{"id":1519,"date":"2025-08-18T15:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/?p=509281"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"director-reveals-exactly-how-that-creepy-final-scene-in-together-was-filmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2025\/08\/18\/director-reveals-exactly-how-that-creepy-final-scene-in-together-was-filmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Director reveals exactly how *that* creepy final scene in Together was filmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right, so the movie Together just released last week. And it\u2019s already generating a lot of chatter, especially about the ending. The film follows Tim and Millie, played by the real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie. The couple face an unexplained force that threatens to merge their bodies in the most terrifying way imaginable. Basically, it\u2019s creepy, gross, and wildly inventive horror that sticks with you. But the final scene of the film is even more bizarre, and the director of Together has now explained how it was filmed.<\/p>\n

By the end of the film<\/a>, Tim and Millie realise the only way to deal with this mysterious force is to give in to it. And what we see next\u2026 well, it\u2019s unforgettable. The film presents a completely new person, a strange hybrid of both characters, opening the door to Millie\u2019s visiting parents. Audiences have been left both horrified and amazed, and many immediately assumed some sort of AI magic was involved.<\/p>\n

So, how was the final scene actually filmed?<\/h2>\n
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Speaking on Indiewire\u2019s Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast<\/a>, director Michael Shanks explained that the finale was achieved entirely with practical effects and compositing. There was no AI involved at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of screenings I\u2019ve gone to now, and people come up to me and say, \u2018Was that AI at the end?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve used absolutely none of it on this film. As a VFX guy, as somebody that\u2019s worked with all these teams that put in so much work, it\u2019s so frustrating now that people look at something that looks interesting or good and just assume a computer made it. It\u2019s like, \u2018No, no, no, no, no.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Basically, Genevieve Camilleri, the film\u2019s VFX supervisor, photographed both Brie and Franco before filming and created test composites in Nuke. They experimented with which features to combine to get the \u201cTillie\u201d character right. \u201cShe made a bunch of variations on which elements to take from which of their faces. It’s to figure out what is essential to seeing both of them in that final image,\u201d Shanks said.<\/p>\n

On set, Shanks filmed Alison first, then Dave with tracking dots on his face. Camilleri layered Dave\u2019s jaw and lips onto Alison\u2019s upper face, blending the makeup with compositing to create the seamless, horrifying hybrid.<\/p>\n

And, as Shanks put it, \u201cIt\u2019s really a combination of makeup. And you wouldn\u2019t call it CGI, because nothing\u2019s computer-generated, but it\u2019s compositing.\u201d<\/p>\n

That final scene will haunt you even longer now that you know it was all actually real. So wild!<\/p>\n

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