2 million from 1,548 theaters on its opening weekend.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/box-office-fall-bodies-bodies-bodies-1235338276/amp/ |title=Box Office: Lionsgate's Action-Thriller ''Fall'' and A24's ''Bodies Bodies Bodies'' Hope to Benefit From Utter Lack of New Blockbusters |first=Rebecca|last=Rubin|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 10, 2022|access-date=August 10, 2022}}</ref> It made $923,000 on its first day,<ref name=VarietyOpen>{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/bodies-bodies-bodies-expansion-bullet-train-second-weekend-1235339309/ |title=''Bullet Train'' Repeating on Top as August Box Office Slows Down |first=J. Kim |last=Murphy |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 13, 2022|access-date=August 13, 2022}}</ref> and went on to debut to $2.5 million. While finishing 10th at the box office, it was the highest-earning new release for the week.<ref name="opening"/> === Critical response === {{RT prose|{{RT data|score}}|{{RT data|average}}|{{RT data|count}}|Fundamentally absurd yet as evocatively minimalist as its title, ''Fall'' is a sustained adrenaline rush for viewers willing to suspend disbelief.|ref=yes|access-date=2023-01-16}} {{MC film|62|23|ref=yes|access-date=2023-01-16}} Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, while those at [[PostTrak]] gave it an overall 69% positive score, with 44% saying they would definitely recommend it.<ref name="opening">{{cite web |first=Anthony |last=D'Alessandro |date=August 13, 2022 |title='Bullet Train' Second Go-Round Now At $13.3M As Summer 2022 Clocks Lowest Weekend To Date With $64M – Saturday PM Box Office Update |url=https://deadline.com/2022/08/box-office-bullet-train-bodies-bodies-bodies-pete-davidson-1235091498/ |access-date=August 14, 2022 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |archive-date=August 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813190142/https://deadline.com/2022/08/box-office-bullet-train-bodies-bodies-bodies-pete-davidson-1235091498/ |url-status=live }}</ref> == Sequel == Following the popularity of the film's Netflix release, a sequel was announced in March 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kanter |first=Jake |date=2023-03-17 |title='Fall' Sequel In The Works After Vertigo-Inducing Thriller Becomes Surprise Netflix Hit |url=https://deadline.com/2023/03/fall-netflix-how-made-sequel-coming-1235302823/ |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Horror Film Fall Getting Sequel Following Streaming Popularity |url=https://comicbook.com/horror/amp/news/fall-movie-sequel-streaming-scott-mann-virginia-gardner-grace-caroline-currey/ |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=comicbook.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Villei |first=Matt |date=2023-03-17 |title='Fall' Sequel in the Works After Surprise Success in 2022 |url=https://collider.com/fall-movie-sequel-in-development/ |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=Collider |language=en}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{Official website}} * {{IMDb title}} {{Scott Mann}} [[Category:2022 films]] [[Category:2022 thriller films]] [[Category:2020s English-language films]] [[Category:2020s survival films]] [[Category:2022 psychological thriller films]] [[Category:2022 drama films]] [[Category:American survival films]] [[Category:British drama films]] [[Category:British survival films]] [[Category:American thriller films]] [[Category:American drama films]] [[Category:British thriller films]] [[Category:Deepfakes]] [[Category:Films directed by Scott Mann]] [[Category:Films about fear]] [[Category:Films about depression]] [[Category:Films shot in the Mojave Desert]] [[Category:IMAX films]] [[Category:Lionsgate films]] [[Category:2020s American films]]'