'White Noise' Trailer: Adam Driver & Greta Gerwig Face The Apocalypse For Noah Baumbach

Now that we are in August, with fall on the immediate horizon, we know what that means: It’s time for prestige pictures from renowned and acclaimed directors to take hold of the moviegoing consciousness. With the honor of having its world premiere as the opening film for the Venice International Film Festival on August 31st, as well as opening the New York Film Festival on September 30th, the new film from writer-director Noah Baumbach can safely fill that bill. Entitled “White Noise,” the first trailer for the film is now available to view online, giving us a glimpse into the newest cinematic concoction of Baumbach.

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“White Noise” is an adaptation of the postmodern 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. Also worth noting, it is the first film from Noah Baumbach to be an adaptation. What is then even more intriguing to think about is the genres that “White Noise” intends to touch on. According to the synopsis for the film featured on the New York Film Festival site, not only will viewers weigh with the film’s protagonist being a professor of “Hitler studies” (Played by Adam Driver, of course), “White Noise” will be a dark comedy and potentially something “horrifying.”

Here’s the official logline:

At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world. Based on the book by Don DeLillo. 

Personally speaking, Noah Baumbach dipping his toe into horror in any capacity is enough to drum up excitement, much less the film also offering the opportunity to see him work with the aforementioned Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig again. However much the horror genre seeps into Baumbach’s consistent intrigue with family dynamics and awkward people, it should be a unique specimen of a film.

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Starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Lars Eidinger, Andre Benjamin, Jodie Turner-Smith, “White Noise” will make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Following that, the film will release on Netflix later this year at an unannounced date. Watch the new trailer below.