After Gus Vant Sant attempted (and by many accounts, including ours, failed) to take a dramatic look at the Aokigahara “Suicide” Forest in this year’s Cannes competition drama The Sea of Trees, perhaps a more genre-heavy approach will work better. Debuting early next year is The Forest, which finds Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games star Natalie Dormer in a lead role.
Directed by Jason Zada based on an idea by the prolific David S. Goyer, it follows her as a young American woman in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared within the depths of the forest. The first trailer has now landed, which some has effective bits of photography, but considering its January 8th release date, it’ll take quite a surprise to buck the trend of the first wide release out of the yearly gate. Check out the trailer below.
A supernatural thriller set in the legendary Aokigahara Forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan. A young American woman, Sara (Natalie Dormer of “Game of Thrones” and “The Hunger Games”), goes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared. Despite everyone’s warnings to “stay on the path,” Sara enters the forest determined to discover the truth about her sister’s fate – only to be confronted by the angry and tormented souls of the dead that prey on anyone who wanders into the forest.
The Forest opens on January 8th, 2016.