Channing Tatum Is A Billionaire With A Darkish Secret In Zoë Kravitz Thriller

Do not you simply hate it once you get invited to the non-public island resort of an eccentric tech billionaire solely to seek out out it is a ruse for some severely darkish shenanigans? Now, technically that is by no means occurred to us (we simply discovered Glass Onion actually immersive actually). It’s nonetheless the destiny that Zoë Kravitz’s upcoming directorial debut Blink Twice has in retailer for Naomi Ackie, whose cocktail waitress Frida finds herself being whisked away for solar, sea, sand, and a facet order of severely sketch behaviour by Channing Tatum’s megarich Slater King within the sinister new trailer for the buzzy psychological thriller. Test it out:

Bougie secluded getaway? Verify. Confiscated telephones? Verify. Everyone sporting the identical garments each day? Verify. A secret field of polaroids, stashed in a closely locked cabinet, found by our more and more fraught protagonist? Verify, verify, and treble verify! The decision’s in people — it appears to be like like we have a banger on our arms. This can be Kravitz’s directorial debut (and OG title Pussy Island is clearly approach higher than the extra by-product Blink Twice), however all the pieces about this new trailer feels just like the product of a transparent imaginative and prescient and actual conviction. From the subversive Tatum flip as Slater, to the precision-tooled escalation of correct horror imagery (King’s harem all in white framed in opposition to the dead-of-night forest is really haunting) and Kravitz’s knife-sharp skewering of bourgeois ritualism, there’s greater than a touch of the social horror of Jordan Peele’s _Get Out_to proceedings right here.

This is the official synopsis: “When tech billionaire Slater King (Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Ackie) at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invitations her to affix him and his mates on a dream trip on his non-public island. It’s paradise. Wild nights mix into solar soaked days and everybody’s having a good time. Nobody desires this journey to finish, however as unusual issues begin to occur, Frida begins to query her actuality. There’s something fallacious with this place. She’ll must uncover the reality if she desires to make it out of this celebration alive.”

Among the many starry ensemble who even have a ticket to Slater King’s, er, feline resort are Alia Shawkat, Christian Slater, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Kyle MacLachlan, Haley Joel Osment and Geena Davis. Will Ackie discover a approach off King’s island? Are the tech billionaire’s secret polaroids simply cute cat pics in spite of everything? (Uncertain.) And can film characters ever discover ways to spot a crimson flag when it is being waved of their faces? Solely time will inform. One factor we do know although: you will not catch us blinking even as soon as when Blink Twice lands in cinemas on 23 August.