Real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie aren't against rumors that Franco could portray accused CEO shooter Luigi Mangione in a potential film, the pair told TheWrap at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Sunday.

Audiences should have fun with "Together," a body-horror movie about a serious thing - love - that never takes itself too seriously.

Dave Franco and Alison Brie join the IndieWire Studio at Sundance to talk Michael Shanks' body horror relationship thriller, 'Together.'

Writer-director Michael Shanks' romantic nightmare, which also stars Damon Herriman, follows a dysfunctional couple whose union is put to the test when strange forces overcome them.

Dave Franco (Tim) Select key quotes: Says Brie, “Michael didn't approach us to do this as a couple.” “We bounded over horror movies, he had seen The Rental, (and said) I actually have something else you'd be good for.

A romantic relationship is a union, and Together takes that idea to its gonzo extreme. A playfully gory Cronenbergian comedy that picks up where The Substance left off, Michael Shanks’ directorial debut mines a couple’s stresses and strains for gruesome outrageousness that lets audiences in on the joke without resorting to wink-wink self-consciousness.

"Together" combines the awkward experience of being in the room as a couple fights in front of you with a bold body horror premise that teeters just on the edge of being too cute by half. It begins like it's riffing on the classic "The Thing" before settling into something closer to nightmarish slapstick comedy -- like the less creative though still plenty committed inverse of "The Substance,