Y2K Trailer (2024) Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, A24 Movie

Y2K Trailer (2024) Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, A24 Movie

A24 has released the official trailer for the apocalyptic comedy “Y2K,” starring Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler and Julian Dennison.

Per the official logline: “On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.”

The trailer shows several homicidal machines in “Y2K,” including a Tamagotchi drilling a whole in a someone’s head, a VHS player hurling tapes at high school students, and a pink toy jeep lighting someone on fire.

“Y2K” marks “Saturday Night Live” veteran Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut. Mooney directed the sci-fi comedy from a script he co-wrote with Evan Winter, while Jonah Hill served as a producer on the film.

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Variety‘s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman wrote in his review, “‘Y2K’ is swimming in succulent period references and detail. A scuzzy local DVD store. A CD mixtape. The Pam and Tommy tape. Abercrombie. White kids doing their white version of freestyling. ‘Praise You’ and ‘Tubthumping.’ Not to mention the last fading version of that mythic figure, the video-store clerk — in this case a blissed-out druggie with hippie dreads named Garrett, played by Mooney, whose cracked performance, all ‘Yo!’ and ‘wha-a-a-at?‘ and stoner grins, is one of the most winning things in the movie.”

“Y2K” premieres in theaters Dec. 6.

Watch the full trailer below.

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A24 has unveiled the trailer for Y2K, a disaster comedy film that is set to premiere on December 6, 2024. Kyle Mooney, a Saturday Night Live alumnus, wrote and directed it.

The studio behind Hereditary, Lady Bird, Moonlight, The Whale and Past Lives is planning to release another film that will explore the themes of disaster and nostalgia with references to the late ’90s and early 2000s.

In the film penned by Evan Winter, the Y2K trailer depicts a New Year’s Eve that went wrong. The film focus on two high school buddies who witness the world fall into massive distraction as a result of a Y2K breakdown as they celebrate the year 2000.

The film stars Rachel Zegler (West Side Story, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) as Laura, Jaeden Martell (Mr. Harrigan’s Phone) as Eli, and Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2) as Danny.

In the trailer, the kids are quick to laugh it off and assume that it might just be a prank when the power goes out at midnight. It’s odd that the madness in Y2K‘s trailer has a resemblance to the real panic that led people to buy toilet paper and water in bulk fearing that a programming error would destroy our technological infrastructure.

The film was produced and financed by A24 and filmed alongside Winter, Matt Dines, Ali Goodwin, and Jonah Hill from Strong Baby (Mid90s), and Christopher Storer, who created The Bear under his American Light & Fixture banner.

Per the official logline: “On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.”

World premiering at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, the film seems to go too far into absurdity and silliness, leaving it a bit of a grating experience when it hits theaters on December 6th.

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A24 on Tuesday morning debuted the first trailer for Y2K, its R-rated disaster comedy starring Jaeden Martell (It films), Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) and Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2), which imagines a world in which the computer crisis predicted for the year 2000 actually came to pass.

World premiering at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, the film directed by SNL alum Kyle Mooney, on which we were first to report in March 2023, is slated for release in theaters on December 6.

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In the film penned by Evan Winter, which is set on New Year’s Eve 1999, two high school nobodies (Martell, Dennison) decide to crash the last big party before the new millennium. When the clock strikes midnight, the night gets more insane than they ever could have imagined.

Set to Chumbawamba’s classic 1997 tune “Tubthumping,” the trailer introduces us to Eli (Martell), whose mother Robin (Alicia Silverstone) asks him whether “any lucky lady” is “going to get the midnight kiss” with the new year on the horizon. We learn that the young woman Eli has his eye on is Laura (Zegler), who in running into Eli at a convenience store, shares that she’s attending a New Year’s party that night that should be “a total sh*tshow.”

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Later, as Eli and Danny (Dennison) get drunk at the party, we see Laura making out with another guy. The lights subsequently go out and mayhem ensues as we learn that a “global computer apocalypse” is upon us. Among the gory trailer highlights teasing that is the sight of a Tamagotchi-controlled drill threatening to go through a young woman’s head.

Elsewhere, the hills are on fire, and we watch as a pair of planes fly into one another due to tech issues. At the climax of the trailer, Eli tells Laura, “This has been the sh*ttiest night of my life, but it’s cool that we got to hang out for once.”

A24 financed Y2K and produced the film along with Winter, Matt Dines, Ali Goodwin and Jonah Hill (Mid90s) of Strong Baby, and The Bear creator Christopher Storer under his American Light & Fixture banner. Wētā Workshop oversaw the film’s design and practical effects.

Pic’s stacked ensemble also includes Lachlan Watson, Mason Gooding, rapper The Kid Laroi, Tim Heidecker, Eduardo Franco, Miles Robbins, Fred Hechinger and Daniel Zolghadri.

Check out the Y2K trailer above.

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Jaeden Martell
Julian Dennison
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Rachel Zegler
Y2K
Directed by Kyle Mooney
Written by
Kyle Mooney
Evan Winter
Produced by
Jonah Hill
Matt Dines
Allison Goodwin
Christopher Storer
Cooper Wehde
Evan Winter
Starring
Jaeden Martell
Julian Dennison
Rachel Zegler
Fred Durst
Alicia Silverstone
Cinematography Bill Pope
Edited by David Marks
Music by
Danny Bensi
Saunder Jurriaans
Production
companies
A24
Strong Baby Productions
American Light & Fixture
Distributed by A24
Release dates
March 9, 2024 (SXSW)
December 6, 2024 (United States)
Country United States
Language English
Y2K is a 2024 American satirical disaster comedy horror[1][2] film directed by Kyle Mooney in his directorial debut, written by Mooney and Evan Winter, and starring Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Rachel Zegler, Fred Durst, and Alicia Silverstone.

It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 9, 2024,[3] and is scheduled to be released by A24 in the United States on December 6, 2024.

Premise
The film depicts an imaginative version of the Year 2000 problem. While two loser friends crash a high school party on New Year's Eve 1999, the bug causes all technology to come to life and turn against humanity.

Cast
Jaeden Martell as Eli
Julian Dennison as Danny
Rachel Zegler as Laura
Daniel Zolghadri as CJ
Lachlan Watson as Ash
Eduardo Franco as Farkas
Fred Durst as himself
Kyle Mooney as Garrett
Mason Gooding as Jonas
The Kid Laroi as Soccer Chris
Miles Robbins as Nugz
Alicia Silverstone as Robin
Tim Heidecker as Howard
Lauren Balone as Raleigh
Kevin Mangold as Cool Blue[4]
Production
It was announced in early March 2023 that Kyle Mooney would direct Y2K for A24. Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Rachel Zegler, Lachlan Watson, Mason Gooding, The Kid Laroi, Eduardo Franco, Miles Robbins, Fred Hechinger, Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker and Daniel Zolghadri joined the cast. Additionally, Weta Workshop worked on the effects for the film.[5] In April 2023, Sebastian Chacon and Lauren Balone joined the cast.[6]

Principal photography began in April 2023 in Ringwood, New Jersey.[7][8] The following month, filming continued in Ringwood and Chatham Borough and in Clark at the recreation center, before wrapping.[9][10]

Release
It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 9, 2024.[3] It is scheduled to be released on December 6, 2024.[11]

Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 63% of 30 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10.[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 52 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[13]
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