Searchlight’s Sam Mendes Love Drama ‘Empire Of Light’ Gets New Trailer – Update

UPDATED 09:22: Searchlight Pictures has unveiled a new trailer for the romantic drama rich in lightwith Oscar winner Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter) and BAFTA winner Michael Ward (big boy), which hits US theaters on December 9.

The latest nominee from Oscar-winning writer-director Sam Mendes (1917) is set in and around a faded old cinema in an English seaside town in the early 1980s. The protagonists are Hilary (Colman), a film executive who struggles with her mental health, and Stephen (Ward), a new tenant who longs to escape from this provincial town where he faces adversity on a daily basis. Both Hilary and Stephen find a sense of connection through their unlikely and tender relationship and experience the healing power of music, film and community.

Read more about the film, which had its world premiere at Telluride in September, below. Watch the new trailer above.

EARLY AUGUST 24: “Nothing happens without light,” says Toby Jones’ character at the end of the trailer for Sam Mendes’ latest film, which is billed as “a love story set in and around a beautiful old cinema on the south coast of England in the Set in the 1970s. .eighties.”

plot details rich in light became rare. The trailer seems to mix the love between Olivia Colman’s character and the character played by Micheal Ward with the magic of cinema.

“Movie: It’s just static frames with darkness in between,” says Jones’ character in the voiceover. “But there is a small fault in your optic nerve. So when I run the film at 24 frames per second, there is an illusion of movement, an illusion of life. So you don’t see the darkness. Furthermore, they only see a ray of light. And nothing works without light.”

Oscar winners Mendes and Colman are collaborating on the film with fellow Academy Award winners Colin Firth, cinematographer Roger Deakins, and musicians Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

Such a metal-heavy cast and crew automatically makes awards shows, and Searchlight applauds that. rich in light will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival next month and the BFI London Film Festival in October, ahead of its December 9 release.

This will be Mendes’ first film since being nominated for an Oscar 1917 and the first time he and Colman worked together. The drama was written by Mendes, his first solo script. He also produces.