UPDATE, with full trailer Aug. 6: Forward of its world premiere in competitors on the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition, A24 has launched the official trailer for Primetime, the Lance Oppenheim movie produced and starring Robert Pattinson as TV’s To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen.
The studio had launched a teaser for the movie in Could. As we speak’s launch is the primary full-length trailer.
Test it out above, and see under for the sooner teaser.
Primetime additionally stars Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo and Phoebe Bridgers.
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PREVIOUS, MAY 27: A24 has unveiled the primary trailer for Primetime, its forthcoming drama starring Robert Pattinson, which chronicles the origins of Chris Hansen’s To Catch a Predator.
In 2024, we have been first to report on Primetime, a movie from Ren Faire‘s Lance Oppenheim, which on the time hadn’t confirmed Hansen as the topic of the story, issuing a logline about “a journalist who takes on an underworld of crime and modifications tv ceaselessly.”
To Catch a Predator is after all the true-crime program placed on as a part of Dateline NBC, which chronicled Hansen’s efforts to out suspected little one predators, with the assistance of regulation enforcement and a staff of decoys pretending to be minors on-line.
Arrange as a break up display, the trailer hints at Hansen’s early efforts with the present, as Pattinson points dialogue that may ring acquainted to anybody who’s seen To Catch a Predator — questions Hansen would prod his topics with after catching them on digicam, in an alleged try to satisfy in particular person with a baby.
“What would have occurred if I wasn’t right here? You see how this appears to be like, proper?” Hansen asks. “On the finish of the day, a person have to be held accountable for the choices that he makes. Would you agree?”
Pattinson’s TV host later asks, “Do you watch tv? Effectively, there’s one thing you must know. I’m Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC — and also you’re in a position to be part of tv historical past.”
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Whereas Primetime‘s standpoint on Hansen and his program isn’t totally clear from the teaser, it wouldn’t be stunning to see the movie align with that of Predators, an acclaimed 2025 documentary from David Osit, which examined the doubtful ethics behind the manufacturing of To Catch a Predator. The teaser appears to recommend that the movie shall be within the vein of Dan Gilroy’s 2014 thriller Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a shady, ambulance-chasing L.A. stringer.
Additionally starring Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo and Phoebe Bridgers, Primetime will hit theaters this fall, although the movie has not but gotten an official launch date. Oppenheim directed from a script by Ajon Singh, with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fred Berger, Pattinson, Brighton McCloskey, Lars Knudsen and Tyler Campellone producing.
Take a look at the Primetime teaser under.
