Keanu Reeves and Jonah Hill concoct an unusual strategy for dealing with a blackmail threat in the trailer for the dark comedy film Outcome.
Hill directed, co-wrote and stars in the movie that Apple TV releases April 10. Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer, Susan Lucci, Laverne Cox, David Spade, Martin Scorsese, Atsuko Okatsuka, Roy Wood Jr., Welker White, Kaia Gerber and Ivy Wolk round out the cast.
Outcome centers on Reef Hawk (Reeves), a recently sober movie star who agrees to apologize to those he has wronged. Reef hopes that this will help him discover the identity of the blackmailer who is threatening to release an unflattering video of the actor.
In discussing his plan to return to the public eye, Reeves says in the trailer, “I won’t say that I was hiding a heroin addiction from the public and that my best friends and my insane lawyer helped me cover it up for years.”
Later, Reef’s lawyer, Ira (Hill), tells him, “I need to know everyone who hates you. You need to go and apologize to them, and without them realizing it, feel out if they’re the ones behind the video.”
Hill helmed the feature from a script he co-wrote with Ezra Woods. Hill produces alongside Matt Dines and Alison Goodwin.
During the studio’s press day last month, Hill described Outcome as “a metaphor for what we all go through, living on social media. Social media has made us obsessed [with] what people we don’t know think of us, instead of caring about what the people who know us best think of us.”