MANILA, Philippines - There’s a new kind of high in the movie Chronicle among three best friends Andrew, Matt and Steve set in a very familiar American landscape — high school students in a campus where each fraction of a teen either make themselves seen or invisible.
Directed by Josh Trank, James Dehaan, Alex Russell and Michael B. Jordan play the lead roles in the edgy teen movie where they pit on each other’s newly-acquired superpowers.
Andrew (Dehaan) coming from a poor family with a rough background has always been the subject of bullying, Matt (Russell) is Andrew’s cousin in his senior year and has applied a nihilistic approach through his high school years and Steve (Jordan) is the most popular guy in their school whose congenial personality made him friends with even the most introvert kid in the campus. Together, they bonded in one wild night of partying when they discovered something unnatural in the woods.
Trank presents Chronicle by throwing out any preconceptions on superhero movie, starting afresh with a core group of well-realized characters and using a shooting style with a YouTube feel. “It’s exciting because we can create this new style of shooting things without having to do it in the way everybody’s been doing it for the last hundred years.”
Chronicle opens tomorrow, Feb. 2, in theaters nationwide.