Netflix has dropped the trailer of its upcoming Jake Gyllenhaal starrer thriller film ’The Guilty’ and this one will keep you on tenterhooks throughout! Based on Gustav Moller-directed Danish drama “Den Skyldige” that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, ‘The Guilty’ comes from ‘Training Day’ and ‘Equalizer’ director Antoine Fuqua.
The trailer begins with Joe Byler (Gyllenhaal), a troubled police detective demoted to 911 operator duty, going through his usual routine answering to people calling for help of all sorts. But one call that morning from Emily, a distressed woman in danger asking to save her life, changes a usual day into one hell of harrowing day full of revelations and reckonings.
While Emily cannot reveal having called 911, Joe asks her questions in a way that she could answer without letting the person next to him doubt on her. But Emily could not tell much other than the fact that what she is riding with a man who poses threat to her life in a white van while her child is at home.
With this little information Joe tries whatever he can to save her but the problem as we know is lack of enough details to track the woman. With fire weather in the city air support, that could have helped in spotting the vehicle, is also unavailable. He somehow reaches her child and assures her that her mother is gonna be okay.
Joe tries everything he can to get a more precise location of Emily but with nothing at hand the task is like finding a pin in a haystack. Although somehow the van is tracked and when the police approach the vehicle they are shocked with what they see and ask for immediate medical assistance.
The van might have had an accident as Joe asks Emily over one of the calls if the man with him has his seat belt on or not and then directs her to put hers on and pull the hand break. But looks like there’s much more than what meets the eye in the dramatic thriller film. What is it though?
Nic Pizzolatto (True Detective) has written ‘The Guilty’ starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Riley Keough, Byron Bowers, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, David Castañeda, Christina Vidal, Paul Dano, Ethan Hawke, Adrian Martinez, Bill Burr, Beau Knapp and Edi Patterson.
Jake Gylenhaal and Riva Marker for Nine Stories; Antoine Fuqua and Kat Samick for Fuqua Films; Scott Greenberg; Bold Film’s Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, David Litvak and Svetlana Metkina; and Amet Entertainment’s David Haring have produced ‘The Guilty’ for Netflix.
The film’s executive producers are Annie Marter, Gustav Moller, Lina Flint, Christian Mercuri, Jon Oakes and Eric Greenfeld, Nic Pizzolatto.
Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Guilty’ is all set to release in select theatres in September and on Netflix on 1st October, 2021.
Watch the trailer here👇🏼
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