Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor have a troublesome time navigating a clandestine romance whereas competing for a coveted job promotion within the first trailer for the Netflix thriller Truthful Play.
From author and director Chloe Domont, the film was a success at this 12 months’s Sundance Movie Competition and focuses on Luke (Ehrenreich) and Emily (Dynevor), co-workers at a high-powered hedge fund agency who’ve lately gotten engaged. Whereas they proceed to maintain the connection a secret, dynamics between the pair get tense as each goal to realize skilled positive aspects regardless of the prices.
Within the trailer that was launched Tuesday forward of the movie’s Oct. 13 streaming launch, Dyvenor’s Emily says, “We each can’t maintain working right here.” This leads Ehrenreich’s Luke to answer, “I’m not quitting.”
Later, Emily asks, “Why is it so onerous to just accept that I deserve that job?”
Eddie Marsan, Wealthy Sommer and Sebastian De Souza additionally star. Domont marks her characteristic directorial debut after helming episodes of Billions and Ballers.
Truthful Play hails from MRC and Rian Johnson’s T-Avenue. Producers are Leopold Hughes, Ben LeClair, Tim White, Trevor White and Allan Mandelbaum. The movie counts Domont, Johnson, Ram Bergman and Anđelka Vlaisavljević as govt producers.
The Hollywood Reporter beforehand reported that Truthful Play’s Sundance unveiling kicked off a bidding warfare, with Netflix touchdown the title for a sum within the $20 million vary.
In his evaluate for THR, chief movie critic David Rooney praised the movie for “tackling gender battle in rigorously nondidactic methods, making this an auspicious debut for Domont.”
Truthful Play will hit choose theaters Sept. 29 earlier than its Oct. 13 launch on Netflix.
