Shaun White and Warren Miller film at Park City Mountain. It didn’t go to plan.

As it hits 75 years, Warren Miller Entertainment isn’t looking back (that’s so 2023). It’s looking forward, maybe even eerily into the future.

Last year’s offering from the ski and snowboard film dynasty prepped viewers for the upcoming milestone with a dive into the vault. It plucked out some of the greatest stars and moments from the action and lifestyle clips that have stoked people’s enthusiasm for the upcoming winter season for the last three-quarters of a century.

Aptly titled “75,” this year’s film takes the opposite approach.

“‘Warren Miller 75′ is not necessarily taking a look back through the decades,” said Josh Haskins, the film’s producer and director, “but taking a look forward and seeing what the future of the sport looks like.”

The film’s lone Utah segment, set at Park City Mountain, illustrates that in ways even Haskins couldn’t foresee.

The segment stars veteran Olympic snowboarders Shaun White and J.J. Thomas, as well as up-and-comer Toby Miller. The symbolic handoff of snowboarding ascendancy from White, 38, and Thomas, 43, to the 24-year-old Miller is one of the obvious and intentional forward-looking elements. Another is the focus on Park City Mountain’s terrain park, which is pegged to host men’s and women’s snowboarding halfpipe and slopestyle events at the 2034 Olympics.

The aspect producers likely didn’t know they would nail is that Miller, formerly based in California, would move to Utah. He made the decision this summer, months after the segment was shot, and now calls Logan home.

“We just kept finding ourselves back here again and again,” Miller said, “But I really fell in love with it last season, and it’s definitely where I want to be for the future.”

An unexpected March blizzard on the day of the shoot also led to some element of presage.

Haskins said the original plan was to spotlight the elite park skills of the three riders. White has been training in Park City since the early 2000s and has a second home there. Thomas, White’s longtime coach, won a bronze medal in halfpipe at the 2002 Olympics at Park City Mountain. And Miller is presumably knocking at the door of his first Olympic appearance in Italy in 2026.

Yet when it started dumping — so much so that Miller said a power line fell causing the resort to close part of the mountain — and the park features became too sticky to highlight, producers had to pivot. Instead of just lapping the park, they headed to the top of the McConkey’s lift.

“When you get 12 inches of snow overnight, you really want to go ride powder,” Haskins said. “You want to go to the top of the mountain and ride the trees and get lots of powder. And that’s exactly what we did, and everyone had a blast.”

Miller’s family visited Park City Mountain often when he was a kid, but he spent all his time at the park or over at Canyons Village. He said he had never explored the double-black-diamond terrain below McConkey’s (named for Jim McConkey, father of U.S. Ski and Snowboard hall-of-famer Shane McConkey and an early pioneer of extreme skiing). Still, he was fully on board for a change of plans.

In addition to eyeing an Olympic experience, Miller said he has been working on rounding out his snowboarding skills, including incorporating more backcountry riding. That, he said, has changed the way he approaches a feature in the terrain park or a jump in the halfpipe and has begun shaping him as a rider.

“It’s dropping back into a halfpipe and seeing if I can approach a trick different,” he said, “or if I want to do my run a little different.”

According to the script, the snowboarders were supposedly taking their final lap. They planned to ride all the way to downtown Park City, where they would meet for a drink at the High West Saloon (High West sponsored the segment). Those who know the mountain, however, will notice that the last run was not a straight shot. It included a detour into the terrain park.

“We had to, you know, make our own path,” Miller said, noting he also noticed the creative editing at the premiere of “75″ on Oct. 15 in Boulder, Colo. “We didn’t take the direct route. We took the fun way.”

Or maybe they just foresee another terrain park in the resort’s future.

Warren Miller’s “75″ made its debut Monday at Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden. It showed at the Grand Theatre in Orem on Tuesday. The film will show at the Ellen Eccles Theatre in Logan on Wednesday, at The Depot in Salt Lake City on Friday and at The Ray Theatre in Park City on Saturday. For times and tickets, visit warrenmiller.com