Fans of SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948) may want to check out HBO Max this weekend, streaming a new movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. KIMI stars the talented Zoe Kravitz (who is also bound to make a splash as Catwoman in next month's THE BATMAN on the big screen) as a tech worker with agoraphobia who works remotely from her apartment and discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime. It is clear a murder was committed but when she attempts to inform her employer, she is met with resistance. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: she must leave her apartment.
Like the protagonist of the radio script and the 1948 motion-picture, she is disrespectful to everyone she knows and works with. In attempting to track down the source of the recording and the murder victim, she will ultimately be the next target of the murderer.
David Koepp, who is presently working on the screenplay for the new Green Hornet movie, wrote this screenplay as well as co-produced. He is a talented writer who was clearly inspired by such classics as Rear Window (1954), and it shows perfectly here.
If you ever wanted to know how the 1943 radio drama could possibly translate to a movie in today’s environment, this is that movie.
