A mind-bending new trailer for Hugh Jackman’s “Reminiscence” introduces a world where reliving one’s memories is very possible — and very risky.
Set in the not-so-distant future, the movie depicts Miami as being partly underwater due to rising sea levels, and so hot that society only operates at night to avoid the scorching sun.
Jackman’s Nick Bannister is seen in the trailer, which came out Thursday, as a veteran who uses an advanced form of war technology to tap into the minds of customers.
“We run this company that allows you to go back and not just revisit memories, but to relive them, as in to feel them, to see them, to touch them, to hear them,” Jackman said Wednesday during a virtual event previewing the trailer.
The trailer also introduces Rebecca Ferguson’s Mae, who begins a torrid romance with Bannister after using his memory service, before she suddenly disappears.
“It leads Nick Bannister into a very dark world where he tries to investigate what happened to her, who she really was, and what she really wanted,” said Lisa Joy, the film’s writer and director.
It’s the latest futuristic project for Joy, who co-created the HBO series “Westworld” with her husband, Jonathan Nolan.
She was thrilled Jackman signed on to star in “Reminiscence.”
“My character is a really, I would say, broken man at the beginning,” Jackman said Wednesday. “A really tough exterior, but his experiences in the war, on the front lines and also as an interrogator, has left him really quite broken and really sort of disengaged, I think, and distrusting of the world.”
Ferguson relished Joy’s vision for the movie and her character.
“We are seeing this character build through the eyes of every other character, really, but herself,” Ferguson said at the trailer event. “I found that very challenging. There were so many levels to it.”
Out Aug. 20 in theaters and on HBO Max, “Reminiscence” also stars Thandiwe Newton and Daniel Wu.
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