Official Trailer For Charlize Theron's DARK PLACES
We've been waiting on an official trailer to drop for Dark Places, Charlize Theron's new movie based on Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn's popular book, but A24 chose the wrong day to release it. We're still reeling from the aftermath of the horrible church shooting in Charleston last night, so these opening images take on a darker tone than they might have otherwise.
The film follows Theron's character as she encounters a group of conspiracy theorists who believe her convict brother is innocent of murdering her family, and tracks her as she goes on a quest to find the truth.
Libby Day (Charlize Theron) was only seven years old when her mother and two sisters were brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. In court, the traumatized child pointed the finger at her brother, Ben (Tye Sheridan), and her testimony put the troubled 16-year-old in prison for life. Twenty-five years later, a broke and desperate Libby has run through donations from a sympathetic public and royalties from her sensational autobiography, without ever moving past the events of that night.
When Libby accepts a fee to appear at a gathering of true-crime aficionados led by Lyle Wirth (Nicholas Hoult), she is shocked to learn most of them believe Ben is innocent and the real killer is still at large. In need of money, she reluctantly agrees to help them reexamine the crime by revisiting the worst moments of her life. But as Libby and Lyle dig deeper into the circumstances surrounding the murders, her recollections start to unravel and she is forced to question exactly what she saw – or didn’t see. As long-buried memories resurface, Libby begins to confront the wrenching truths that led up to that horrific night. Also starring Christina Hendricks, Corey Stoll and Chloë Grace Moretz, Dark Places is an ingeniously twisted thriller based on the best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl).
Dark Places is available right now on DirecTV, and arrives in theaters and On Demand on August 7th.