The film is directed by former SNL host Kyle Mooney and produced by Jonah Hill.
A24 premiered the first trailer for Tuesday morning Y2Khis R-rated disaster comedy starring Jaeden Martell (Item), Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) and Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2), which imagines a world in which the computer crisis predicted for the year 2000 actually happened.
The film directed by the former SNL Kyle Mooneywhich will have its world premiere at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, is set to hit theaters on December 6.
What is Y2K about?
In the Evan Winter-penned film set on New Year’s Eve 1999, two untalented high school students (Martell, Dennison) decide to crash the last big party before the new millennium. When the clock strikes midnight, the night becomes crazier than they ever imagined.
The trailer features the classic melody of Chumbawamba from 1997, “Tubthumping,” introduces us to Eli (Martell), whose mother, Robin (Alicia Silverstone), asks if “any lucky ladies” are going to “get the midnight kiss” with the New Year on the horizon. We learn that the young woman Eli has his eye on is Laura (Zegler), who, upon meeting Eli at a convenience store, tells him that she’s attending a New Year’s party that night that should be “a complete disaster.”
Later, as Eli and Danny (Dennison) get drunk at the party, we see Laura making out with another guy. The lights go out and chaos breaks out as we learn that a “global computer apocalypse” is coming. Among the goriest aspects of the trailer is the image of a Tamagotchi-controlled drill threatening to pierce a young girl’s head.
Elsewhere, the hills are on fire and we see a pair of planes crash into each other due to technical issues. At the climax of the trailer, Eli tells Laura: “This has been the worst night of my life, but it’s great that we got to hang out together for once.”
The cast also includes Lachlan Watson, Mason Goodingthe rapper The Kid Laroi, Tim Heidecker, Eduardo Franco, Miles Robbins, Fred Hechinger and Daniel Zolghadri.
A24 financed Y2K and produced the film alongside Winter, Strong Baby’s Matt Dines, Ali Goodwin and Jonah Hill (Mid90s), and The Bear creator Christopher Storer under their American Light & Accessory banner. Wēt Workshop oversaw the film’s design and practical effects.
Source: Ambito
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