{"id":383358,"date":"2026-04-17T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383358\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:32:08","slug":"whalefall-trailer-puts-austin-abrams-in-belly-of-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383358\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Whalefall&#8217; Trailer Puts Austin Abrams in Belly of the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJust how do you make a movie that takes place inside of a whale? Theater owners got a bit of an answer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/cinemacon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cinemacon_1\" data-tag=\"cinemacon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CinemaCon<\/a>, when 20th Century showed off the first trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/whalefall\/\" id=\"auto-tag_whalefall_1\" data-tag=\"whalefall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whalefall<\/a>, filmmaker Brian Duffield\u2019s adaptation of the Daniel Klaus novel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/austin-abrams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_austin-abrams_1\" data-tag=\"austin-abrams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Abrams<\/a> leads the movie, which tells of a scuba diver who is swallowed alive by a sperm whale and attempts to escape all while contemplating his relationship with his late father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the footage, Abrams is on a diving expedition when he encounters a squid, and menacing music plays as that squid is followed by a massive whale. He\u2019s pinned against the rocks without a way to escape, and when he does try to swim free and hide among the kelp, the whale continues to circle in the darkness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe whale eventually goes in for the attack, with Abrams holding on for dear life to his teeth and kicking against the animal\u2019s tongue before he is eventually swallowed whole, screaming the whole way down. Bubbles fly out of his mask and he descends into the whale\u2019s body as the trailer cuts to black.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJosh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue and John\u00a0Ortiz also star in Whalefall, which hails from Imagine Entertainment and is produced by the company\u2019s Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody and Allan Mandelbaum. It\u2019s based on based on the\u00a02023 novel of the same name\u00a0by Kraus, who co-wrote the script with director Duffield. Whalefall swims into theaters on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter a role on Euphoria, Abrams broke out with Zach Cregger\u2019s Weapons, and was front and center earlier in the week at CinemaCon, when Sony unveiled the trailer for Cregger\u2019s Resident Evil movie, which stars Abrams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just how do you make a movie that takes place inside of a whale? Theater owners got a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[199039,173642,197133,156,409,111,139,69,199040],"class_list":{"0":"post-383358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-austin-abrams","9":"tag-cinemacon","10":"tag-cinemacon-2026","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-whalefall"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383358","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=383358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}