Yes, we’ve already received four variations of different trailers for Richard Ayoade‘s The Double, but when it’s one of the most promising offerings of 2014, we don’t mind giving it a little extra push. With the film, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska, currently set to screen at the end of March at New Directors/New Films before it lands in theaters on on VOD in May, Magnolia Pictures has now released the first U.S. trailer.
We said in our TIFF review, “as adapted by the helmer and Avi Korine, The Double brings Fyodor Dostoyevsky‘s novella to the big screen with a surefire confidence in its visual form and an eccentric comedy that should go a long way towards securing the IT Crowd star as a permanent, unique voice in contemporary cinema. There is a definite stylistic kinship to his first film, pairing it well with this one’s descent into a psychological conflict of identity: every waking second of Simon James’ (Eisenberg) entire existence shatters with the introduction of a confidently superior doppelgänger named James Simon.”
Check out the new trailer and poster below for the film also starring Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor and a number of surprise guests:
Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon’s exact physical double and his opposite – confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon’s horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.
The Double hits VOD and theaters in the U.S. on May 9th and in the U.K. on April 4th.