{"id":658771,"date":"2026-06-26T05:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658771\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:15:11","slug":"trailer-hawke-crowe-in-the-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658771\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer: Hawke, Crowe In &#8220;The Weight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/trailer-hawke-crowe-in-the-weight.jpg\" data-caption=\"Vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/trailer-hawke-crowe-in-the-weight.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"trailer-hawke-crowe-in-the-weight\"\/><\/a>Vertical<\/p>\n<p>Vertical has premiered the trailer for the Depression-era historical drama \u201cThe Weight\u201d starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe.<\/p>\n<p>Set in Oregon in 1933, the story follows Samuel Murphy (Hawke), a father torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp. His only apparent way out comes through Warden Clancy (Crowe), who tempts him with early release if he can smuggle gold through the dangerous wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>But the journey quickly turns perilous as betrayal spreads within the crew, forcing Murphy to question how far he\u2019ll go to see his child again.<\/p>\n<p>Julia Jones, Austin Amelio, Avi Nash, and Sam Hazeldine star while Matthew Chapman and Shelby Gaines pen the screenplay from a story by Matthew Booi, Leo Scherman, and Chapman.<\/p>\n<p>Padraic McKinley directs the project while Ryan Hawke, Simon Fields, Nathan Fields, Jonas Katzenstein, and Maximilian Leo produce.<br \/>Screening at Sundance to strong reviews, the film opens in cinemas on September 18th.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vertical Vertical has premiered the trailer for the Depression-era historical drama \u201cThe Weight\u201d starring Ethan Hawke and Russell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}