Coming back to directing for the first time since the last millennium, Warren Beatty recently secured a fitting world premiere for his romantic period piece drama Rules Don’t Apply at AFI Fest on November 10th. Led by Alden Ehrenreich, Lily Collins, Haley Bennett, Taissa Farmiga, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Martin Sheen, Annette Bening, Lousie Linton, and Oliver Platt, not to mention Beatty himself as Howard Hughes, a new trailer has now arrived.
Following a love story between an aspiring actress, her driver, and the eccentric billionaire they both work for, the drama looks to have some refreshing throwback charm. Set to arrive in theaters just before Thanksgiving, we’ll be curious to see if today’s audience is still receptive to Beatty’s old-school style, and hopefully that’ll be the case. Check out the new trailer below.
An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire (Warren Beatty), who they work for.
It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes’ #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes’ behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
Rules Don’t Apply hits theaters November 23rd.