Captain America becomes Furiosa\u2019s hostage in this trailer for Sacrifice, the English-language debut of French director Romain Gavras (Athena). But we kid: The film stars Chris Evans as faded movie star Mike Tyler, whose penance tour after a viral meltdown takes him to a swanky island eco-gala hosted by billionaire Ben Bracken (Vincent Cassel, who also starred in Gavras\u2019 2010 drama Our Day Will Come) and his wife, Gloria (Salma Hayek Pinault). Mike\u2019s path back to stardom\u2019s good graces won\u2019t come cheap, as his choice for cultural absolution has also been targeted by Anya Taylor-Joy\u2019s Joan, a radical eco-warrior who\u2019s convinced an imminent \u201cextinction event\u201d can only be stopped by fulfilling a prophecy. Mike soon discovers, along with his fellow hostages (Cassel and This Is Going To Hurt\u2018s Ambika Mod), that the prophecy involves ritual sacrifice to an active volcano.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat begins as a glamorous display of virtue and influence quickly spirals into a hostage crisis,\u201d the logline reads, \u201cforcing everyone involved to confront questions of belief, identity, and what they are willing to sacrifice.\u201d As for \u201cbelief,\u201d we see Joan and Mike compare theirs in this trailer\u2014his, the power of stories to change the world; hers, the cleansing power of death, which is basically the same thing. After the film\u2019s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, Natalia Keogan, in a review for The A.V. Club<\/a>, wrote, \u201cVoid of righteousness, indignation, or even straight-up nihilism, Sacrifice won\u2019t cause even the most malleable of worldviews to waver.\u201d In other words, Netflix\u2019s ideal festival purchase.<\/p>\n Sacrifice, which also stars John Malkovich, Yung Lean, and Charli xcx, hits Netflix on October 16. You can watch the trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain America becomes Furiosa\u2019s hostage in this trailer for Sacrifice, the English-language debut of French director Romain Gavras…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773617","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\/773617","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=773617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}