The Reminiscence trailer is right here. Set in a dystopian close to future with rising water ranges flooding cities, mankind has created expertise that enables individuals to totally immerse themselves in their previous experiences, making them really feel as actual as actual life. It’s in this setting that we observe a moody Hugh Jackman enjoying a “private investigator of the mind” who takes his shoppers on a “journey through memory”. That description and the trailer really feel a bit like Inception, which is somewhat humorous as a result of Reminiscence is the feature-length directorial debut for Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy, whose brother-in-law by the way is Inception writer-director Christopher Nolan.
Mae (Rebecca Ferguson) walks into Nick Bannister’s (Jackman) workplace late one evening, and you’ll inform he is immediately fallen in love. And how will you not, it is Ferguson — of Mission: Impossible fame — wanting so dreamy in spite of everything. And in the event you want any instant clue the place that is going, simply have a look at Ferguson’s purple costume from considered one of her recollections, a transparent as day signal that she’s the femme fatale. Nick explains how this world got here to be, giving us a glimpse at his previous with Mae. “Nothing is more addictive than the past,” he provides, as his co-worker (Thandiwe Newton) pulls him out of the machine. Why is he wanting by way of their previous? Well, Mae has since vanished.
Naturally, she has turn into much more than a shopper for Nick — it is an obsession — and he realises that he should dig by way of her previous to search out out the place she’s gone. Turns out she has a darkish previous that he did not know a lot about. At one level, he mutters to himself: “Was she running from the past? Or racing back towards it?” Said mysterious previous seemingly has ties to a personality performed by Daniel Wu. In one other scene, an unseen actor tells Nick: “You think you want answers, but you don’t.” As Nick continues his search regardless, issues get increasingly critical, with of us threatening to stab him with needles and even outright shoot him.
In addition to Jackman, Ferguson, Newton, and Wu, Reminiscence additionally stars Cliff Curtis, Marina de Tavira, Mojean Aria, Brett Cullen, Natalie Martinez, Angela Sarafyan, and Nico Parker. Behind the scenes, Joy is directing off a script she wrote herself. Joy can also be a producer on Reminiscence alongside fellow Westworld co-creator and husband Jonathan Nolan, Michael De Luca, and Aaron Ryder. The first-time film director has introduced on a number of Westworld collaborators, together with director of images Paul Cameron, manufacturing designer Howard Cummings, editor Mark Yoshikawa, and composer Ramin Djawadi. Reminiscence is a manufacturing of Joy and Nolan’s Kilter Films, Michael De Luca Productions, and FilmNation Entertainment. Warner Bros. Pictures is the distributor.
Reminiscence will launch August 20 in cinemas worldwide and on HBO Max.
Reminiscence poster
The official Reminiscence poster
Photo Credit: Warner Bros.
