After months of waiting, the first trailer for Hail, Caesar! from the Coen Brothers has released!
The film follows Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), a Hollywood “fixer” helping the production of the upcoming film entitled Hail Caesar starring Baird Whitlock (George Clooney). When Whitlock is kidnapped by a group named “The Future,” Mannix is the one in charge of collecting 100,000 dollars and rescuing him. The film is set in the 1950s Hollywood.
The film has a star studded cast including:
- Josh Brolin as Eddie Mannix, a fixer who keeps actors’ scandals out of the press.
- George Clooney as Baird Whitlock
- Alden Ehrenreich as Tobey
- Ralph Fiennes as Laurence Lorenz, a film director
- Jonah Hill as Joseph Silverman
- Scarlett Johansson as “an actress who suddenly becomes pregnant as her film is about to go into production”
- Frances McDormand as a film editor
- Tilda Swinton as a gossip columnist
- Channing Tatum as Burt, an actor and one of Mannix’s clients.
- Christopher Lambert as Arne Slessum, a filmmaker who has an affair with the female star of Hail, Caesar!, the film within a film
- Kate Morgan Chadwick
- Dolph Lundgren as a Soviet “submarine commander”
Hail, Caesar! releases on February 5. You can watch the trailer below:
