Trailer: Jonah Hill & Emma Stone Reunite For Netflix’s MANIAC
Cary Fukunaga directs Maniac, a new mind-bending series for Netflix that reunites Superbad co-stars Jonah Hill and Emma Stone. This is one hell of a quirky trailer for the series, which drops on the streaming service on 21 September. But might this be a little too cool for school? I don’t know but True Detective bought Fukunaga some serious credit with Movies In Focus, so I’ll give it a whirl.
The trailer:
The synopsis:
Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, Maniac tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons. Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Maniac also stars Trudie Styler, Jemima Kirke and Gabriel Byrne.
Things do not go as planned.
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