David Koepp’s Eerie Experience Shapes ‘Presence’ – “Surely, I Saw a Figure Cross the End of the Hall”

Renowned filmmaker Steven Soderbergh joins forces with acclaimed screenwriter David Koepp to deliver 'Presence', a gripping supernatural thriller set to captivate Indian audiences, releasing exclusively through PVR INOX Pictures on April 4th. Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, West Mulholland, Callina Liang, Eddy Maday, and Julia Fox headline this eerie, unconventional journey - told entirely from the unsettling vantage point of an invisible, watching entity.

The official synopsis teases: It was there before they moved in. Watching. Waiting. Drawn to Chloe, the overlooked teenage daughter, it begins to unravel the family from within. It doesn't just want something - it needs it. A chilling, emotional thriller from writer David Koepp and director Steven Soderbergh.

Adding to Soderbergh's description on the origins of the film, David Koeep mentioned : "For a time I lived in Langham in New York. A big creepy old building on 74th and Central Park West. I was watching TV one night and looked down a hall and saw a figure move past when no one should have been there. And I never had an experience like that. I found it really weird and striking because no one was down there and surely I saw a figure cross the end of the hall. Several months later I mentioned to my then 17-year-old son, Nick. "Oh yeah, I had this thing when I saw," and before I finished he says, "At the end of the hall, down from the living room." And I was like, no way."

Koepp was immediately intrigued when Soderbergh approached him with the concept, adding: "Steven sent those ideas and asked if I was interested and I think I wrote back, "Are you kidding?" It all takes place in one location. Weird stuff happens. A family starts to fall apart. I think you've hit all my personal obsessions."

With Soderbergh's visionary direction, Koepp's razor-sharp writing, and a hauntingly original point-of-view, Presence promises to deliver a supernatural thriller unlike anything Indian audiences have seen before. Presence releases exclusively in theaters across India on April 4.