Awesomely Thrilling Trailer For Netflix's HOLD THE DARK From The Director of GREEN ROOM and BLUE RUIN
Whoa! Netflix has just released the trailer for an incredible looking new film called Hold The Dark. It comes from director Jeremy Saulnier, who previously directed the fantastic films Green Room and Blue Ruin. This trailer gives us a glimpse at the Intense, unsettling and disturbing story that follows a man's journey into the wilderness of Alaska to track down a pack of wolves that took the life of a young boy from a small town. Here's the synopsis and impressive cast of the film:
Retired naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core (JEFFREY WRIGHT) journeys to the edge of civilization in northern Alaska at the pleading of Medora Slone (RILEY KEOUGH), a young mother whose son was killed by a pack of wolves. As Core attempts to help Medora track down the wolves who took her son, a strange and dangerous relationship develops between the two lonely souls.
But when Medora’s husband Vernon (ALEXANDER SKARSGARD) returns home from the Iraq War, the news of his child’s death ignites a violent chain of events. As local cop, Donald Marium (JAMES BADGE DALE), races to stop Vernon’s vengeful rampage, Core is forced on a perilous odyssey into the heart of darkness.
Hold The Dark is an adaptation of a novel written by William Giraldi, and the script for the film was adapted by Macon Blair, who was an actor in both Blue Ruin and Green Room. When talking about the project, he said:
"I read Hold the Dark in two sittings and just chewed through it. It really excited me. The book itself was so stunning and compelling—and then simultaneously I was thinking of it as something for Jeremy to direct. It seemed very much in his wheelhouse but at the same time felt like a progression, in terms of scope and themes and size and intensity."
Saulnier went on to say:
"I’d categorize my previous films as hyper terrestrial. They’ve been so grounded that this sort of forced me into a new realm. I definitely thought of the material as mystical more than supernatural, but there’s enough subjectivity with the characters that it could be interpreted one way or another."
Hold The Dark looks like an awesome and thrilling movie and it will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, before hitting Netflix on September 28, 2018.