Dedicated To Jackie Chan And Michelle Yeoh, ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Offers Scientific Comedy

Michelle Yeoh (Photo: REUTERS via ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The film Everything Everywhere All at Once directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert takes the audience on an adventure through multiuniverses. Related to cultural roots, the dialogue in this film mixes Mandarin, Cantonese, and English. The idea was originally written for Hong Kong stars Jackie Chan and Yeoh.

This film stars Michelle Yeoh who plays a laundry owner named Evelyn Wang who has difficulty interacting with her family and paying taxes.

After being visited by her aging father, Evelyn gets busier and busier when she meets with an IRS agent (Jamie Lee Curtis) when Evelyn's husband unexpectedly introduces her to multiuniverse. Evelyn and the version of herself that may come with different life choices are tasked with saving lives from impending doom.

"Multiuniversity is a wonderful thing in exploring narrative or in film because once you introduce the idea of limitless opportunity, what happens in the film no longer matters," Kwan told Reuters quoted Wednesday.

"This is an opportunity to explore scary thoughts and feelings that resonate philosophically, the more we talk about it, the more we feel that's what the 21st century feels like," Scheinert added, cited from ANTARA.

The duo, known as Daniels, directed the video clip and film Swiss Army Man (2016). "It takes a lot of work right now to surprise people because we've seen a lot of things," Kwan said.

"Everything is a sequel. Everything is part of a franchise or 'remake'. And because of that, we have to keep rewriting because we are constantly looking for things that really feel new," he continued.

"Once we realized Jackie Chan was very expensive and famous and busy, we decided to focus on the character Michelle because we loved her and her character. And to be honest, the screenplay came to life. So it was for the best," said Scheinert.