Trap (2024 film)

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Trap
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Written byM. Night Shyamalan
Produced by
  • Ashwin Rajan
  • Marc Bienstock
  • M. Night Shyamalan
Starring
Cinematography Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Edited byNoëmi Preiswerk
Music byHerdís Stefánsdóttir
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • August 2, 2024 (2024-08-02)
Running time
105 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Trap is an upcoming American psychological thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan. The film stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill. It is scheduled to be released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 2, 2024.

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Premise

Cooper, a serial killer dubbed "The Butcher", joins his teenage daughter at a concert for pop star Lady Raven, an event he realizes is a trap set by police to catch him. [2]

Cast

Production

M. Night Shyamalan's Trap was inspired in part by Operation Flagship, a sting operation in which disguised law enforcement arrested 101 wanted fugitives at a convention center, having invited them under the pretense of gifting them free NFL tickets. [4] In October 2022, Universal Pictures announced the then-untitled film. [5] In February 2023, the title was revealed as Shyamalan entered a first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures, marking his departure from Universal, which had distributed five consecutive films of his, starting with The Visit in 2015. [6] He produced with Marc Bienstock and Ashwin Rajan, [7] and pitched the film as setting The Silence of the Lambs (1991) at a Taylor Swift concert, in reference to her Eras Tour. [4]

Principal photography was scheduled to begin in Cincinnati, Ohio, in August 2023, where it would have received over $9 million in tax credits from the state to film there. [8] [9] Production relocated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was granted an interim agreement on September 18, 2023, to film during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. [10] [11] [12] Under the working title Good Grades, filming reportedly occurred from October 16 to December 8, 2023. [13] [10] The film's pop concert venue, known as "Tanaka Arena," was filmed inside FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, with Rogers Centre used as the venue's exterior. [14] The production obtained access to the 20,000-seat arena for two months because it was undergoing renovations. [15] Cora Kozaris was the choreographer for the songs performed on stage in the film. [16]

Shyamalan's daughter, Saleka, stars as singer Lady Raven, whose concert the characters attend. As her father was writing the script, she composed fourteen songs for the film, designed diegetically to match the action onscreen. [17] Saleka previously collaborated with her father by contributing to the soundtracks for the film Old (2021) and the series Servant . [16] [18] Shyamalan was inspired to incorporate musical elements by visiting Saleka on tour and Prince's musical film Purple Rain (1984). [19] [20] Saleka also noted that they grew up watching Bollywood cinema, in which music often plays a key role in the storytelling. She described Trap as a "Shyamalan American version of a Bollywood movie that is grounded and the songs make sense — not necessarily a musical, but completely music-centric." [16] Columbia Records will release the soundtrack album, "Lady Raven", which features appearances by Kid Cudi, Russ, and Amaarae. [16] [21] Trap was released the same year as The Watchers , the directorial debut of Saleka's sister, Ishana Night Shyamalan; a poster for The Watchers appears in the background of a scene in Trap. Saleka and Ishana Shyamalan worked on their respective films on their family's property in Pennsylvania; Saleka operated in a recording studio while Ishana mixed her film next door. [22] Herdís Stefánsdóttir composed the score independently from Saleka. [23]

Release

Trap is scheduled to be released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 2, 2024. It is the second film of Shyamalan's to be distributed by the studio after Lady in the Water (2006), [24] [25] and marks the filmmaker's departure from Universal Pictures, which distributed five consecutive films of his. Universal initially scheduled the film's release for April 5, 2024. [5] In 2023, Warner Bros. acquired and pushed the film to August 2, 2024. [26] In 2024, they postponed it to August 9, [27] and later brought it forward a week to August 2 again. [24]

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