Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander are a pretty great foundation for a movie about world leaders responding to a global crisis. Throw in Charles Dance and you’re pretty much guaranteed to have a film we’ll want to see. But those three are far from the only reason we’re excited about Bleeker Street’s upcoming apocalyptic horror-comedy Rumours. It has another big selling point. Something big and cerebral. Literally big and cerebral, actually. And also strange. The movie also stars a gigantic brain.
Bleeker Street’s first Rumours trailer is a brief sneak peek at what looks to be a very weird movie. While this promo is short on specifics, it’s gigantic brain speaks volumes about what we can expect. As does the film’s official synopsis:
Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles Dance, these so-called leaders become spectacles of incompetence, contending with increasingly surreal obstacles in the misty woods as night falls and they realize they are suddenly alone.
What about that big free-floating brain? Will those politicians find themselves under attack by the brain? Calling on the brain for help? Combining to form one single brain? And why are the world’s G7 leaders digging up a grave together?!? No idea, can’t wait to find out.
Rumours comes from director Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson. Evan Johnson also wrote the script. The movie also stars Roy Dupuis, Zlatko Buric, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet, and Rolando Ravello. It had its world premiere earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, but it won’t debut in theaters until October 18.
Whose big idea was it to make the rest of us wait for something so intriguing? We have a theory…