Jessie T. Usher, Taye Diggs, & Torrey Lawrence Join Sci-Fi Thriller Feature ‘SYNDETIC'

Jesse T. Usher, Tay Diggs, and Brett Gelman among five join a sci-fi thriller feature Syndetic. >> [music] >> Deadline is seizing the day. Now, I'm pretty sure you you know you're you're a big shot about this, but we we all we'll see. Do you like science fiction thrillers? >> I do. >> Don't we all? >> I think so. I think that's safe to say. >> That's the dude from Stranger Things. >> Yes, that is Taye Diggs. It's also Jesse T. Usher from The Boys. Jesse T. Usher, Taye Diggs, and Brett Gelman among five join a sci-fi thriller feature Syndetic. Let's see what they are talking about. Jesse, excuse me, T. Usher and all those people right here I just named are set to star in Syndetic, a psychological science fiction thriller that recently wrapped production in LA and will mark the directorial debut of Blake Linder. Written by Jamie La- LaForest, Syndetic centers on Richard Thompson's Lawrence, a former marine marine and network administrator whose unemployment, addiction, and estrangement from his two sons leave him vulnerable to an unusual offer from Neurohive. This sounds like a billion-dollar company. There they they disarmingly genial Dr. Carnegie, this is sounds crazy epic just with the names, recruits Richard into an experimental program that uses human brains. Oh my gosh. As individual nodes within a distributed computing network designed to harness the mind's capacity for prediction and pattern recognition. This sounds like The Matrix part six. >> Yeah. >> As Richard begins experimenting experimenting violent images and unfamiliar memories that undermine his sense of identity and reality, he becomes increasingly consumed by Kylie O'Reilly Smith Smith from The Matrix, a ubiquitous motivational media personality whose relentless optimism takes on a more invasive and unsettling uh significance. Usher and Diggs play detectives Clearwater and Lane, respectively, investigators attempting to reconstruct the truth from Richard's fragmented account while determining whether his apparent delusions may point to something real. The Richard's unraveling perspective, the film explores the commodification of human experience, economic desperation, and the increasingly unstable boundary between consciousness and technology. This sounds amazing. "I've always been drawn to stories that leave audiences asking difficult questions, and Syndetic does exactly that," said Linda. "I wanted to blend grounded suspense with psychological horror to explore where our relationship with technology could lead if we stop questioning the systems we trust." Ryan Bloomberg serves as the cinematographer. Uh here's my reaction. >> [cheering] >> Larry? >> I I I I I am looking forward to this. I haven't I didn't even read this until we going live right now cuz I want to be surprised, but I'm here for it, my brother. I'm here for it. >> What say you, sir? What what say you? >> Yeah, it sounds good. It sounds like it could be really really good. I am I am curious to see how Taye Diggs does as a detective because I'll be honest with you, I have a hard I have a hard time seeing him outside of anything that's like unless it's like a rom-com or some sort of, you know, family drama film or something. I just I have a hard time seeing him as a detective, but I'll I'm you know, he's an actor, so hopefully he can he can act his way through it. So, we'll see. >> Yeah. Yeah. Um I don't know. On social media, I I like him. We go all the way back to '99 with The Best Man. Um I'm not I'm not sure I see him as like some hard-charging >> Yes, he is. I'm just not I'm just not sure I see him as like some hard-charging detective in like a gritty, you know, dark sci-fi movie, but maybe he can do it. >> I'm Was it I think he's he does also does a Broadway He He's always making jokes about being gay or or trans or something. I don't know why. >> Maybe he is. >> I mean if that's Is he gay for real? >> No, I said maybe he is. Maybe that's his way of sort of like, you know, dipping his toe in the water to see how people will react before he finally decides to come out. >> Now, if he's gay if he's gay, he's gay. That's who he is. But if he's not, I don't understand why And even if he wants to always play gay roles, hey, if it's a check. But if he's not gay, I don't understand why he's always pretending to be. Like, "Hey, girl." You know, I I just He's always doing that, you know. And the only reason I bring it up is because you said it's kind of hard to see him as a detective. Same here, even though he is talented because that's that's in my my mind right now. >> And this is the thing, you could be gay and still be like a badass dude and >> Yeah. >> And I mean, I'll tell you like as an example, the dude that played I forgot his name, but he the dude that played Doogie Howser. You know what I'm talking about? >> Uh I don't. >> He was in He was also I think he was in Harold and Kumar as well. I forgot the dude's name. Somebody in the comment thread put his name up there. He's gay. But that dude comes off as like this crazy wild dude that's a lot of fun and and I, you know, I don't see him as being soft. Taye Diggs comes off to me as soft. >> [laughter] >> Even if he's straight, he just comes off as soft. He seems like he's great in those, you know, in The Brothers or or some Tyler Perry movie or whatever, but I'm not sure I see him as like somebody detective. >> So, what you're saying is if you ran into him in the street, you could beat his ass. Is that what That's what you're saying? >> [laughter] >> I mean, >> I'm joking, man. >> I I think a lot of people probably could, but I you know, Neil Patrick Harris, that's the name, yeah. >> Thank you Jess Bot, thank you sir. >> I did meet him one day. He was at the He was at the the DC Zoo, the Smithsonian Zoo, and he was politely rude. >> Politely [laughter] rude. I I kind of know what you're saying. >> He was politely rude, but I gave him a pass because he was with his family, he had his kids and all that. When most people have their kids, I usually just ignore it. It just, you know, if I they catch my eye, if I catch their eye, I may just say hey, acknowledge like, yeah, saw you, but I'm not going to step up and say anything to your children, you know. >> Right, right, right, right. Well, um we didn't even comment on Jesse T. Usher, but that's okay. That's okay. I'm more of a fan of Taye Diggs. Taye Diggs is talented. I'm rooting for you, brother. And hopefully y'all can come through as some badass detectives, man, with this super futuristic technology, with consciousness and technology and all that. I'm here for it, man. I'm here for it. So yeah. >> idea, though, this whole thing of sort of connecting brains as, you know, to create sort of like a big supercomputer with brains as like a node, each person's brain is a is a different node in the computer. That sounds interesting. Very Matrix-like. >> Yes, it does. Yes, it does. Yes, it does.