Bad Times at the El Royale Trailer: Everybody's Got a Secret

Bad Times at the El Royale

The house trailer forBad Times at the El Royalefinds Drew Goddard orchestrate a movie for the first sentence since his debut onThe Cabin in the Woods . Far from resting on his laurel , Goddard has compose a megahit hit ( The Martian ) , launch a Netflix series ( Marvel ’s Daredevil ) , and worked on various other film playscript and TV show ( The Defenders , The Good Place ) in the six years since his and Joss Whedon ’s meta repulsion / comedy hit house . On top of all that , he ’s now gearing up to shoot theDeadpoolmovie spinoffX - Forceafter he pose the last tactile sensation onBad Times .

Bad Times at the El Royalemight not be the exercise in self - reflexiveness thatCabin in the Woodsis , but that does n’t imply it ’s a run of the mill literary genre flick either . The film ’s premise is n’t too far off from James Mangold ’s 2003 noir throwbackIdentity , in that it concerns a radical of strangers meeting up at a seedy hotel where bad things start to happen . However , whereIdentitywas a Hellenic whodunit with a psychological spin , Bad Timesmay have something very different up its sleeve , going by the trailer .

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TheBad Timesensemble include Goddard’sCabin in the WoodsstarChris Hemsworth as a shirtless religious cult leader , along with Jon Hamm as a ( maybe unhinged ) salesman and Jeff Bridges as a scramble " priest " . Set at Lake Tahoe ’s El Royale hotel circa 1969 , the film put these three not - so - wise men on a hit class with Dakota Johnson and Cailee Spaeny as two sisters on the run , as well as Cynthia Erivo as a singer who ’s see good days . have it seven is Lewis Pullman as a concierge at the El Royale who , judging by theBad Timestrailer , might desire to look into finding himself a new professing .

The trailer forBad Times at the El Royalefurther ride home the idea that no one is who they exact to be , as far as the guests at the El Royale are concerned . Those who start the establishment are intelligibly fishy too , though it ’s not clear just yet who " they " even are , much less what they desire . likewise , at least a few of the guests at the hotel seem to have some anterior connection or have crossed paths at some point before this night .

As such , Bad Timesseems to have a few thing in unwashed withCabin in the Woods- when it do to patch - and further begs equivalence to a Coen Brothers criminal offence picture show ( Blood Simplein special ) , when it comes to flavor and panache . Between that and the great cast put together here , Bad Times at the El Royaleis shape up to be one of this fall ’s more intriguing original motion picture . The fact that it also includes a shirtless , dancing , and maybe malign Chris Hemsworth is just the icing on this cake .