A prequel to his acclaimed drama
The Father, writer/director Florian Zeller's The Son is adapted
from his stage play of the same name. The film stars Hugh Jackman as
a man whose life is disrupted by the arrival of his ex-wife (Laura Dern) and his now teenage son (Zen McGrath). Vanessa Kirby and
Hugh Quashie also star, with Anthony Hopkins reprising his
role from The Father.
The Son is in US cinemas from November 25th. A UK/ROI release
has yet to be announced.
Check out the new trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
A drama that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. THE SON centers on Peter (Hugh Jackman), whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth (Vanessa Kirby) is upended when his ex-wife Kate (Laura Dern) appears with their son Nicholas (Zen McGrath), who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing from school for months and is troubled, distant, and angry. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have liked his own father to have taken care of him while juggling work, his and Beth’s new son, and the offer of his dream position in Washington. However, by reaching for the past to correct its mistakes, he loses sight of how to hold onto the Nicholas in the present.