COUP! Trailer (2024) Sarah Gadon, Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen

COUP! Trailer (2024) Sarah Gadon, Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen

COUP! Trailer (2024) Sarah Gadon, Billy Magnussen, Peter Sarsgaard
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"You're blaming everyone but yourself" Greenwich Ent. has revealed the official trailer for a wacky indie film called Coup!, from filmmakers Joseph Schuman & Austin Stark. This originally premiered at last year's 2023 Venice Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight (Giornate degli Autori) sidebar. Set during the Spanish Flu of 1918, a rebellious servant leads a revolt against his wealthy employer. It's now ready for an art house release starting in August this summer - it's opening in less than a month. Isolated on a seaside estate, an entitled journalist (Billy Magnussen) and his socialite wife (Sarah Gadon) take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook (Peter Sarsgaard). When a plague descends on the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. Their wealthy employer suspects the cook's coup is part of a dangerous agenda, and mind games between master and servant escalate into boisterous class warfare. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Skye P. Marshall, Faran Tahir, Kristine Nielsen & Fisher Stevens. This film looks like it starts out interesting, then goes totally off the rails crazy by the end.

Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Schuman & Stark's film Coup!, direct from YouTube:

Coup! Film Poster

Isolated on a seaside estate during the 1918 Spanish Flu, an entitled journalist (Billy Magnussen) and his socialite wife (Sarah Gadon) take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook (Peter Sarsgaard). However, when the plague descends upon the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. Their wealthy employer suspects the cook's coup is part of a more sinister agenda, and mind games between master and servant escalate into boisterous class warfare in this radical comedy. Coup! is co-written ad co-directed by indie filmmakers Joseph Schuman (his feature directorial debut) & Austin Stark (director of the films The Runner and The God Committee, plus a few shorts). Produced by Amanda Bowers, Molly Conners, Warner Davis, Harris Gurny, Brian Levy, Jane Oster Sinisi. This initially premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival last year in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar. Greenwich Ent. will release Schuman & Stark's Coup! in select US theaters starting August 2nd, 2024 this summer. Look any good?

Peter Sarsgaard is serving up sabotage in a 20th century satire.

The actor leads the film “Coup!,” which debuted at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival. Sarsgaard stars as a sinister private cook who is hired by a journalist (Billy Magnussen) to live with him on an island amid the Spanish Flu epidemic.

The official synopsis reads: Isolated on a seaside estate during the 1918 Spanish Flu, an entitled journalist (Magnussen) and his socialite wife (Sarah Gadon) take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook (Sarsgaard). When the plague descends on the island, the wily cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. Their wealthy employer suspects the cook’s coup is part of a more sinister agenda, and mind games between master and servant escalate into boisterous class warfare.

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Faran Tahir, Skye P. Marshall, and Kristine Nielsen co-star.

Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman co-direct the feature that, according to the IndieWire review, takes the “eat the rich” message a little too literally.

“‘Coup!’ isn’t objectionable for its politics, it’s objectionable for trying to deny them. Unless its politics are just that muddled, and then Stark and Schuman have no idea at all how to express whatever it is they’re trying to say,” IndieWire’s Christian Blauvelt wrote. “Sarsgaard’s performance is all yokel charisma, a ‘man of action’ who takes charge and provides for his surrogate family by hunting game on the island when the last stores shutter and the ferry to the mainland stops. […] The message is clear, equivocating from the filmmakers aside: liberal males are hypocrites who only profess the things they do because they can’t be the Alpha Male they secretly fantasize to be. Unless, of course, they somehow can ultimately live out that Alpha Male fantasy.”

Sarsgaard will next star in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” alongside Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz, Jessie Buckley, and Annette Bening.

“It’s this big, romantic, deeply romantic, wild, punk monster movie,” Sarsgaard said of wife Gyllenhaal’s film, in which he plays a detective investigating Bale’s Frankenstein. “I think it’s going to be energizing! It’s rambunctious! People are going to be very surprised that this is Maggie’s second movie. It is nothing, at all, like [Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut] ‘The Lost Daughter.’”

“Coup!” premieres in theaters August 2. Check out the trailer below.

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