{"id":607858,"date":"2026-04-15T05:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T05:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:58:09","slug":"j-j-abrams-on-glen-powell-jenna-ortega-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/607858\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. Abrams on Glen Powell, Jenna Ortega Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLas Vegas got a taste of The Great Beyond<\/a> on Tuesday, as J.J. Abrams<\/a> gave a look at his latest project during Warner Bros.\u2019 CinemaCon<\/a> presentation.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe star-studded film<\/a> features Glen Powell<\/a>, Jenna Ortega<\/a>, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Merritt Wever and Samuel L. Jackson<\/a>, and marks Abrams\u2019 first directorial effort since 2019\u2019s\u00a0Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. It\u2019s set for a theatrical release on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe plot had been kept tightly under wraps, and the footage does not reveal much about the story. The trailer opens with an H.G. wells quote and shows Powell and Ortega tentatively interacting.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPeople like us, I think we\u2019re looking for something \u2014 something pure, something we cant find here,\u201d Ortega says. The trailer\u2019s scenes show flickering lights, a glowing substance and the ground opening up. It ends with Powell on the run.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI felt like I needed to get back to telling original stories,\u201d Abrams said from the stage. \u201cI wanted it to be big and something that generations, different people can all go to the theater to see. At the heart of the movie, it\u2019s about reconnecting with that sense of possibility and wonder that we had when we were kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAbrams praised his big-name cast and joked that he chose Powell as the lead because he wanted the character to be someone about whom viewers think, \u201cMaybe he peaked in high school.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Great Beyond also comes as Abrams enters a new phase<\/a> with his Bad Robot production company; earlier this month, it was revealed that Bad Robot would be scaling down operations<\/a> and reorganizing as it shuts down its Los Angeles office and moves to New York, where Abrams now resides. The company was founded in 1999 and has been behind TV hits including 2001\u2019s\u00a0Alias, 2004\u2019s\u00a0Lost, 2008\u2019s\u00a0Fringe, 2011\u2019s\u00a0Person of Interest\u00a0and 2016\u2019s\u00a0Westworld, and film successes including Abrams\u2019 Star Wars movies, multiple Mission: Impossible projects and 2009\u2019s\u00a0Star Trek\u00a0reboot.<\/p>\n

\n\tCinemaCon, the annual gathering of cinema owners and Hollywood studios, is hosted in Las Vegas by Cinema United, formerly known as the National Association of Theatre Owners. This year\u2019s edition runs April 13-16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Las Vegas got a taste of The Great Beyond on Tuesday, as J.J. Abrams gave a look at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,263202,294540,134,54452,247102,34832,344,286738,295670],"class_list":{"0":"post-607858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cinemacon","11":"tag-cinemacon-2026","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-glen-powell","14":"tag-j-j-abrams","15":"tag-jenna-ortega","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-samuel-l-jackson","18":"tag-the-great-beyond"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}