Exclusive: Riz Ahmed, Aditya Geddada and Lucian-River Chauhan talk Encounter
Currently playing theaters and on Prime Video from Amazon Studios is the sci-fi thriller Encounter, directed by Michael Pearce and starring Oscar nominee Riz Ahmed, Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer, Rory Cochrane, Lucian-River Chauhan and Aditya Geddada.
A decorated marine, Malik Khan (Ahmed) is trained to identify risk. But what if the risk appears totally ordinary? Malik sees bugs. Evil bugs. Alien bugs that seem to be seizing control of people, one after another. Malik can’t convince the world to sound the alarm, but he can at least protect his two young sons from global parasitic invasion — which might involve kidnapping them from the home of Malik’s estranged wife.
Produced by Dimitri Doganis, Piers Vellacott, and Derrin Schlesinger, the screenplay was written by Joe Barton, and Michael Pearce.
In playing Ruben Stone in Sound of Metal (2020), Ahmed received his first Academy Award nomination, making him the first Muslim to be nominated for Best Actor. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance in HBO’s The Night Of. He’s also an executive producer on the animated documentary Flee.
BlackFilmandTV.com’s Wilson Morales recently spoke with Ahmend and the two boys who play his sons in the film, Lucian-River Chauhan and Aditya Geddada.