Are Celine Song and her husband just gonna take turns dropping a love-triangle movie every other year? Because that works for us, honestly. Song, the mind behind 2023’s Past Lives who is married to Justin Kuritzkes, writer of the screenplay for 2024’s Challengers, has a new movie in theaters as the writer-director of A24’s Materialists. Dakota Johnson leads the cast as an ambitious New York City matchmaker who seems torn between (who could’ve guessed!) two potential matches for herself. Are you team Chris Evans or team Pedro Pascal? Maybe the new trailer will help you decide.
What happens in the trailer?
The trailer introduces an original Japanese Breakfast song … and Johnson as Lucy, a matchmaker who is willing to stop random guys on the street to see if they’re potential customers. Some of her clients have very specific criteria (“nothing over 20 BMI,” “more grown” but still young), while others are a little more open (“I’m trying to settle”). A friend and a celebratory cake inform us that Lucy is responsible for nine marriages — which is shy of Love Is Blind’s record but still pretty good. According to an official synopsis, she’s “torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.” It’s pretty easy to tell who’s who: Pascal’s character meets her at an event where Evans’s character is a waiter who already knows her drink order. One man sleeps with her in a $12 million apartment, while the other man lives with roommates but has a rich past with her. She’s entertaining both connections, but her overall stance on relationships seems to be getting more complicated. “I don’t think I’m very good at my job, anymore,” she says at one point, later musing that people get married “because they’re lonely, and because they’re hopeful.”
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Who else is in the cast of Materialists?
Johnson, Evans, and Pascal have our main love triangle covered. Variety was the first to report that Zoë Winters, Dasha Nekrasova, Marin Ireland, and Louisa Jacobson would also join the trio in the cast.
When is Materialists coming out?
Save the date: Materialists is set to materialize in theaters on June 13, 2025.
