The first trailer for Jeff Nichols’ Mud, starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon, has landed online.
From Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols, Mud premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival to largely positive reviews, and will appear at next week’s 2013 Sundance Film Festival before opening in theaters April 26. Take a look at the trailer below, thanks to Yahoo!:
Also starring young actors Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland, Sam Shephard (Black Hawk Down), Michael Shannon (Take Shelter) and Sarah Paulson (Serenity), early buzz on the film is that it’s terrific. The synopsis is as follows:
Two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone (Sheridan and Lofland), who find a man named Mud (McConaughey) hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios — he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper (Witherspoon), who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn’t long until Mud’s visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.