Equals Poster & Teaser
Monday, February 15, 2016 at 10:00AM Manuel here. After premiering at Toronto last year, Drake Doremus's (Like Crazy) sci-fi romance Equals is headed our way soon via A24. And perhaps as a way to dispel the mixed-reaction this Kristen Stewart/Nicholas Hoult flick got at the busy Canadian festival, we've been given two beautiful pieces of marketing: a gorgeous one-sheet poster (with the nevertheless corny tagline, "Find your equal") and a Chromatics-scored teaser trailer that shows us the sleek and slate future Doremus has cooked up.
In case the beautifully bleak futuristic visuals don't give it away, the film centers on a dystopian future where human emotions have been eradicated...or have they? There really is only one way a plot like that develops but it'll make a nice addition to this growing romance-deconstruction-via-sci-fi genre to which Spike Jonze, Alex Garland, and Jonathan Glazer have treated us in these past few years.
Check out the teaser below and discuss with us whether anyone could really resist Hoult's cheekbones, even or especially, when told not to.
Reader Comments (7)
Great use of the Chromatics song. I wasn't a fan of Like Crazy as I found Felicity Jones's character exasperating, and it drove me too crazy at all the stupid choices they were making. I guess that was basically the point of the movie, but I really don't enjoy reliving other people's "drama."
It actually premiered at Venice a few days before it played TIFF.
Not sure what Equals is about but I'll buy whatever cologne they're advertising.
Feel like Colin Firth right now.
I'm totally going to see this. The usage of the Chromatics' "Kill for Love" won me over.
Casting Kristen Stewart in this is pretty perfect, I must say.
Love the post and the trailer is nifty with that Chromatics song.