Riz Ahmed and Lily James Get Tangled in High-Stakes Corporate Deceit in Trailer for RELAY
If you're into slick paranoia and morally flexible characters, Relay might be your next cinematic fix. Bleecker Street released the trailer for the corporate thriller directed by David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water), and it’s serving up sharp tension with a side of moral rot.
Riz Ahmed plays Tom, a master “fixer” who orchestrates payouts between shady corporations and the people trying to blow the whistle on them. His anonymity is sacred. His rules are gospel. Then Lily James enters the picture as a desperate client running for her life, and suddenly all those carefully drawn lines start to blur.
The synopsis reads: “Riz Ahmed stars as a world class ‘fixer’ who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning & always follows an exacting set of rules. But when a message arrives one day from a potential client (Lily James) needing his protection just to stay alive, all his rules quickly start to change.”
The trailer gives off serious Michael Clayton meets Enemy of the State energy as it’s the kind of story that gives the sense that nobody’s in control. TIFF described the film as “riddled with ingenious feats of misdirection, novel set pieces, and jaw-dropping twists that would have made Hitchcock proud.”
The movie also stars Sam Worthington, Willa Fitzgerald, and Matthew Maher. It’s set to hit theaters on August 22, 2025.