Trailer Mania: ‘Cat Person’ Reveals First Look and October Release Date, Garth Davis’ ‘Foe’ Starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal, and More
Despite Warner Bros. and Legendary pushing the release date of Dune: Part Two on Thursday night, this week has been particularly intense for movie trailers. Besides revealing first looks at Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon (Netflix) and John Carney’s Flora and Son (Apple TV Plus), MGM revealed the first trailer for Lion director Garth Davis’ next film Foe, Rialto Pictures announced an October 6 date for the Sundance darling Cat Person with a new trailer, and Netflix has revealed the first look at J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow.
Cat Person
First, we have Susanna Fogel’s Cat Person, an adaptation of the viral New Yorker story by Kristen Roupenian, scripted by Michelle Ashford and financed by Studiocanal. The pic stars Emilia Jones (CODA) and Nicholas Braun (Succession) and, unlike the story it’s based on, it will show the story from the perspective of both characters. In Cat Person, 20-year-old college student Margot (Jones) starts dating the slightly older movie theater attendee Robert, before things take a turn — in the story, this is depicted as Robert turning out to be a bit of a creep, but with the film exploring the dual perspective it’s expected to show more compassion towards him.
Per Deadline, Fogel’s approach is summarized by the following Margaret Atwood quote that serves as a prelude to the film: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Fogel told Deadline that the approach allowed her to explore “miscommunications and the cultural baggage that men and women bring into dating,” particularly in our post-#MeToo moment. The Cat Person cast also includes Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Michael Gandolfini, Liza Koshy, Fred Melamed, Isaac Powell, Isabella Rossellini, and Donald Elise Watkins. Check out the trailer below:
The poster for the film has also been revealed:
Foe
Also revealed this week, Lion director is back with a new film starring Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird), and Aaron Pierre (The Underground Railroad). The sci-fi thriller promises to explore questions about the nature of humanity, love, and marriage; the plot synopsis reads:
“Hen and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior’s family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger (Aaron Pierre) shows up at their door with a startling proposal.”
The film will make its debut at the New York Film Festival in late September before opening in theaters in the US, also on October 6. Check out the trailer here:
Check out the poster here as well:
The Marsh King’s Daughter
Also coming out on October 6 (besides Killers of the Flower Moon and Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money) is the Daisy Ridley-led The Marsh King’s Daughter, which will be the first film to be distributed by Lionsgate under their new deal with STXfilms, as we included in our story covering that agreement.
The film was directed by Neil Burger (Limitless) and is an adaptation of Karen Dionne’s novel. In it, Daisy Ridley is forced to confront her past when her own father (Ben Mendelsohn) escapes from prison, and protect her new family from a killer on the loose. Check out the trailer below:
Society in the Snow
Later in the fall, J. A. Bayona is coming back from Middle-earth to direct his first Spanish-language film since The Orphanage, and his first feature film since Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in 2018. The film will close the Venice Film Festival this September, where it will play out of competition, and will also play at the San Sebastián Film Festival during that month. No release date has been announced yet.
The cast includes Enzo Vogrincic, Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Esteban Kukuriczka, and Tomas Wolf, and depicts the real-life tragedy of Air Force Flight 571, which in October 1972 crashed into the Andes when it was carrying a rugby team to Chile. 29 of 45 passengers survived, and the film is focused on the life-threatening conditions they had to endure before they were rescued. Check out the trailer below:
Additional Trailers
To wrap things up, if you are interested in checking out more trailers, here are other sneak peeks at upcoming films and TV series that were revealed this week. They include Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, a two-part film that will air on Netflix on December 22, 2023, and April 19, 2024; the third season of The Morning Show, which starts streaming on Apple TV Plus on September 19, and Flora and Son, coming to Apple on September 29. Enjoy!
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
