The Gift is Carl Rinsch’s entry in Phillips and Ridley Scott’s short film experiment.
Commercial director Carl Erik Rinsch was to have made his directorial debut with the “Alien” prequel. But since that didn’t happen, he took part in electronic giant Philips’ short-film experiment, which allowed five filmmakers to make their own movie using the same piece of dialogue.
Rinsch came up with “The Gift,” a melange of Bourne-with-a-robot, a unicorn Macguffin and a futuristic Moscow-as-police-state setting (oh, wait, that is already here).
On Wednesday, the day the short came out, a bidding war broke out between several studios — longtime rivals Warner Bros. and Fox are in the mix, according to sources — who see feature potential in the short
via Sci-Fi Wire
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