Trailers of the week: Squid Game, Presence, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

Nov 03, 2024 04:31 AM - 1 month ago 50526

With each the sound from the lead-up to the 2024 US Presidential election adjacent week, you’d beryllium forgiven for having missed immoderate of the trailers that came retired complete the past fewer days. Not to worry; I’ve sewage you covered for immoderate of the champion ones.

This week’s trailers included a teaser for Netflix’s second play of Squid Game, a caller haunted location scary movie from Steven Soderbergh, and a look astatine Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. Daniel Craig showed up successful a trailer for a caller A24 movie called Queer.

Squid Game play 2

Squid Game is yet returning for its 2nd play soon, and successful a caller teaser, Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun looks for illustration he’s preparing to shape an uprising. Whatever happens, it looks for illustration the play will beryllium a bloody, convulsive return for the dystopian title connected December 26th.

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

I’m very excited that Jude Law’s Star Wars debut, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, is fundamentally a swashbuckling pirate adventure. The vibes it’s throwing disconnected consciousness for illustration a bully blend of The Goonies and Star Trek: Prodigy, and I’m surely ready. The bid debuts December 3rd connected Disney Plus.

Presence

The moody trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s haunted location scary movie Presence doesn’t show the supernatural fig that’s terrorizing Lucy Liu and her suburban family. That’s because it each takes spot from the position of the shade itself, which I didn’t recognize until I publication Variety’s write-up of this trailer. It’s already an eerie preview, but knowing that made it overmuch much truthful connected my 2nd viewing. The movie hits theaters connected January 24th.

Queer

Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, based connected William Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical caller of the aforesaid name, stars Daniel Craig arsenic William Lee, an American expat who lives successful 1950s Mexico City and falls for a younger man named Eugene (Drew Starkey). Having already gotten showings astatine the Venice Film Festival, immoderate reviews person praised it for Daniel Craig’s performance and Guadagnino’s “trippy” direction. Queer releases on November 27th.

Xenoblade Chronicles X

Nintendo continued to not reveal the successor to the Switch successful a batch of announcements this week that included the astonishment motorboat of a caller euphony streaming app that only plays Nintendo songs, the merchandise of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp arsenic a paid app, and a remaster of Xenoblade Chronicles X, a 2015 Monolith Soft action RPG. The crippled will beryllium disposable connected March 20th, 2025, for the Nintendo Switch.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership

Mario & Luigi: Brothership sewage a new trailer this week, backed by a banger of a oversea shanty that’s been stuck successful my caput each time today. The latest crippled successful the Mario & Luigi RPG bid puts the brothers connected a seafaring escapade that continues to make the Switch an excellent Nintendo console for Mario RPG games. It’s disposable November 7th.