On Thursday, Aviron Pictures dropped the first trailer for the steamy, sea-bound film noir starring Oscar-winning duo Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway as a divorced couple reconnecting.
As the glamorous Karen, 35-year-old Anne enlists her ex-husband John (48-year-old Matthew) – now known as Baker Dill – to murder her abusive second husband (Jason Clarke) aboard his fishing boat.
‘My husband has never seen your face,’ Karen explains. ‘I want you to take him out on your boat and drop him in the ocean for the sharks.’
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‘Sometimes we do bad things for good reasons’: On Thursday, Aviron Pictures dropped the first trailer for the steamy, sea-bound film noir starring Oscar-winning duo Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway as a divorced couple reconnecting
There’s then a creepy Sleeping With the Enemy-style flashback of 48-year-old Jason studying his wife’s body for visible marks.
Like most film noirs, Karen is equal parts seductive, plotting femme fatale and sympathetic victim of domestic abuse to keep audiences guessing through the thriller’s twists and turns.
Making things more menacing is a mysterious man in a business suit called Reid Miller (Jeremy Strong), who seems to know exactly what Dill is up to with Karen.
Matthew’s former Amistad castmate Djimon Hounsou plays Dill’s voice of reason, who ominously warns him: ‘It’s about temptation. There’s right and wrong.’
Plotting: As the glamorous Karen, Anne enlists her ex-husband John (Matthew) – now known as Baker Dill – to murder her abusive second husband aboard his fishing boat
Karen explains: ‘My husband (Jason Clarke) has never seen your face. I want you to take him out on your boat and drop him in the ocean for the sharks’
‘What’s this? A little scratch, huh?’ There’s then a creepy Sleeping With the Enemy-style flashback of 48-year-old Jason studying his wife’s body for visible marks
Similarly, McConaughey and Hathaway previously co-starred as astronauts in Christopher Nolan’s critically-acclaimed 2014 sci-fi flick Interstellar, which amassed $677.5M at the global box office.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Steven Knight (Locke, Redemption, Peaky Blinders) directed Serenity, which hits US theaters on October 19.
‘Some of the scenes between them are the most electric I have ever been involved in,’ the British 59-year-old said in this week’s People.
‘Matthew and Anne are two of the best actors working anywhere in the world.’
Film noir genre: Karen is equal parts seductive, plotting femme fatale and sympathetic victim of domestic abuse to keep audiences guessing through the thriller’s twists and turns
‘I know all about your big day’: Making things more menacing is a mysterious man in a business suit called Reid Miller (Jeremy Strong), who seems to know exactly what Dill is up to with Karen
Matthew’s former Amistad castmate Djimon Hounsou plays Dill’s voice of reason, who ominously warns him: ‘It’s about temptation. There’s right and wrong’
Serenity was shot on a real boat off the coast of East African isle of Mauritius, which doubled as fictional Caribbean isle Plymouth Island.
‘We found a local Zydeco band who usually play weddings and they came along to the set a few times and played for us while some of us danced,’ Knight recalled.
‘Also instead of trailers, we had beachfront apartments for costume and make-up. Mauritius is kind of like paradise.’
Amassed $677.5M: Similarly, McConaughey and Hathaway previously co-starred as astronauts in Christopher Nolan’s critically-acclaimed 2014 sci-fi flick Interstellar
At the helm: Oscar-nominated screenwriter Steven Knight (Locke, Redemption, Peaky Blinders) directed Serenity, which hits US theaters on October 19 (pictured R in 2013)
The British 59-year-old told People: ‘Some of the scenes between them are the most electric I have ever been involved in. Matthew and Anne are two of the best actors working anywhere in the world’
‘Mauritius is kind of like paradise’: Serenity was shot on a real boat off the coast of East African isle of Mauritius, which doubled as fictional Caribbean isle Plymouth Island
source: dailymail.co.uk
