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Yes, It’s Keanu
How the Severance team got the superstar to go full Rankin/Bass for Lumon’s spookiest propaganda push yet.
As Shadow the Hedgehog, malice; as Neo and John Wick, dread; as Johnny Utah, woe; as Ted Logan, frolic — and now, as an anthropomorphic representation of Lumon, Keanu Reeves veers into the buoyantly propagandistic. Mr. Milchick presents the video as Lumon’s official response to the macrodata refinement team’s enactment of the overtime contingency in the season-one finale; that cliffhanger saw Mark S., Helly R., and Irving B. transfer their Innie consciousnesses into their Outie bodies, with Dylan G. staying behind to handle the mechanics needed for their mental jailbreak. A new score from Severance composer Teddy Shapiro and a temporary scratch track of the voice-over helped guide the frame-by-frame filming process, which was overseen by director Michael Granberry at Starburns’s Los Angeles headquarters in September 2022.
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