{"id":292889,"date":"2026-02-20T05:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292889\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:16:13","slug":"bob-odenkirk-is-back-in-action-in-new-trailer-for-ben-wheatleys-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/292889\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Odenkirk is back in action in new trailer for Ben Wheatley&#8217;s Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/?attachment_id=1959994\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959994 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\" \" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1959994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Normal-4-600x349.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"349\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnolia Pictures &amp; Magnet Releasing have shared a new trailer for the upcoming action thriller Normal\u00a0ahead of its theatrical release this April.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Ben Wheatley (Meg 2: The Trench) and written by Derek Kolstad (John Wick), the film stars Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul, Nobody) as Ulysses, a man who accepts a job as the Sheriff of the quaint town of Normal hoping for a slower work pace, until he inadvertently exposes a dark secret during a botched bank robbery. Check out the trailer below\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/?attachment_id=1959992\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959992 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\" \" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1959992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Normal-1-600x889.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"889\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/?attachment_id=1959987\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959987 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1959987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Normal-3-600x400.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/?attachment_id=1959988\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959988 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1959988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Normal-5-600x338.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/?attachment_id=1959989\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959989 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1959989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Normal-6-600x338.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/?attachment_id=1959990\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959990 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1959990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Normal-7-600x400.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/?attachment_id=1959991\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959991 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1959991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7-600x400.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickeringmyth.com\/?attachment_id=1959993\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959993 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img title=\" \" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1959993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Normal-2-600x400.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><br \/>For Sheriff Ulysses (Odenkirk), his provisional posting to the quaint Midwestern American town of Normal was meant to be a welcome respite from both his marital woes and recent moral injuries in the line of duty. But when a botched bank robbery interrupts the municipality\u2019s tranquil pace, a dark secret is inadvertently exposed, and Ulysses soon discovers that the town is anything but its namesake.<\/p>\n<p>Normal arrives in cinemas on April 17th 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magnolia Pictures &amp; Magnet Releasing have shared a new trailer for the upcoming action thriller Normal\u00a0ahead of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-292889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}