After world premiering to crucial acclaim at Sundance again in January, the darkly comedic courting thriller Cat Person has lastly unveiled a primary trailer and launch date, having been set to open in U.S. theaters by way of Rialto Pictures starting October sixth.
An adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s viral New Yorker quick story totally financed by Studiocanal, Cat Person appears to be like on the transient relationship between 20-year-old faculty sophomore Margot (CODA‘s Emilia Jones) and the somewhat-older Robert (Succession‘s Nicholas Braun) from the angle of each characters, as a method of commenting on the expertise of courting in the present day.
In an look alongside her leads at Deadline’s Sundance studio earlier this yr, pic’s DGA Award-winning director Susanna Fogel famous that the concept of toggling forwards and backwards between the POVs of her protagonists was compelling, in that it allowed her to discover “miscommunications and the cultural baggage that men and women bring into dating,” significantly in our post-#MeToo second.
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them,” reads the Margaret Atwood quote serving because the movie’s epigraph, which completely sums up the characters’ disparate views on their shared courting expertise.
Also starring Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Michael Gandolfini, Liza Koshy, Fred Melamed, Isaac Powell, Isabella Rossellini and Donald Elise Watkins, Cat Person was scripted by Michelle Ashford. Jeremy Steckler and Conde Nast Entertainment/The New Yorker Studios’ Helen Estabrook produced the movie, with Fogel, Ashford and Daniel Hank aboard as EPs.
Check out the Cat Person trailer above.
