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Warner Bros. has launched a brand new trailer for M. Evening Shyamalan’s Lure, through which a serial killer colorfully dubbed “the Butcher” (Josh Hartnett) learns the cops plan to ambush him on the live performance he’s simply taken his daughter to. Feast your eyes beneath:

Lure | Official Trailer 2

Although Shyamalan has used villain protagonists earlier than, Lure can be his first putting a wished serial killer in a job historically reserved for everyman motion heroes in movies like Die Laborious or Sudden Loss of life. It’s an intriguing inversion of a acquainted trope, and one which begs the query: is Josh Hartnett the best actor for this? The teen idol-turned-television star—who, in accordance with a 2020 interview with the Guardian, credit a 2001 Vanity Fair article with derailing his profession—has been inching towards a comeback within the final yr, taking part in each physicist Ernest Lawrence in Oppenheimer and a memorable astronaut in Black Mirror.

Lure co-stars Ariel Donoghue, Hayley Mills, Alison Capsule, Marnie McPhail, and Vanessa Smythe, plus Saleka Shyamalan as “Girl Raven,” the pop star turned snare. It opens August 2.


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