NERVE Trailer: Emma Roberts and Dave Franco Dare or Die as The World Watches
"The only way out is to win."
Here's the first trailer for Nerve, a new young adult thriller from the directors of Catfish (Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost) that stars two younger relatives of more famous actors, Emma Roberts and Dave Franco.
Based on a book by Jeanne Ryan, the film follows an uptight high school student (Roberts) who is pressured into joining a mega-popular online game called Nerve, in which there are "players" who accept dares from "watchers" for cash rewards. As the game goes on, she meets a mysterious guy (Franco) and has to team up with him as the stakes get higher and higher. I'm not surprised that the Catfish guys are the ones behind this, because in that movie they showed a knack for pacing and using graphics and computer screens to enhance their story, and this looks like a major escalation of those techniques. I'm not sure if Nerve is going to be any good, but at least it should be visually interesting.
Nerve hits theaters on July 27th.
Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico [Emma Roberts], has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger [Dave Franco], the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.