Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor’s dinosaur thriller The End of Oak Street, from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell, hits HBO Max on November 13.
Hathaway and McGregor play Denise and Greg Platt, out looking for the family dog. Inside, their daughter Audrey (Maisy Stella) and son Brian (Christian Convery) run from window to window. They catch sight of a dinosaur’s tail.
The End of Oak Street starts in suburban Michigan in 1982. A cosmic event tears the Platts’ entire street out of town, houses and all, and drops it in a prehistoric world. The Platts still have a front door that opens onto their own street. Follow the road one way and it ends at the water. Go the other way and there’s a cliff.
David Robert Mitchell, who wrote and directed It Follows, has spent years thinking about what kids see when they look past the end of the block. Growing up, he could see a dead-end street and the woods beyond it from his yard. The image that helped him figure out Oak Street was a dinosaur picking through the neighborhood trash.
Mitchell once told Cannes’ Critics’ Week that he’d wondered what would happen if the teenagers from his first film, The Myth of the American Sleepover, found themselves in a supernatural story. That thought was part of It Follows. For Oak Street, Mitchell kept coming back to how safe a house feels until there’s a large animal just outside it.
The End of Oak Street is already available to rent or buy digitally. It starts streaming on HBO Max on Friday, November 13, and airs on HBO on Saturday, November 14 at 8 p.m. ET.
