Driving excessive off “Challengers,” Luca Guadagnino is teaming up once more with Amazon MGM Studios for “After the Hunt,” a tense drama and thriller starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, and Andrew Garfield.
In what was Amazon MGM’s first presentation at CinemaCon, Guadagnino, Edebiri, and Garfield took the stage on the Colosseum to current the trailer for the movie forward of the film’s launch on October 17, 2025.
The movie follows Roberts as a university professor who’s caught up in a political and private disaster when considered one of her star pupils (Edebiri) accuses considered one of her fellow professors of an act of abuse. Let’s simply say it was a fairly tense expertise, one which grapples with the tradition wars and generational divide within the post-#MeToo period in fascinating methods.
Garfield referred to Guadagino as “a radical artist” and that it was a “dream come true to be directed by a residing grasp,” somebody who had a “reward for exploring the complexity of what it’s to be human.”
Nora Garrett wrote the screenplay for “After the Hunt,” which additionally stars Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny.
“Challengers,” the horny and tantalizing tennis movie starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist, grossed $96 million on the worldwide field workplace. Like that movie, “After the Hunt” reunites Guadagnino with composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on the rating.
Amazon MGM in its presentation trotted out a large number of stars and touted movies together with “Challenge Hail Mary” with Ryan Gosling, “Mercy” starring Chris Pratt,” “Crime 101” with Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry, and lots of extra movies. Prime Video chief Mike Hopkins instructed the group of exhibitors that it intends to succeed in 15 movies a yr by 2027 and already has a slate of 14 arrange for 2026. “After the Hunt” is considered one of its largest titles to come back in 2025.
“After the Hunt” is considered one of many upcoming initiatives that Guadagnino followers can stay up for. The Italian auteur can be connected to direct an “American Psycho” remake for Lionsgate and a “Sgt. Rock” film for James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios at Warner Bros.