M. Night Shyamalan's New Concert Thriller Trap Looks Like a Night to Remember

Warner Bros. has released a caller trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap, successful which a serial slayer colorfully dubbed “the Butcher” (Josh Hartnett) learns the cops plan to ambush him astatine the performance he’s conscionable taken his girl to. Feast your eyes below:

Though Shyamalan has utilized villain protagonists before, Trap volition beryllium his archetypal placing a wanted serial slayer successful a relation traditionally reserved for everyman enactment heroes successful films similar Die Hard oregon Sudden Death. It’s an intriguing inversion of a familiar trope, and 1 which begs the question: is Josh Hartnett the close histrion for this? The teen idol-turned-television star—who, according to a 2020 interrogation with the Guardian, credits a 2001 Vanity Fair nonfiction with derailing his career—has been inching toward a comeback successful the past year, playing some physicist Ernest Lawrence successful Oppenheimer and a memorable astronaut successful Black Mirror.

Trap co-stars Ariel Donoghue, Hayley Mills, Alison Pill, Marnie McPhail, and Vanessa Smythe, positive Saleka Shyamalan arsenic “Lady Raven,” the popular prima turned snare. It opens August 2.

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