Cate Blanchett and a big brain feature in Rumours’ first trailer

Political horror comedy Rumours is coming this October and a weird first trailer has been released to herald the film’s arrival.

Here’s one of the more bizarre teaser trailers we’ve seen in a while, kicking off the promotional campaign for Rumours, an upcoming political horror comedy that is set to release in October. That places the film’s launch just before the US presidential elections although whether the film is going to satirise that particular political showdown, is as yet unclear.

In fact, the whole teaser trailer is rather unclear. It’s a series non-sequiturs, the unconnected and random nature of it giving the whole thing a rather random, surreal quality. At one point a huge brain appears. What we do know is this: Rumours focuses on ‘the leaders of the seven nations comprising the G7, who meet for their annual summit but get lost in the woods and must still draft a statement addressing a worldwide crisis.’

The film is helmed by Guy Maddin and features Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, Roy Dupuis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira, Denis Ménochet, Rolando Ravello and Zlatko Buric. Bleecker Street have backed the project and as of yet, we’re not quite sure what the release strategy is in the UK, although we do know that Protagonist Pictures are handling distribution. There’s no official release date on the company’s website but we have seen a potential December date floating around online so we might have to wait a little longer than our US friends for this one. That’s not yet confirmed though.

Here’s the first trailer for Rumours below. It’s a fairly short teaser trailer but still gives you a pretty good taste of the project’s strange tone. When we hear more about UK release details for this one, we’ll let you know.