| Director: | Stefon Bristol |
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| Cinematography: | Felipe Vara de Rey |
| Editing: | Oriana Soddu |
| Music: | Isabella Summers |
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| Distributor: | Variance Films |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Runtime: | 93 minutes[1] |
Breathe is a 2024 American science fiction thriller film directed by Stefon Bristol, written by Doug Simon, and starring Jennifer Hudson, Milla Jovovich, Quvenzhané Wallis, Common, and Sam Worthington. The film is set in a world where oxygen levels on Earth have dropped making it impossible to live on the planet's surface without specialised equipment.
After a tipping point catastrophe, Earth is void of plants and global oxygen levels have dropped to 5%. Instead of communicating properly and working together, the survivors create artificial conflict and fight for an "oxygen generator", killing each other and destroying the machine. The survivors move on to the next place with an oxygen generator.
In December 2019, Doug Simon's screenplay Breathe was revealed to be on that year's "Black List" of the most-liked unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.[2] In May 2022, it was announced that Sam Worthington, Jennifer Hudson, Milla Jovovich, Quvenzhané Wallis and Common were set to star in the film, to be directed by Stefon Bristol.[3]
Filming took place on location in Pennsylvania during late 2022.[4]
Breathe was released in limited theaters, VOD and digital formats on April 26, 2024.[5]