Overview
- World premiered at the Sundance Film Festival as Stanton’s live-action return, adapted from Colby Day’s 2016 Black List script.
- Searchlight will release the film to stream on Hulu on February 27, 2026, following a festival debut without a theatrical rollout.
- The triptych connects a Neanderthal family, a present-day anthropology thread with Rashida Jones and Daveed Diggs, and a future starship story led by Kate McKinnon.
- The film received the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize for its science-centered storytelling, awarded by a jury of filmmakers and scientists.
- Critics highlight Thomas Newman’s score, production design, and the prehistoric segment, while faulting the compressed structure and a rushed final act.