Robert Pattinson transforms into Dateline NBC’s Chris Hansen within the official first trailer for A24’s Primetime, in theaters later this yr.
The official first trailer for Primetime guarantees a dramatic, intense biographical thriller about one in every of tv’s most notorious packages, Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator, because it options scenes of tense undercover sting operations, behind-the-scenes manufacturing drama, and Pattinson as Hansen as he teeters between journalism and vigilantism.
It’s impressed casting, too. Pattinson, who’s already having one hell of a yr with The Odyssey, The Drama, and Dune: Half Three, captures Hansen’s advanced persona and sounds precisely like the long-lasting TV host as he delivers acquainted strains like, “You see how this seems, proper?”
Watch the Primetime trailer, beneath:
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In keeping with an official logline for the movie:
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen units out to make tv historical past.
Primetime seems to lean darker and extra psychological than a standard biopic. It additionally seems to incorporate the notorious and controversial four-day, multi-sting operation in Texas in 2006, when a suspect died by way of suicide inside his residence when Hansen’s digital camera crew and legislation enforcement approached him as a part of an investigation for To Catch a Predator.
The upcoming drama-thriller from A24 additionally stars Phoebe Bridgers, Merritt Wever, Anna Faris, and Skyler Gisondo.
To Catch a Predator aired on NBC between 2004 and 2007. The present adopted Hansen as he confronted, by way of numerous hidden-camera sting operations, grownup males accused of trying to fulfill minors for intercourse. The operations usually featured a decoy minor performed by an grownup.
Directed by Lance Oppenheim, Primetime releases in theaters on September 25, 2026.
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