Channing Tatum takes on the position of a tech billionaire who lures individuals to his personal island within the trailer for Blink Twice, Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut.
The prolonged take a look at the movie begins with Tatum’s Slater King saying amusingly that everybody’s lifeless after which backtracking to begin firstly. Within the flashback, he introduces his posse of mates to Naomi Ackie’s Frida earlier than inviting her and her buddy, Jess, portrayed by Alia Shawkat, to his personal island.
“Did we simply jet off to a billionaire’s island with a bunch of strangers?” Jess asks Frida, who replies, “No, he’s not a stranger. He’s Slater King.”
Over the course of the trailer, the women relish within the luxuries of Slater King’s life, like champagne and superb meals, whereas Jess jokes that there will probably be human sacrifice. As extra time goes by, the visitors start to slowly lose their reminiscences and get the vibe that one thing’s off.
“I’m having a good time right here, however I even have this sense that I’m like not,” Adria Arjona’s Sarah says, with Simon Rex’s Cody echoing that sentiment. “There’s one thing bizarre happening right here.”
Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis spherical out the solid of Blink Twice, which was beforehand titled Pussy Island. Kravitz and Tatum produced the movie, alongside Bruce Cohen, Tiffany Individuals and Garret Levitz.
Kravitz beforehand opened up about casting Tatum within the sinister lead position, noting she appreciated that he hadn’t actually carried out darkish roles earlier than.
“Taking a look at his work and listening to him talk about Magic Mike and the dwell present, I’m like, ‘I feel he’s a feminist,’” she stated. “You might want to be so removed from who that is, the place it’s not scary. And I don’t suppose we’ve ever seen him play somebody darkish. I’m excited to see him do this.”
Following their work on the movie collectively, Kravitz and Tatum had been rumored to be romantically linked and have since made their relationship public and gotten engaged.
Blink Twice hits theaters on Aug. 23.