Today, Lisa Joy is known as one of the co-creators of HBO, sometimes very good and sometimes frustrating Westworld, and as of this weekend she is known as a writer and director or Reminiscent—Now available on HBO Max and theaters. Almost ten years ago, however, when she first presented her black science fiction adventure in Hollywood, she considered trying to sell it to studios under the male pseudonym.
Joy, for whom he had written Undertaking Daisies i Recording notice at the time, he said The Independent who thought people might have taken the script “more seriously” if they thought it had been written by a man, since it’s a sci-fi action movie, and he worried that people might behave an “implicit bias” about it, not being “so full of action or whatever” if they knew it had been written by a woman. In the end, he decided to use his real name, explaining that it was “irresponsible” to pretend to be someone else. “I’m a woman and I wrote it,” she noted, and it’s about “defending our claim to the world to have the same opportunities and get the same compensation.” He also chose to sell the script on the open market and was able to start a bidding war, and that worked best for him anyway. “I recommend this strategy,” he said.
Reminiscent it’s about a tough detective (Hugh Jackman) who investigates lost memories in a flooded city. The film also stars Rebecca Ferguson, Thandiwe Newton (of Joy’s Westworld), Cliff Curtis and Marina de Tavira. In its review, Club AV Film editor AA Dowd said that in its heyday, the film “comes to its own memories of the detective stories of yesteryear, to something sadder, truer and more distinctive.”