The first trailer for Danny Boyle’s upcoming thriller Trance, starring James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson, has arrived online after airing last night on BBC1 in the UK.
From just skimming the trailer, it appears as if Boyle is attempting for a very unique style with the film, as there are unusual shots aplenty in this two minute trailer. Hopefully that will translate into a solid thriller, but you can decide that for yourself by watching the trailer below, via MSN:
Danny Boyle told USA Today of his approach to the film: “I wanted to do an updated noir, give it a contemporary spin in terms of emotion. Noir is usually cold. I wanted it to be more emotionally charged. It’s the first time I put a woman (Dawson) at the heart of a movie.”
Trance opens in the U.K. on March 27, 2013, but does not yet have a domestic release date.
Fine art auctioneer Simon (McAvoy), in league with a gang led by underworld boss Franck (Vincent Cassel), plots the audacious theft of a masterpiece by Goya from a major public auction. When Simon double-crosses the gang during the robbery, Franck retaliates violently and knocks him unconscious.
In the aftermath of the heist, Simon sticks stubbornly – and perhaps shrewdly – to his claim that the violent trauma has left him with no memory of where he stashed the artwork.
Unable to coerce the painting’s location from Simon, Franck and his associates reluctantly join forces with a charismatic hypnotherapist (Dawson) in a bid to get him to talk. But as they journey deeper into Simon’s jumbled psyche the boundaries between reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur and the stakes rise faster and far more dangerously than any of the players could have anticipated.