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Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan star in first trailer for thriller Foe
The duo play a married couple living in 2065 in the upcoming sci-fi.
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- Patrick Cremona
Published: Thursday, 24 August 2023 at 5:37 pm
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Paul Mescal has more exciting film projects in the pipeline than just about any other actor at the moment, and a new trailer has just launched for one of his upcoming movies: Foe.
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Set in 2065, the sci-fi thriller sees Mescal star alongside four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan, with the Irish pair playing Junior and Hen, a married couple whose life is thrown into disarray when a stranger (Aaron Pierre) shows up at their secluded farm.
The trailer gives a fascinating glimpse of the film's haunting atmosphere as the stranger explains to Mescal's character that he needs "to have an intimate understanding of your marriage: the good and the bad".
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And things take a turn when he reveals his true purpose for being there: Junior has been chosen for a project that will see him sent to a large space station.
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"Do you want to live mundane lives, or do you want to be part of something special and unique?" he asks. "You've been selected to live up there."
He later clarifies that only Junior has been selected and that Hen will instead have the company of a robot in his absence – something that Junior seems not too happy about.
Intrigued? You can check out the full trailer below.
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The film is being distributed by Amazon Studios, which promises that it is full of "mesmerising imagery and persistent questions about the nature of humanity (and artificial humanity)".
Director Garth Davis co-wrote the script with Ian Reid – on whose 2018 novel of the same name the film is based – and it will arrive in UK cinemas on Friday 20th October 2023.
Mescal – who was Oscar-nominated for his role in Aftersun this year – is also slated to star in a number of other exciting projects in the not-so-distant future, including Gladiator 2 and Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers - first-look images for which arrived earlier this month.
Meanwhile, Ronan was last seen in the comedy whodunnit See How They Run and will have a leading role in Steve McQueen's upcoming Second World War drama Blitz.
Foe will be released in UK cinemas on 2oth October 2023. Check out more of our Film coverage, or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on.
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Patrick CremonaSenior Film Writer
Patrick Cremona is the Senior Film Writer at Radio Times, and looks after all the latest film releases both in cinemas and on streaming. He has been with the website since October 2019, and in that time has interviewed a host of big name stars and reviewed a diverse range of movies.
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