{"id":627548,"date":"2026-09-17T14:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627548\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:14:23","slug":"animals-trailer-finds-ben-affleck-racing-to-save-his-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627548\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals Trailer Finds Ben Affleck Racing To Save His Son"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether in front of the camera, behind it, or \u2014 occasionally \u2014 both, Ben Affleck is a man who knows his way around a taut, tense thriller. From The Town<\/a> to Argo<\/a> and from Gone Girl<\/a> to The Accountant<\/a>, an Affleck under pressure is generally an Affleck well worth tuning in for. And now, having already starred in one banger Netflix thriller this year (The Rip<\/a> \u2014 go check it out!), the two-time Oscar winner is back directing and starring in what looks to be another: Animals. Check out the trailer below;<\/p>\n

Hoo boy! Well that was intense, wasn’t it? “In a crisis, we discover who we are, and what’s important to us,” says Ben Affleck’s mayoral candidate Mark Kimball at the start of this new trailer for Animals \u2014 and a crisis is exactly what awaits him here. Once eyed as a Matt Damon and Jennifer Garner starrer that was put on the back burner by the release of Spike Lee’s similarly themed Highest 2 Lowest<\/a>, Affleck’s latest finds his character, Mark, facing the unthinkable alongside wife Abigail (Kerry Washington) when their son is kidnapped, leaving the couple scrambling to raise the ransom money while being forced to confront their own deepest held secrets. As Gillian Anderson’s shadowy fixer Dayle bluntly spells out to Mark, “Your son’s life is at stake, so whatever secrets you’ve kept from one another need to come out now.” Political figures? Hiding things? Perish the thought!<\/p>\n

The official synopsis for Animals, whose cast also includes the likes of Steven Yeun, Luis Gerardo M\u00e9ndez, Adriana Paz, and Ray Fisher, reads: “When their son is kidnapped, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate and his wife find themselves drawn into a web of deception. As they scramble to raise the ransom payment, they\u2019re forced to make choices \u2013 and reveal secrets \u2013 that could tear their world apart.”<\/p>\n

Will Affleck and Washington save their kid? What secrets are the spouses hiding from one another? And what exactly is the dealio with Dayle? We’ll find out when Animals charges onto Netflix \u2014 and into selected cinemas \u2014 on October 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether in front of the camera, behind it, or \u2014 occasionally \u2014 both, Ben Affleck is a man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-627548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627548","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=627548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}