{"id":479394,"date":"2026-06-02T15:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479394\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:40:31","slug":"onslaught-trailer-adam-wingard-directs-adria-arjona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/479394\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Onslaught’ Trailer: Adam Wingard Directs Adria Arjona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Wingard<\/a>\u2018s career has taken plenty of twists and turns over the past two decades, but he always seems to adapt to the latest landscape of genre filmmaking. He steadily climbed the ladder from his microbudget debut features to mainstream breakouts like \u201cYou\u2019re Next\u201d and \u201cThe Guest\u201d before tackling some of the biggest studio I.P. in Hollywood (with varying results) on projects like \u201cBlair Witch,\u201d \u201cDeath Note,\u201d and \u201cGodzilla vs. Kong.\u201d<\/a> Now, at a moment when originality appears to reign supreme, he\u2019s teaming up with A24 for an intriguing new idea.<\/p>\n

Wingard reunites with his frequent co-writer Simon Barrett on \u201cOnslaught<\/a>,\u201d an original thriller about a single mother living in a trailer park who is forced to battle a mysterious threat that emerges from a neighboring military base. The film<\/a> boasts an impressive ensemble of stars, including Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Alex Pereira, Michael Biehn, Drew Starkey, Rebecca Hall, Eric Wareheim, Maurice Greene, and Reginald VelJohnson.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a> \"A<\/a> <\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly for a film built around such a mysterious premise, plot details for \u201cOnslaught\u201d have been kept under wraps until now. A brief official synopsis reads: \u201cWhen a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a recent interview with IndieWire<\/a> promoting his role in Netflix\u2019s \u201cThe Terror,\u201d Stevens teased the project, praising Wingard\u2019s creativity and Arjona\u2019s blistering performance in the lead role.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, it\u2019s Adam Wingard back on form, returning to a batshit action-thriller in the desert, which is where I first met him and fell in love with him,\u201d he said. \u201cThis time, Adria Arjona, who is\u00a0incredible, is our lead and has done an amazing job. People are going to really enjoy what she\u2019s brought to that movie, I won\u2019t say any more than that. But my contribution is, typically, bonkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he\u2019s currently back in the indie space, Wingard is not ruling out a return to the Monsterverse. He previously told IndieWire<\/a> that he\u2019s hoping to direct a third movie with Godzilla and King Kong that would follow up on the events of \u201cThe New Empire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what I would like to do with the next one,\u201d he said in 2024. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely more ground to cover.\u201d<\/p>\n

An A24 release, \u201cOnslaught\u201d opens in theaters on Friday, September 4. Watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Wingard\u2018s career has taken plenty of twists and turns over the past two decades, but he always…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[145180,93,1043,61,60,270,145181,12541],"class_list":["post-479394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-adam-wingard","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-onslaught","tag-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}