The Apocalypse Comes for the World’s Politicians in Rumours‘ Wild New Trailer

The G7 acme has ne'er looked similar this before—but possibly it should. In Rumours, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the U.S. stitchery for different 1 of their large meetings, but alternatively of your emblematic luxury edifice hotel, they find their wine-sipping chit-chat spirals into a nighttime that sees them stranded heavy successful a forest… a wood populated by “bog bodies” scarier than immoderate violent or governmental protestor. Also, the satellite mightiness beryllium ending. Also, there’s a giant brain?

Check retired the caller trailer for pitch-black drama Rumours, which stars Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and the precise British Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) as—just 1 mode you tin archer this movie is aiming to propulsion your leg—the precise British President of the United States.

Here’s the authoritative synopsis: “Ricocheting betwixt comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the 7 leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies astatine the yearly G7 summit, wherever they effort to draught a provisional connection regarding a planetary crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a superb ensemble formed that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these alleged leaders go spectacles of incompetence, contending with progressively surreal obstacles successful the misty woods arsenic nighttime falls and they recognize they are abruptly alone. A genre-hopping satire of governmental ineptitude, the latest movie from incomparable directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson is simply a travel into the absurd bosom of powerfulness and organization nonaccomplishment successful a dilatory burning world.”

In summation to Blanchett (playing the person of Germany), Dance (the POTUS), and Vikander (the Swedish secretary-general of the European Commission), Rumours‘ formed includes Roy Dupuis (Canada), Denis Ménochet (France), Nikka Amuka-Bird (UK), Rolando Ravello (Italy), and Takehiro Hira (Japan).

Rumours is successful theaters October 18.

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