After the response wasn’t strong for the first theatrical trailer for One Day, Focus Features has now debuted another with a little more snap. Lone Scherfig (the Oscar-nominated director behind Carey Mulligan‘s breakout drama An Education) is taking on the David Nicholls‘ bestselling novel for her next feature. Adapted by the writer himself, Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess lead the film alongside Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott, Romola Garai and Rafe Spall. I was on board from the beginning, but this trailer is definitely an improvement. It won’t have the Oscar prospects of her last film, but it looks to be a nice, well-handled romance. Check it out below via Collider and head over to their site for new images.
Twenty years…two people. Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of “An Education,” Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture), the motion picture “One Day” is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his beloved bestselling novel One Day. After one day together – July 15th, 1988, their college graduation – Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess of “Across the Universe”) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along. As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed, they come to terms with the nature of love and life itself.
One Day hits theaters August 19th.
What do you think of this new trailer? Is it an improvement?