Everything Everywhere All at Once is a 2022 American written and directed by Daniels , who produced it with Russo brothers and Jonathan Wang the film incorporates elements from a number of genres and film mediums, including absurdist fiction, comedy drama, Surreal humour, science fiction, fantasy film, martial arts films, migrant literature, and animation. Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn Quan Wang, a Chinese Americans immigrant who, while Income tax audit, discovers that she must connect with Parallel universes in fiction versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse. The film also stars Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., and James Hong in supporting roles.
Kwan and Scheinert began work on the project in 2010. Production was announced in 2018, and principal photography ran from January to March 2020. The filmmakers initially sought Jackie Chan for the lead role before the script was revised to feature a female protagonist as part of a wife-husband duo. The works of Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-wai, as well as the children's book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and the video game Everything video game, served as inspiration for several scenes. Everything Everywhere All at Once features compositions by Son Lux, including collaborations with Mitski, David Byrne, André 3000, Nine Days, and Randy Newman. The film explores Philosophy themes such as existentialism, nihilism, surrealism, and absurdism, as well as themes such as Neurodiversity, Depression , Transgenerational trauma, and Asian Americans Ethnic identity development.