The first trailer for the highly anticipated movie Babylon, starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, dropped on Tuesday.
Robbie, 32, plays Nellie LaRoy, a coked-up starlet from the early days of Hollywood, who is seen surrounded by mounds of white powder at the start of the trailer.
The clip opens with Robbie looking manic and sniffing as she speaks to Diego Calva, who plays Manny Torres.
Margot Robbie plays Nellie LaRoy, a coked-up starlet from the early days of Hollywood, in the highly anticipated movie Babylon
She is surrounded by mounds of white powder at the start of the trailer, which dropped on Tuesday
‘If you could go anywhere in the whole world, where would you go?’ she asks him.
‘I always wanted to be a part of something bigger,’ Calva replies.
Pitt plays Jack Conrad, who is determined to make movies bigger and better in Hollywood.
His style is outrageous as he downs martinis until the early hours with burlesque dancers and even elephants, but it’s clear his heart is in the business.
Also in the film is Jean Smart as a wise industry veteran, as well as Aussie actresses Samara Weaving and Phoebe Tonkin.
Robbie’s character gets high and details how she wants to rise to power while also having fun
She is a little too eager to ride the wave of insanity in the den of iniquity that is Hollywood
The film from Oscar winner Damien Chazelle is set to be released on Christmas Day.
The trailer then cuts to 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 while living in the free-wheeling 1920s.
Brad Pitt plays Jack Conrad, who is determined to make movies bigger and better in Hollywood
His style is outrageous as he downs martinis until the early hours with burlesque dancers and even elephants at a party, but it’s clear his heart is in the business
Then the focus goes to Robbie’s character again as she gets high on cocaine and details how she wants to rise to power while also having fun.
The star 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 for attention at a party.
Pitt is seen again as the man pulling the strings as he makes it clear he’s the one who gives actors respectability in Hollywood.
At one point she even offers to fight a live snake for attention at a party
The film is set in the roaring 1920s in Hollywood when talkie films were replacing silent ones
A tense scene takes place between Pitt and Smart as he tells her that what he does ‘means something’.
She then retorts by letting him know Hollywood is much bigger than he is, hinting his power will fade.
The clip encapsulates the excess and flamboyance of the 1920s before the big stock market crash of October 1929.
In one scene, he holds a gun while drunk
Pitt does a little dance on his balcony before he falls over the railing
A tense scene takes place between Pitt and Jean Smart as he tells her that what he does ‘means something’. She then retorts by letting him know Hollywood is much bigger than he is, hinting his power will fade
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.
The period piece is written and directed by Oscar winner Damien Chazelle, who earned the Best Director Oscar for La La Land.
The period piece is written and directed by Oscar winner Damien Chazelle, who earned the Best Director Oscar 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 on Tuesday.
During a question and answer session, Chazelle revealed his thoughts about the project, which he says is one of his most ambitious to date.
Pitt looks like he is the life of the party in posters for the film Babylon
Robbie had on a red dress that exposed her tummy for the Babylon poster
‘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 Tinseltown.
Hacks star Jean Smart is also on one of the poster
Chazelle 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.’
Robbie and Pitt worked together on the comedy/drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Leonardo Di Caprio. The film garnered a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Pitt.
Diego Calva is also seen on the Babylon poster
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