Trailer For the Fascinating Jon Hamm Black Mirror-Esque Film MARJORIE PRIME
The first trailer has been released for Jon Hamm's new film Marjorie Prime, which is kind of a sci-fi film with a Black Mirror-esque vibe to it. The fascinating and eerie story is set in a future where technological advances have allowed humans to reconnect with computerized versions of their departed loved ones.
The film also stars Lois Smith, who plays "an ailing widow who, with the help of an artificially intelligent rendering of her late husband, played by Jon Hamm, ponders her own mortality as she revisits events from the past with her new companion." I'm sure you can see why I compared its story to the kinds of things we'd see on Black Mirror.
When talking about the film Smith tells EW:
"I’ve been acting for many decades now, I’ve had deeply interesting roles to play both on stage and screen, this one is particularly precious I suppose, because it’s complicated, it’s lively. The beauty of it, to me is its humanism and seeing how it connects how we live and explore connections with each other, our family, and memory.
“Marjorie and I are both getting older. Her forgetfulness is worse than mine. Her past is complex and far from simply happy, though there is happiness in it. One of the things I’ve always liked about her is she loves life, although the story has some end-of-life stories in it.
“I hope audiences take away something that touches them and stays with them. It’s a very different thing with different people. Each person brings their experience to it… it’s fascinating how differently people take this film. I wish for people to join it, enjoy it, and take it home with them, and I believe they will.”
The movie was directed by Michael Almereyda, and is an adaptation of Jordan Harrison’s 2014 Pulitzer Prize-nominated play. The movie also Geena Davis and Tim Robbins also star. Marjorie Prime is set to get a limited theatrical release on August 18th and then it will get a wider release.
It looks like a great movie worth checking out.