I’ve always liked relationship pieces,” says Adrian Lyne. “That’s what I’ve been attracted to – the small story, rather than the large. A movie about you and me, rather than The Matrix, for example.” Lyne is chatting to Teasers ahead of the debut of Deep Water, his first movie in 20 years. The British director found fame in the ’80s and ’90s with iconic films like Flashdance and Jacob’s Ladder, and he became synonymous with erotic thrillers and dramas like Fatal Attraction, 9½ Weeks, Indecent Proposal and 2002’s Unfaithful.
He’s returning to that world with Deep Water, which stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas as Vic and Melinda, an unhappily married couple. Infidelity leads to murder, in a loose adaptation of a novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr.…