A nonetheless from ‘Leave the World Behind’
Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke play an American couple confronting a cataclysmic occasion in the cinematic adaptation of Leave the World Behind.
Directed by Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot) and based mostly on the best-selling 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind is ready to premiere on Netflix on December 8. The streamer not too long ago debuted a teaser for the psychological thriller movie.
Amanda (Roberts) and Clay (Hawke) are vacationing with their teenaged children in an opulent vacation residence in Long Island. A black couple, performed by Mahershala Ali and Myha’la Herrold, arrives at their door one night time. The precise homeowners of the home, they inform of an prolonged blackout and search refuge for the night time. The blackouts seem introduced on by a cross-country cyberattack. “The truth is much scarier,” G. H. (Ali) says. “What is the truth?” Amanda asks.
Her question is adopted by a sequence of unusual and terrifying photographs: floods, aircraft wrecks, Clay dashing off underneath swirls of blood-coloured rain. We additionally meet Kevin Bacon as a nutty building employee spewing the gospel of doom.
“A family vacation on Long Island is interrupted by two strangers bearing news of a mysterious blackout. As the threat grows more imminent, both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis, all while grappling with their own place in this collapsing world,” reads a synopsis of Leave the World Behind. The movie is backed by Barack and Michelle Obama’s manufacturing firm, Higher Ground.
Julia Roberts final appeared in the romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise alongside George Clooney. She additionally starred in the political thriller sequence Gaslit.