A buoy and a satellite fall in love. It sounds like the beginning of a strange, obscure joke, but it is in fact the premise of Love Me, an experimental new sci-fi romance movie starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun. It’s a premise dreamed up by Sam and Andy Zuchero, the couple and filmmaking duo known collectively as the Zucheros, after they came up with a rather bleak thought experiment: What would happen if robots inherited the Earth? But despite the grim starting point of this hypothetical, the conclusion that they came to was actually, surprisingly, quite hopeful.
“We realized it wasn't about AI or robots, but it was about us and these two new beings trying to figure out what life is like and what love is like,” Andy Zuchero tells Inverse. “And then it became the movie that you see.”
