IN THE HAND OF DANTE Trailer Drops With Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, and Martin Scorsese in Julian Schnabel’s Wild Historical Epic
The first trailer for In The Hand Of Dante has arrived, and it looks like filmmaker Julian Schnabel is delivering something intense, strange, and visually hypnotic.
The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, and now audiences are finally getting a better look at this sprawling adaptation of Nick Tosches’ 2002 novel.
The cast alone is enough to get movie fans locked in. The film stars Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Sabrina Impacciatore, Louis Cancelmi, Franco Nero, Benjamin Clementine, Paolo Bonacelli, Martin Scorsese, and Al Pacino.
Schnabel’s latest project marks his first feature since At Eternity’s Gate, the Oscar-nominated Vincent Van Gogh drama released in 2018. This time, he’s diving into something much darker and far more surreal.
Isaac takes on dual roles in the film, playing both Tosches in present-day New York and legendary poet Dante Alighieri in the 14th century. The story jumps between timelines, connecting two men through obsession, violence, art, and spiritual longing.
The official synopsis reads: “In the Hand of Dante follows the parallel lives of a New York author (Nick Tosches) in the 21st century who embarks on a violent journey after he is recruited by a mafia don to steal Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy written in the poet’s own hand, and Dante in the 14th century seeking inspiration to write his most important work – each man unknowingly connected through time and their obsessive quest for love, beauty, and the divine.”
The trailer leans hard into that dreamlike energy. There’s crime, religion, poetry, bloodshed, and philosophical chaos all colliding together in a way that feels massive in scope but deeply personal at the same time.
Momoa especially looks completely locked into the gritty atmosphere of the story, while Isaac seems fully committed to carrying both timelines with very different energies.
Schnabel co-wrote the screenplay with Louise Kugelberg, adapting Tosches’ dense and challenging novel into what looks like an ambitious cinematic experience.
Netflix picked up the film earlier this year and plans to give it a theatrical release on June 12 before it hits streaming on June 24. Before that, the movie will also screen at the Tribeca Film Festival.
This definitely doesn’t look like a safe or conventional literary adaptation. It looks raw, chaotic, artistic, and completely consumed by its own strange energy. For movie fans who love historical epics that swing for something bigger and weirder, In The Hand Of Dante might end up being one of the most fascinating films of the year.