The Desperate Hour trailer: Naomi Watts active shooter thriller gets February release

Back in September, we heard that the thriller Lakewood, starring Naomi Watts, would be released in North America sometime in the first quarter of 2022. Now we know exactly when the movie is going to be released – it’s scheduled to reach theatres and VOD on February 25th – but it’s no longer called Lakewood. The movie’s new title is The Desperate Hour, and you can watch a trailer for it in the embed above.

Dead Calm (watch it HERE) director Phillip Noyce was at the helm of The Desperate Hour, working from a screenplay by Chris Sparling, who is best known for writing Buried (watch that HERE). Just like Buried, this film centers on one character making phone calls while in a terrifying situation. In this case, the story “deals with the sensitive subject of a high school lockdown, but from a mother’s point of view from a distance.” Watts’ character

Amy Carr is desperately racing against time to save her child Noah (Colton Gobbo) as authorities place her small town on lockdown due to an active shooter incident.

Amy is out for a morning jog when she’s notified about the shooting and much of the movie follows her as she runs through the woods, making calls in an effort to figure out exactly what happened and if her son is safe. There are sequences in the film where Watts had to continue running while performing ten pages of script.

The Desperate Hour was produced by Watts, Sparling, David Boies, Andrew Corkin, Alex Lalonde, Chris Parker, Zack Schiller, and Dylan Sellers. Devin Andre, Alex Dong, Theo James, Aaron Kaplan, and Tyler Zacharia served as executive producers. 

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