The primary trailer for A24’s upcoming darkish comedy, Dying of a Unicorn, has arrived.
Set for launch in spring 2025, Dying of a Unicorn stars Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega as a father and daughter who by accident kill a unicorn with their automotive en path to a weekend retreat with the daddy’s billionaire boss, Dell Leopold, and his household.
The trailer depicts Rudd and Ortega’s characters as they hesitatingly reveal the lifeless unicorn to the Leopolds, who start exploiting the invention, harvesting magical properties from the corpse to discover a treatment for most cancers and, as they see it, seize “a chance for greatness” and “immortality.” Finally, although, we come to search out that the unicorn isn’t fairly lifeless, as a horrific, blood-lusting model of it resurrects to hunt vengeance.
Watch the trailer beneath.
Dying of a Unicorn is produced by Ari Aster and marks the debut of director Alex Scharfman. The soundtrack was composed by the enduring John Carpenter, and rounding out the solid with Rudd and Ortega is Richard E. Grant, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, Anthony Carrigan, Sunita Mani, and extra.
The movie was first introduced in Might 2023, and filming started that July in Hungary, regardless of the then-ongoing actors strike. As a result of A24 wasn’t affiliated with the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers, it was certainly one of 39 impartial productions that got approval by SAG-AFTRA to proceed taking pictures.
In the meantime, 2024 was one other good yr for A24 — Consequence not too long ago named Jane Schoenbrun’s I Noticed the TV Glow one of the best film of the yr in our annual rundown, which additionally included A24 titles Love Lies Bleeding and Sing Sing.