Brit Marling has produced an action film called “Killing at the Edge of the World” that questions the status quo.
Brit Marling was partly inspired by Rihanna as she was developing the new television series A Murder at the End of the World as a producer, writer, and performer. Who isn’t, after all? But while writing this complex murder mystery that combines aspects of sci-fi, big tech, hacking, extreme wealth, and a coming-of-age love tale, the former star and co-creator of The OA was particularly impacted.
Marling tells ELLE.com, “I think a lot of that Rihanna song, ‘We fell in love in a hopeless place.'” “I remember playing that song a lot when I was just drawing storyboards or writing, but we never played it in the show.”
She’s talking about the two amateur detectives who are the main characters, Darby Hart (Emma Corrin) and Bill Farrah (Harris Dickinson), who meet in the shadowy corners of the internet and fall in love while investigating a cold case of serial killer. These are gritty Gen Z punks who travel the American West on foot and break into houses in search of the bodies of victims—usually women—after the police gave up looking for them.
They have tattoos and wolf cuts. Over the years, Darby and Bill lose contact with one other. However, they unexpectedly cross paths again as prosperous young adults—she is an artist and hacker, and he is an author—at a billionaire’s retreat in Iceland. Unfortunately, one of the visitors ends up dead, and Darby has to utilize her sleuthing abilities to establish that it was a murder before another person perishes.
