Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell Go On ’A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ in Trailer Debut at CinemaCon
’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey got a big and bold debut in Las Vegas on Monday.
Sony used its presentation to bring out the filmmaker, who introduced exclusive footage from the upcoming film starring and from studio label Columbia Pictures.
Kogonada said he was inspired to make the movie “because it’s the kind of film that I would want to watch in a packed theater.” He used a string of adjectives to describe it, including “original,” “surprising,” “romantic,” “and, I hope, moving.” He revealed a few more specifics by saying that he considers it a film about two people reckoning with their pasts to find love in the present. Kogonada also praised his Oscar nominated actors as “two extraordinary stars at the peak of their craft.” He added: “They light up the screen together.”
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The emotionally resonate trailer showed the pair of strangers meeting up on a rain soaked evening for an unspecified event that they both attended solo. They have an intimate and flirty discussion followed by a random encounter days later when the AI navigation device inside the car of Farrell’s character leads him back to Robbie’s character whose car has broken down. The AI voice asks, “Do you want to go on a big bold beautiful journey?”
What ensues is a road trip turned magical journey as they step through a series of doors to their respective pasts. “Discover a world…where every door unlocks a memory,” boasts the promo in what promises to be a romantic and emotional trip for the two.
Lily Rabe, Jodie Turner-Smith, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Hamish Linklater round out the cast. The script was penned by Seth Reiss, who previously wrote The Menu and served as a writer on Late Night With Seth Meyers. It bows Sept. 19.
Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Ryan Friedkin, Reiss and Youree Henley produced the Imperative Entertainment and 30West film which was executive produced by Kogonada, Ilene Feldman and Ori Eisen.
Kogonada is known for his previous work After Yang, also starring Farrell and Turner-Smith, Columbus starring John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson and Parker Posey, and TV directing gigs on Pachinko and The Acolyte.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey will mark Robbie’s return to the big-screen as a performer since the summer of 2023, when she appeared in the Wes Anderson comedy Asteroid City in June followed by the billion dollar blockbuster smash Barbie for director Greta Gerwig. Farrell most recently starred in the HBO series The Penguin and the feature The Banshees of Inisherin, the latter of which snagged him an Oscar nomination.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey will have some competition the weekend it hits theaters. Also debuting Sept. 19 will be Universal’s horror film Him starring Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers, and 20th Century Studios’ James L. Brooks-helmed Ella McCay starring Emma Mackey, Woody Harrelson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Albert Brooks and Ayo Edebiri, among others.
CinemaCon, the annual gathering of cinema owners and Hollywood studios, is hosted in Las Vegas by the newly rebranded Cinema United, which for decades was known as the National Association of Theatre Owners. This year’s edition runs from March 31 to April 3.
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