{"id":680752,"date":"2026-07-08T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680752\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:18:14","slug":"trailer-dave-franco-oshea-jackson-jr-in-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/680752\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer: Dave Franco, O&#8217;Shea Jackson Jr. In &#8220;Idiots&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trailer-dave-franco-oshea-jackson-jr-in-idiots.jpg\" data-caption=\"IFC\"><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\/07\/trailer-dave-franco-oshea-jackson-jr-in-idiots.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"trailer-dave-franco-oshea-jackson-jr-in-idiots\"\/><\/a>IFC<\/p>\n<p>IFC Releasing has premiered the trailer for \u201cIdiots,\u201d a new feature comedy from \u201cGreen Room\u201d actor turned \u201cThe Toxic Avenger\u201d director Macon Blair.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Franco and O\u2019Shea Jackson Jr. star as two unqualified morons who\u2019ve hit rock bottom and are hired to transfer a wealthy but troubled teenager (Mason Thames) to rehab for a shady transport service. <\/p>\n<p>What should be a simple, straightforward job immediately spirals out of control. Kiernan Shipka, Nicholas Braun, and Peter Dinklage also star in the film.<\/p>\n<p>Shot in Georgia last year, the film was an official selection of both the Sundance Film Festival and the SXSW Film Festival.  Blair says in a statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big spectacle of the movie is the ensemble: it\u2019s a pile-up of dynamite actors going full tilt through broad slapstick comedy, chase movie shenanigans, nasty human darkness and ultimately a hopeful friendship story\/. From the on-fire leads to the scene-stealing cameos, it was a plain delight to watch every single one of these folks work at being Idiots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luke Wilson and Tracy Morgan were previously attached to an earlier incarnation of the project almost a decade ago when it went by the name \u201cThe S\u2013theads\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 98-minute \u201cIdiots\u201d opens exclusively in cinemas on August 28th.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/the-live-action-moana-reviews-are-in\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Live-Action \u201cMoana\u201d Reviews Are In<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/the-2026-emmy-nominations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 2026 Emmy Nominations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IFC IFC Releasing has premiered the trailer for \u201cIdiots,\u201d a new feature comedy from \u201cGreen Room\u201d actor turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-680752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680752","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=680752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}