Seeking a Friend For The End of the World Poster Debuts
Darkly themed Focus Features dramedy pairs Steve Carell and Keira Knightley and opens in June.
Yahoo Movies have released the first poster for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, the darkly themed Focus Features dramedy that pairs Steve Carell and Keira Knightley. Set in a not too distant future, the movie follows an unlikely friendship/romance between a guy (Carell) and a younger female neighbour (Knightley) as they set out to find the formers high school sweetheart on the eve of an apocalypse. The indie film marks the directorial debut of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist screenwriter Lorene Scafaria and is a project co-star Keira Knightley has talked up greatly in interviews, telling The Playlist last month; "It's about what happens when you know you've only got about twenty days until an asteroid hits Earth, and what happens to society in that time. It's a very, very dark comedy. It's also weirdly for its subject matter incredibly optimistic and sort of life-affirming. I thought it was one of the best scripts I've read, really," Seeking a Friend For the End of the World is scheduled for a June 22nd release and could be a tearjerker. Carell and Knightley have become astute at picking interesting and films with plenty of pathos lately, so we have high hopes for this. Even if the poster itself is a little disappointing.