AFTER THE HUNT Trailer Sees Julia Roberts Face a Shattering #MeToo Scandal with Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri
Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Challengers) is back, and this time he’s diving straight into the chaos of power, morality, and the #MeToo era with his upcoming psychological drama After the Hunt. The first trailer has been released, and it’s tense, layered, and brimming with the kind of unease Guadagnino thrives on.
Julia Roberts leads the film as a college professor who finds herself walking a razor’s edge between loyalty, integrity, and survival when a scandal threatens to unravel her life.
According to the official synopsis, After the Hunt follows a professor who “finds herself at a personal and professional crossroad when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield), threatening to expose a dark secret from her own past.”
The trailer wastes no time setting the tone. It opens with Garfield’s Hank delivering a barbed line aimed squarely at Gen Z: “All your generation, you’re scared of saying the wrong thing. When did offending someone become the preeminent cardinal sin?”
Edebiri’s Maggie isn’t having it: “Maybe it’s around the same time your generation started making sweeping generalizations about ours?”
The footage teases both Hank and Maggie’s complicated, and possibly dangerous, fixations on Roberts’ character. Everything detonates when Maggie arrives at the professor’s home, shaken and accusing Hank of sexual assault. Hank fires back, claiming Maggie has been cheating in class. What begins as a battle of perspectives quickly ignites into a storm of accusations, secrets, and racial and generational fault lines.
Guadagnino, known for exploring messy human desires and moral ambiguities, looks to be at his sharpest here, turning the academic world into a battlefield of identity politics, ethics, and raw ambition.
The R-rated drama features an impressive supporting cast, including Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny.
After The Hunt hits theaters in New York and L.A. on October 10, before expanding nationwide on October 17.