Miles Teller as Levi in The GorgeImage via Apple TV
2026 is lining up to be a big year for Anya Taylor-Joy, who can already be seen starring in the first $1 billion movie of 2026, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. While the film has yet to officially reach $1 billion at the box office, it’s well over the $900 million mark and expected to cross the milestone before the end of the month. Taylor-Joy will also be seen on Apple TV headlining one of the biggest shows of the summer, Lucky, which co-stars Timothy Olyphant. Collider debuted some exclusive images from the show as part of our Exclusive Preview Event just a few weeks ago. At the end of the year, Taylor-Joy will close out her 2026 by starring in Dune: Part Three opposite Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet. The sci-fi trilogy-capper is being directed by the legendary Denis Villeneuve, who is also working on the next James Bond movie.
However, Lucky won’t be the first time that Anya Taylor-Joy has worked with Apple TV for a hit project. Last year, Taylor-Joy teamed up with Miles Teller for the hit sci-fi thriller, The Gorge, which premiered on Valentine’s Day weekend — this is likely why the studio chose to forego a theatrical release, as it would have gone head-to-head with Captain America: Brave New World (starring Anthony Mackie). Still, The Gorge has excelled on streaming over the last year, so much so that it continues to plague the Apple TV global top 10, and it has long enough that it’s officially become one of the streamer’s most-watched movies of all-time. Despite newer arrivals featuring big stars, The Gorge refuses to exit the Apple TV top 10 as it enters streaming super-hit territory.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
04
How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
05
Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
07
Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
08
What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
Is Apple TV Making a Sequel to ‘The Gorge’?
Apple TV has not made any official announcements regarding a sequel to The Gorge, and the film’s ending lends itself to being more of a one-and-done story than the type awaiting a continuation. Still, it could be possible to make another Gorge movie simply set around another Gorge with new characters, but it begs a vital question: will a new Gorge movie without Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller have the same draw? The film was also directed by horror savant Scott Derrickson, who is famous for his work directing Doctor Strange and The Black Phone movies.
Check out The Gorge on Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates and coverage of Anya Taylor-Joy’s future projects.
