MARMALADE Trailer (2024) Joe Keery, Camila Morrone

MARMALADE Trailer (2024) Joe Keery, Camila Morrone

MARMALADE Trailer (2024) Joe Keery, Camila Morrone, Aldis Hodge
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Joe Keery’s newest role is just under a month away, with the Stranger Things star taking on a heist in Marmalade. The upcoming feature stars Keery as a young man who embarks on a dangerous scheme with a woman he believes is the love of his life. Today, Signature Entertainment released the first trailer for Marmalade. It’s due to arrive in theaters and On Demand on February 9 in the US, and February 12 in the UK and Ireland.

As mentioned, Marmalade centers on Keery’s Baron, a recently incarcerated man chronicling his whirlwind relationship with Marmalade (Camila Morrone), the love of his life. Together, the duo crafted a plan to rob a bank that was meant to help them both, as well as give Baron a chance to care for his mother. However, Baron eventually winds up in jail with a cellmate named Otis (Aldis Hodge) who has a reputation for prison breaks. So, desperate to return to his life, Baron and Otis work together to escape and help Baron reunite with Marmalade.

The trailer begins on an intense note, just as Baron and Marmalade set their plan into action. But there’s more to Baron’s story before the heist, as viewers get a glimpse into Baron’s day-to-day routine. Mundane as it seems, meeting Marmalade brings some excitement into his life, though Baron soon begins to realize there’s more to her than he once believed — and not entirely in a good way. As the trailer winds down, it teases a greater connection between Baron, Marmalade, and Otis, aiming to fulfill its promise of an “edge-of-your-seat crime-tinged romance tale.”

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Camila Morrone kissing Joe Keery in a convertible in MarmaladeImage via Signature Entertainment
Marmalade was co-written by cinematographer Polly Morgan and Keir O’Donnell. It marks the directorial debut of O’Donnell, known primarily for his acting. He has previously starred in various film and television projects such as Ray Donovan, American Sniper, Fargo, and Legion, among several others. Signature Film’s Marc Goldberg and Sarah Gabriel — Bull alums — Silver Lining Entertainment’s Jason Shapiro, and Tea Shop Productions’ James Harris and Mark Lane — I Am Not a Serial Killer alums — serve as producers.

Marmalade releases in theaters and On Demand on February 9. Watch the trailer below:

Marmalade Film Poster
Marmalade
Drama
Romance
Thriller
Follows a man in jail who narrates the colorful tale of a romantic bank heist to his cunning cellmate to escape and reunite with the alluring love of his life.

Release Date
February 8, 2024
Director
Keir O'Donnell
Cast
Joe Keery , Camila Morrone , Aldis Hodge , Wayne Duvall
Runtime
99 minutes
Main Genre
Drama
Writers
Keir O'Donnell

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Joe Keery and Camila Morrone‘s upcoming film Marmalade is full of chemistry, complications and crime, so expect Us to be seated in the front row.

“Once upon a time, I was just a wee boy. I worked at the post office. Then [I met] the girl of my dreams,” Keery’s character, Baron, says in Us Weekly‘s exclusive first look at the movie’s trailer. “From then on, we was inseparable.”

The sneak peek shows Baron agreeing to help his girlfriend, Marmalade (Morrone), rob banks when he needs money for his mother’s medicine. But what starts out as a means of survival quickly puts Baron’s future at risk and makes him question Marmalade’s true intentions.

Marmalade, which was written and directed by Keir O’Donnell, flashes back to Baron’s intense romance with Marmalade after he is imprisoned for their crimes. Determined to be reunited with the love of his life, Baron strikes up a friendship with his cellmate Otis (Aldis Hodge) as they make a plan to escape.

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The movie is an unexpected addition to the filmographies of both Keery, 31, and Morrone, 26. Keery is best known for playing Steve Harrington on Netflix’s Stranger Things but has started to choose more edgy roles as he prepares for the series to end.

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In 2020’s Spree, Keery played a social media obsessed rideshare driver who murders his passengers in an attempt to go viral. He followed that up with scene-stealing performances in Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds and in an Italian period drama titled Finally Dawn with costars Lily James, Willem Dafoe and Rachel Sennott.

On the small screen, Keery has received praise for playing Gator Tillman on season 5 of FX’s Fargo. He previously spoke about wanting to pursue roles that set him apart from his fan-favorite Stranger Things character.

“I think shaking things up is exactly what I’ve been trying to do. I just really want to work on something that is different and with complex characters, preferably as someone with an arc who learns or grows from something,” he said during an August 2020 interview with The Playlist. “Maybe even more important than the script for me is the director, who is at the end of the day the person I’m going to be working with closest and needs to be someone I can talk to, and so far that is something I’ve been really lucky to have had happen in everything I’ve worked in.”

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Keery further opened up about how his childhood inspired his interest in acting, telling The Hollywood Reporter that same month, “I have three younger sisters, so the four of us would make movies together, and I would be kind of in charge. I’d be the director, actually.”

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He continued: “I’d sort of tell them, ‘OK, you’re the lead actor. You’re going to do this. You guys are these two characters. And we’re going to shoot this movie.’ And we would shoot the movie, then I would cut the movie together and then we would play the movie for my family. That was maybe the beginnings of all this.”

Morrone, meanwhile, juggled both acting and modeling before earning an Emmy nomination for playing Camila Alvarez-Dunne in Prime Video’s limited series Daisy Jones & the Six. She has also appeared in movies such as Death Wish, Mickey and the Bear, Valley Girl and Gonzo Girl.

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“I’ve always been a bit of a ham, and I grew up surrounded by industry people, so I always knew that [acting] was something I’d end up doing. But I was also a bit in denial,” Morrone told Interview Magazine in August. “I was in denial even with myself and I was pretending like I wasn’t going to do it. Meanwhile, I knew it was all I ever wanted to do. But being born in L.A., you’re so exposed to the industry at a young age that there is a part of you that rebels against it before you inevitably dive into it.”

Morrone admitted she had reservations about becoming an actress, adding, “What has given me confidence has always been to work with a coach. I was hesitant about acting class for a really long time and then when I dove into it, you realize there are infinite possibilities to explore within this craft. I’m never going to hit perfection or know it all, so I’m just going to soak up everything.”

Marmalade premieres in theaters and on demand on February 9.