The first trailer for the highly anticipated movie Babylon was shared on Tuesday.
Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad, who is a mastermind behind making movies bigger and better in Hollywood. His style is outrageous as he downs martinis until the early morning with burlesque dancers and even elephants but it’s clear his heart is in the business.
Also in the film is Margot Robbie as a crazed, coked up starlet and Jean Smart as the wise veteran.
The film from Oscar-winner Damien Chazelle is set to open on Christmas Day on December 25, 2022.
The man: The first trailer for the highly anticipated movie Babylon was shared on Tuesday. Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad, who is a mastermind behind making movies bigger and better in Hollywood
Dashing but dangerous: His style is outrageous as he downs martinis until the early morning with burlesque dancers and even elephants inside a party. But it’s clear his heart is in the business as he loves the power
The trailer opens with Pitt looking dashingly handsome in a black tuxedo as he takes a martini off a tray.
He is clearly the big man in the room as he greets guests who are going wild on drink and drugs as they are living in the free-wheeling 1920s.
Then the focus goes to Robbie’s character Nellie LaRoy as she gets high on cocaine and details how she wants to rise to power while having fun.
The star is far from polished and she is a little too eager to ride the wave of insanity in the den of iniquity that is Hollywood. At one point she even offers to fight a live snake to garner attention at a party.
He has not slept yet: In one scene he holds a gun while drunk as he has on only a white tank top and trunks
A new Pitt: The star does a little dance on his balcony before he falls over the railing
She knows his time is up: A tense scene takes place between Pitt and Jean Smart as he tells her that what he does ‘means something.’ She then retorts with letting him know Hollywood is much bigger than he is, hinting his power will fade
Party people: Pitt looks like he is the life of the party in posters for the film Babylon. The film is set in the roaring 1920s during the transition from silent movies to talkies
Pitt is seen again as the man holding the strings as he makes it clear he was the one who gave actors respectability in Hollywood.
A tense scene takes place between Pitt and Smart as he tells her that what he does ‘means something.’
She then retorts with letting him know Hollywood is much bigger than he is, hinting his power will fade.
The beauty: Then the focus goes to Robbie’s character Nellie LaRoy as she gets high on cocaine and details how she wants to rise to power while having fun
She needs a rest: The star is far from polished and she is a little too eager to ride the wave of insanity in the den of iniquity that is Hollywood
Too wild: At one point she even offers to fight a live snake to garner attention at a party
The clip encapsulated the excess and flamboyance of the 1920s before the big stock market crash of October 1929.
The film is set in the roaring 1920s in Hollywood when talkie films were replacing silent ones.
It is ‘a tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, that traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood,’ according to Paramount Pictures which is releasing the project.
Ready to party in red: Robbie had on a red dress that exposed her tummy for the Babylon poster
The period piece is written and director by Oscar winner Damien Chazelle who earned the Best Director for La La Land.
The Academy Award winner previewed the trailer for the press at the Toronto International Film Festival Monday.
The teaser was released to the public Tuesday.
During a question and answer period, Damien revealed his thoughts about the project, which he says is one of his most ambitious to date.
‘I have always loved silent films. I am one of the disciples of the idea of pure cinema. The high points of the silent era are some of the high points of cinema, period.’
The film boasts an eclectic cast which includes Jean Smart, Li Jun Li, Jovan Adepo and Diego Calva and Olivia Wilde. ‘Babylon is the biggest number of roles I have juggled by far. The casting process took a long long time.’
The storyline takes place before the Hays Code was introduced in 1930, prohibiting profanity, nudity, drug use, sexual ‘perversion’, inter-racial relationships and much more on screen. According to the director, the story was inspired by the era and the off-screen antics going on in Tinsletown.
She is in the film too: Hacks star Jean Smart is also on one of the poster
He looks like he needs a glass of water: Diego Calva is also on front of the ad
She wore a jacket and hat for her look: And Li Jun Li also was seen
Damien explained, ‘It’s a mostly fictional film where almost all of the characters are inspired by composites of real-life people.
‘Filmmakers began arriving in California in the early 20th century to make their films, and the attitude at that time, according to the director was ‘a lot more wild west.’
‘They are building a city and industry from scratch and to do that thou need a certain kind of crazy person.
‘I don’t think it is surprising that the people that did that, did a lot of drugs and partied a lot.’
Margot and Brad worked together for the comedy/drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Leonardo Di Caprio.
The film garnered a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Brad. Babylon will hit theaters on December 25.