<i>After The Hunt</i>: What We Know So Far
Luca Guadagnino is so back. The Oscar-nominated director’s new film, After the Hunt, will officially be released this October. The film is written by first-time screenwriter Nora Garrett and stars Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, and Andrew Garfield. Here’s everything we know about the forthcoming psychological drama.
What is After the Hunt about?The film follows a college professor (Julia Roberts) who gets caught in the middle of a campus scandal after her student (Ayo Edebiri) accuses one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield) of “crossing the line.”
What has Luca Guadagnino said about the film?Per IndieWire, on an episode of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Guadagnino shared that After The Hunt is one of his “very rare” films that isn’t about “sexuality or love.”
“It’s a very timely movie for where we are now,” he said, “in terms of the society and the division in society and the extreme positions that we can have vis-a-vis an opinion in a way. It’s about what happens in the milieu of academia between younger and older people and the idea of consent. I can tell you that it’s very loaded. I can tell you that the movie is very provocative, but not in a stupid way, but I would say in a very articulate way.”
He also added that this is Roberts’s “best performance” of her career.
In another interview, Guadagnino also spoke about how much he enjoyed working with Edebiri. “Ayo is a movie star in the real sense of bigness, and cinema, and excitement,” he told W. “She has a commitment toward performance that you rarely find now. She absolutely commands your gaze. She’s funny and she’s extremely beautiful—and that is a very rare combination.”
Who is in the cast?In addition to Roberts, Edebiri, and Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny round out the cast.
In an interview with Deadline at this year’s CinemaCon, Garfield revealed what it was like to work with Guadagnino for the first time. “What was exciting and surprising about being with Luca on set was how loose he is, how relaxed he is, how spontaneous, in the moment, and totally focused [he is] when he needs to be,” he said. “He seems to be allowing the day, the scene, and the moment to be found. And he’s such a precise filmmaker, simultaneously.”
Edebiri echoed those sentiments. She said that filming with Guadagnino was a “mix of complete openness and specificity of vision.” She continued, “As an actor that fosters you to come up with so many things and understandings of your character.”
Yes! On July 16, Amazon MGM Studios released the official trailer.
The film will be released in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on October 10 and will open nationwide on October 17.
This story will be updated.
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