White Noise: Noah Baumbach’s new film gets teaser

The first teaser for Noah Baumbach’s latest, White Noise, has arrived…and it’s an intense one.

The trailer, which debuted today courtesy of Netflix, teases martial issues, impending dread and an “airborne toxic event.”

Official plot synopsis: “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.”

The cast of Noah Baumbach’s White Noise includes Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, André “3000” Benjamin, and Don Cheadle. Baumbach previously directed Driver in Marriage Story. He has also collaborated with Gerwig–his partner–on scripts for 2012’s Frances Ha and and 2015’s Mistress America, in addition to her co-starring in Greenberg, with a co-story by credit by Baumbach’s then-wife Jennifer Jason Leigh. If you’re looking for lighter, poppier, pinker fare than White Noise, Baumbach also co-wrote Gerwig’s Barbie, due out next year.

Noah Baumbach’s White Noise is based on Don DeLillo’s remarkable 1985 novel, which Time named one of the 100 greatest written between 1923 and 2005. This is the first time Baumbach has adapted from another source (excluding Barbie, if we’re counting Mattel dolls as sources).

White Noise will premiere at the Venice Film Festival later this month before heading to Netflix. The film is part of Baumbach’s exclusive deal with Netflix, which he signed last year. Noah Baumbach’s last two films, The Meyerowitz Stories and Marriage Story, both went to Netflix, with the latter earning six Oscar nominations.

No official release date has been set although it will hit Netflix sometime this year in time for awards season.

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