BRIGHTBURN (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Elizabeth Banks (Slither), David Denman (Logan Lucky), Jackson A. Dunn (Avengers: Endgame), Matt Jones (Cooties), Meredith Hagner (Ingrid Goes West), Steve Agee (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), Becky Wahlstrom (The Strip), Stephen Blackehart (Rush Hour), Gregory Alan Williams (Remember The Titans), Jennifer Holland (Level 26: Dark Revelations), Elizabeth Becka (War Room), Christian Finlayson (Steel Country), Terence Rosemore (Triple 9), Emmie Hunter (Forever My Girl), Anne Humphrey (The Divergent Series: Allegiant)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

David Yarovesky (The Hive), director; Brian Gunn (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) and Mark Gunn (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island), writers; James Gunn (The Belko Experiment) and Kenneth Huang (A Children’s Story), producers; Tim Williams (I’m Not Ashamed), composer; Michael Dallatorre (Heartland), cinematographer; Andrew S. Eisen (The House With A Clock In Its Walls) and Peter Gvozdas (The Purge), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

From out of the sky comes a ship carrying an infant boy, and local Kansas couple Tori (Banks) and Kyle Breyer (Denman) decide to raise him as their own when they find him. The boy, named Brandon (Dunn), soon grows into a bright, talented and extraordinarily gifted youth – however, when he reaches puberty, a mysterious darkness begins to take hold of him, and his adoptive parents are left helpless as they witness their son turn into a twisted, vicious and unstoppable predator…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Producer James Gunn is behind this much darker take on the classic Superman origin, which plays on the criticisms of the hero’s unsympathetic and even psychotic plight in 2013’s Man of Steel.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 21ST JUNE 2019

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