‘Equals’ Teaser Trailer: Kristen Stewart And Nicholas Hoult Strike Up A Doomed Dystopian Romance
Kristen Stewartknows a thing or two about forbidden love. She is, after all, still best known for starring in a series of films about a girl and her vampire boyfriend. AndNicholas Hoult’s done the whole dystopia thing — he’s coming out of the toxic wasteland ofMad Max: Fury Road. Now the two of them are coming together forEquals,Drake Doremus' sci-fi love story about two lonely souls who find love in a hopeless place.
Said place is a sterile future where all emotion has been outlawed and eradicated. Or at least that’s what the powers that be are striving for. The truth is that there’s a weird disease going around referred to as “Switched On Syndrome,” which sparks feeling in its victims. Hoult and Stewart play two of the afflicted, who strike up a forbidden passion. Distributor A24 has just dropped the firstEqualsteaser trailer, and you may watch it after the jump.
Complicated love stories are kind of Doremus' thing. His long-distance romanceLike Crazymade him a film festival darling, and he followed that up withBreathe In, about a married man and a young woman who fall into an affair. The sci-fi angle is a change of pace for him, but otherwiseEqualsseems like it’s right up his alley.
The premise doesn’t really look like anything new. It’s dystopianRomeo and Juliet, with shades ofEquilibrium,Gattaca,The Island, and about half a dozen forgettable YA adaptations. But you don’t go into a film like this to be surprised, really. You go into it so you can fall in love with the central couple as they’re falling in love with each other. In that regard, the fact that Doremus has cast Stewart and Hoult should be a big help.
Equalsdoesn’t have a release date yet, but look for it to hit sometime this summer.Guy Pearce,Jacki Weaver,Bel Powley,Kate Lyn Sheil, andClaudia Kimalso star.
