After launching his career with the Step Up series, profiling Justin Bieber, and giving some life to the G.I. Joe franchise, director Jon M. Chu‘s latest film finds him adapting a Hasbro animated TV show. Jem and the Holograms, arriving this fall, follows a group of girls who rise to stardom thanks to their music and style, and today the first trailer has landed.
Produced by Blumhouse Productions, we suppose we shouldn’t be surprised at the relatively cheap aesthetic and we’ll have to wonder how fans of the original show will enjoy the more serious, social media-heavy take. Starring Aubrey Peeples, Stefanie Scott, Aurora Perrineau, Hayley Kiyoko, Ryan Guzman, Molly Ringwald and Juliette Lewis, check out the trailer and poster below.
As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden. In Universal Pictures’ Jem and the Holograms, four aspiring musicians will take the world by storm when they see that the key to creating your own destiny lies in finding your own voice.
Jem and the Holograms opens on October 23rd.