A summit of influential male billionaires is beneath manner within the first teaser trailer for Mountainhead.
HBO unveiled the prolonged have a look at the first function from the Succession creator Jesse Armstrong on Tuesday, which stars Steve Carell, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef and Jason Schwartzman as a gaggle of billionaire pals who meet at an alpine retreat throughout a global disaster.
The teaser finds the group jostling with one another at a sterile mountain home paying homage to Succession’s Argestes retreat. “Have you seen what your net worth is doing?” Smith’s character says to Youssef’s, who replies: “Your platform is racist and shitty.” But playful banter and group actions, similar to a snowmobile outing in matching uniforms, offers technique to seemingly intense battle – and a name from the US president as social unrest erupts in quite a few nations, glimpsed in mock CNN information studies.
The movie, which is able to air on 31 May and see simultaneous launch on the streaming service Max, additionally stars Moxie’s Hadley Robinson and comic Andy Daly. Armstrong directed the function from his personal script with an extremely quick turnaround: manufacturing solely commenced in Park City, Utah, in March and wrapped earlier this month.
Though Mountainhead marks his function directorial debut, he has beforehand contributed as a author on movies similar to In The Loop, Downhill and The Day Shall Come.
The movie comes two years after he wrapped Succession, a status TV juggernaut thought-about by some the defining show of the Trump era. Over the course of its 4 seasons from 2018 to 2023, Succession garnered 75 Emmy nominations and 19 wins, together with three for greatest drama sequence.
The present additionally launched expertise in entrance of and behind the digital camera to awards acclaim. Kieran Culkin, who performed youngest brother Roman Roy, received one of the best supporting actor Oscar this 12 months for A Real Pain, competing towards co-star and a number of Emmy winner Jeremy Strong.
The Succession author Francesca Gardiner and frequent director Mark Mylod will helm HBO’s new Harry Potter tv sequence as showrunner and director, respectively. And actor Sarah Snook is at the moment starring on Broadway in The Picture of Dorian Gray, after a critically acclaimed run enjoying 26 characters within the West End.
