Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood’s sisterly bond is put to the test in a post-apocalyptic world in a newly released trailer for Patricia Rozema’s “Into the Forest.” The atmospheric clip begins with a mass power outage —no signal, no water, no tech.
The sisters and their father (Callum Keith Rennie, “Battlestar Galactica”) must figure out a way to deal with the darkness, not to mention a gas and food shortage. Their remote house outside of town becomes a sanctuary — at least at first. Desperate, frightened people do desperate, frightening things in the wake of societal collapse, and the trio will have to fight to survive not only the elements, but threats posed by other people.
“We need to stick together,” Page insists, before asking, “What else are sisters for?”
Rozema wrote the screenplay for the drama, set a few years in the future, based on the 1996 novel by Jean Hegland. The “Mansfield Park” helmer told Women and Hollywood that she was drawn to the story because of the “plausibility of the premise. Somehow it felt both real and fable-like at the same time, visceral and yet dreamlike.” “I felt like it could be a both a cautionary tale and an inspiration at the same time,” she said. “It felt of our time.”
“Into the Forest” made its world premiere at TIFF last year and opens in theaters July 29. You can catch it on DirecTV June 23. Page served as one of the producers.
Check out the suspenseful, emotional trailer below.
