Celine Song’s follow up to her celebrated 2023 hitPast Liveshas just dropped its first trailer and it looks like being a bit of a heartbreaker, actually.Materialists, a new A24 film, starsDakota Johnsonas Lucy, a successful matchmaker in New York City who finds herself caught up in an unexpected love triangle with a wealthy new client, played byPedro Pascal, and her ex, played by a super vulnerableChris Evans. That’s a pretty smokin' trio if you ask us. The trailer has a few laughs but it also has quite a melancholic feel to it, and this one could end up being just as memorable.
From the introspective drama ofPast Lives,Materialistslooks like beingsomething a bit frothier and mainstream, but perhaps just as effective. It’s been described as blending films likeHitchwith the works ofJames L. Brooksand honestly, we can see where that comparison would come from. The supporting cast includesZoë Winters,Marin Ireland,Dasha Nekrasova,Louisa Jacobson, andSawyer Spielberg.
What Else Are The Stars of ‘Materialists’ Making Soon?
2025 will be a very busy year for some of the cast, particularly Pascal. Following after the release ofMaterialistsis going to be the biggest movie of his career to date,The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which will open in July. Pascal plays Reed Richards, a role which he will also be playing inAvengers: Doomsday(2026) andAvengers: Secret Wars(2027). He will also star in A24’s contemporary Western black comedyEddingtonalongsideJoaquin PhoenixandEmma Stone, scheduled for release later in 2025. Next month, he returns toTV screens as Joelin the second season of HBO’s smash hit video game adaptation,The Last of Us.
Evans, meanwhile, will appear inEthan Coen’s upcoming detective comedy,Honey Don’t!later this year alongsideMargaret QualleyandAubrey Plazain what is the latest of Coen andTricia Cooke’s"lesbian B-movie trilogy" following last year’sDrive-Away Dolls. He’s also currently filmingSacrifice, an action-comedy alongsideAnya Taylor-Joy,which sees him as a movie star kidnapped by Taylor-Joy’s religious zealot who thinks sacrificing him will save the world. We’ve all met people like that. Lastly, Johnson is currently filming two movies:Splitsville, a comedy directed and starringMichael Angelo CovinoandAdria Arjona, andVerity, a newColleen Hooveradaptation.
Materialistsopens on July 06, 2025. Stay tuned to Collider for all the latest updates on your favorite movies.
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