Wonderful New Trailer For Matt Damon's DOWNSIZING Takes us on an Unexpected Adventure
"Something very big is happening. Something top secret."
A new trailer has been released for director Alexander Payne's new film Downsizing. This latest trailer offers us a lot more insight into the story that the film will tell and it ends up going in a completely different direction than I thought it was going to go! This film is quite the unexpected director and it's a pleasant surprise. When you watch the trailer, you'll see what I mean. There's so much more to this story than the first trailer led us to believe.
The movie stars Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig as a couple who decide to undergo the shrinking process, but things don't really go as planned. Here's the synopsis with some additional details:
Downsizing imagines what might happen if, as a solution to over-population, Norwegian scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall and propose a 200-year global transition from big to small. People soon realize how much further money goes in a miniaturized world, and with the promise of a better life, everyman Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) and wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to abandon their stressed lives in Omaha in order to get small and move to a new downsized community — a choice that triggers life-changing adventures.
When previously talking about the film, the director compared the movie to the kind of story you might see in Black Mirror, but without the sci-fi feeling:
"The basic premise is a very delicious one, and it’s the premise that saw Jim and me through the many years to get this made… it’s very much like the previous movie Jim and I did, in that it takes something inherently absurd and ridiculous, but tells it with utter earnestness… kind of like what you see in Black Mirror. Some episodes of Black Mirror take a premise and run with it, but I’m not interested in the science fiction feeling; I always aspire to make a Hal Ashby or a Robert Altman movie, and the plot has a certain episodic structure."
The film has a great cast that also includes Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Laura Dern, Alec Baldwin, Jason Sudeikis, Neil Patrick Harris, and Udo Kier.
Downsizing opens in theaters on December 22nd.