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‘Dual’ Trailer – Karen Gillan Has a Fight to the Death With Her Clone in Wild New Movie
In the wake of landing a massive deal out of Sundance, RLJE Films is getting set to release Dual from director Riley Stearns, a genre film starring Karen Gillan and Aaron Paul.
Collider has shared the official Dual trailer today, giving us a good idea of how this wild premise will play out. The premise, you ask? Well, Dual is set in a world where people can have themselves cloned when they’re about to die, and Karen Gillan plays the character at the center of the tale. She has herself cloned, but then realizes she’s not actually dying anymore.
The solution? The two are forced to have a fight to the death, leaving only one of them alive to walk the Earth. You can watch the wacky Dual trailer below to see how that all works!
Dual arrives in theaters on April 15, 2022.
“Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a sudden and miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death. Now she has one year to train her body and mind for the fight of her life.”
“Dual was a film we were targeting from the beginning of the Sundance Film Festival and it exceeded our expectations,” RLJE Films’ Chief Acquisition Officer, Mark Ward, said in a statement earlier this year. “We are happy to be working with our partners at XYZ Films yet again and can’t wait to release the film later this year.”
“Shooting Dual with XYZ during a global pandemic will forever be an experience I look back on with a tremendous amount of pride,” added Stearns. “I’m beyond thrilled to enter the next stage of this journey with the team at RLJE Films and I can’t wait for audiences to see a film which we all deeply care for.”
Meagan wrote in her 3.5 star Sundance review, “Dual uses deadpan delivery and oddball performances to capture the strangeness of life, especially when faced with death.”
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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