Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’ Gets Trailer & Release Date

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Finally, after two-and-a-half years in production hell due to schedule management and Covid-19 preventative measures, the trailer for two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley has been released, and it looks gorgeous.

The plot for Nightmare Alley, which is based on a 1946 novel written by William Lindsay Gresham, is as follows: An ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

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The two lead roles will be taken on by Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett, while a plethora of fantastic actors join them in a supporting cast, including Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, Mary Steenburgen, Toni Collette, Tim Blake Nelson, and Richard Jenkins. The film is said to be a genre-blender of action, crime, and drama, with plenty of del Toro-style horror elements thrown in the mix.

Guillermo del Toro wrote the screenplay alongside Kim Morgan, and this is his first film since 2018’s The Shape of Water, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The trailer features beautiful cinematography by Dan Laustsen, who has previously worked with del Toro on Mimic, Crimson Peak, and The Shape of Water. Brandt Gordon handled the art direction, who also worked with del Toro on Crimson Peak, as well as 2019’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, a film that was presented, produced, and written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro.

This will be the second film adaptation of Nightmare Alley, the first being a 1947 Edmund Goulding film starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell.

Nightmare Alley will release in theaters everywhere on December 17th, 2021.

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