Weekly trailer roundup 31/10

Ash Walker • 31 Oct 2024 News

The biggest, most exciting new movie and TV trailers this week.

We live in a golden age of entertainment, with great new movies and TV shows being released all the time. There’s so much, in fact, that it can be hard to keep track of what’s coming, and what to get excited about.

With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of the biggest and best trailers released this week. And there’s a few bangers this week, featuring everything from superheroes to spies to seductive students.

Movies

Queer

Credit: Queer | Official Trailer HD (A24, YouTube)

In cinemas 13th December

Prolific filmmaker Luca Guadagnino - whose last film, the critically acclaimed Challengers, was released only six months ago - returns with yet another sweaty, complicated relationship drama.

Based on the novel by William S. Burroughs, Queer tells the story of an outcast American expat (Daniel Craig, Casino Royale) in Mexico City who becomes infatuated with a younger man (Drew Starkey, Love, Simon).

With a gorgeously realised period setting, fantastical visuals and an apparently career-best performance from Craig, this promises to be an essential watch. Plus, with all the buzz it gathered during festival season, it’ll probably bag a few nods at next year’s Oscars too.

Also stars Lesley Manville (Mrs Harris Goes to Paris) and Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City).

September 5

Credit: SEPTEMBER 5 | Official Trailer (Paramount Pictures, YouTube)

In cinemas 13th December

This tense thriller recounts the infamous 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis, from the point of view of the ABC Sports news crew who captured the whole thing on camera - a live broadcast that was watched by an estimated one billion people at the time.

As events escalate, the news crew must grapple with their own morals and ambitions. Do they have an obligation to keep filming, or are they putting the hostages at risk? It’s heavy stuff, filmed like a breakneck political thriller.

Stars Peter Saarsgard (Dopesick) and John Magaro (The Big Short).

TV Shows

The Agency

Credit: The Agency | Official Trailer (SHOWTIME, YouTube)

Season 1 on Paramount+ 29th November

A knotty espionage thriller about a deep cover CIA agent (Michael Fassbender, The Killer), who is suddenly called back to the Station after years of living under a false identity. But when the woman he left behind resurfaces, things become very complicated, very quickly.

The show looks to explore some complex psychological issues and, judging by all the shady, sidelong glances in this trailer, will have plenty of dark secrets and shock betrayals. Plus it’s packing an absolutely stacked cast, including Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim), Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant) and Richard Gere (Chicago).

Black Doves

Credit: Black Doves | Official Trailer (Netflix, YouTube)

Season 1 on Netflix 5th December

Another spy thriller, this time from our side of the Pond! A seemingly normal family woman (Keira Knightly, The Imitation Game) begins an affair that unravels her assumed identity and puts her in the crosshairs of the London underworld.

Her former handlers assign an old friend (Ben Whishaw, Skyfall) to keep her safe, and the two of them set out to discover who’s out to get her. Also stars Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley).

Cruel Intentions

Credit: Cruel Intentions - Official Trailer (Prime Video, Youtube)

Season 1 on Prime Video 21st November

A remake of the ‘90s cult classic, itself a modern-day retelling of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, this tells the same old story of rich, manipulative students at an Ivy League university.

While it looks to be weaving in some more current concerns, like toxic fraternity hazing, it remains to be seen if this new version will do enough to be as good - or as fun - as its predecessor.

Marvel Studios - Look Ahead

Credit: Marvel Studios | Look Ahead (Marvel Entertainment, YouTube)

Various shows coming to Disney+ in 2024 and 2025

This is, admittedly, more of a sizzle reel for upcoming TV shows than an actual trailer… but since it contains our first fleeting glimpses of the hotly-anticipated Daredevil: Born Again, we had to include it this week.

Featuring clips from incoming live-action entries Ironheart and Wonder Man - plus this year’s blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine - and animated shows like Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Marvel Zombies, Eyes of Wakanda and What If…? Season 3, it’s absolutely jam-packed full of superheroic goodness.

But really the main draw here is the return of Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox, Stardust) and Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio, Jurassic World), finally reunited after the epic final season of Netflix’s Daredevil series. 2025 can’t come soon enough!