{"id":935677,"date":"2026-10-21T03:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935677\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T03:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:08:12","slug":"first-trailer-idris-elbas-above-the-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935677\/","title":{"rendered":"First Trailer: Idris Elba&#8217;s &#8220;Above the Below&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/first-trailer-idris-elba-above-the-below.jpg\" data-caption=\"Lionsgate\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/first-trailer-idris-elba-above-the-below.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"first-trailer-idris-elba-above-the-below\"\/><\/a>Lionsgate<\/p>\n<p>Lionsgate has premiered the first trailer for the astronaut aquatic survival thriller \u201cAbove the Below\u201d which both stars and is co-directed by Idris Elba.<\/p>\n<p>After three astronauts survive a disaster in space, their unscheduled crash-landing leaves them trapped in the crushing depths of the ocean with no contact with mission control and oxygen rapidly running out.<\/p>\n<p>In a race against time where every breath could be their last, the crew faces impossible choices, mounting odds, and new dangers in this pulse-pounding story about what we do when faced with the greatest stakes imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin co-star while Martin Owen co-directs the film from a script by Elizabeth Morris, Matthew Mitchell, and Vicki Sargent.<\/p>\n<p>Elba has indicated that the film was done as practically as possible \u2013 the cast learning to hold their breaths for several minutes at a time, along with a full size spacecraft being built and submerged for the shoot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbove the Below\u201d opens in cinemas on December 4th.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/legendary-seeking-to-acquire-lionsgate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legendary Seeking To Acquire Lionsgate?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/denzel-chris-mcquarrie-set-film-at-amazon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denzel, Chris McQuarrie Set Film At Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionsgate Lionsgate has premiered the first trailer for the astronaut aquatic survival thriller \u201cAbove the Below\u201d which both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-935677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935677","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=935677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}