A full trailer has been released for Gia Coppola’s next feature film, Mainstream, starring Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man, The Social Network) and Maya Hawke (Stranger Things).
Mainstream follows Frankie (Hawke), a bartender who has a video starring a strange young man named Link (Garfield) go semi-viral. As the two characters come together to seek out internet success, the reality of internet stardom catches up to them. The film follows their downward spiral of love, identity and fame.
The trailer includes the mysterious first meeting of Link and Frankie, and promises an over-the-top performance from Garfield. At the film’s premiere at Venice Film Festival last year, The Hollywood Reporter described Garfield as a “screaming, spontaneous, unstable genius who dazzles the Internet like a latter-day Jim Carrey in a Gen Z version of The Truman Show.”
Joining Garfield and Hawke in the cast are Nat Wolff (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars), Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), Alexa Demie (Euphoria)and Johnny Knoxville (Jackass). The trailer also teases cameos from established YouTube personalities such as Patrick Starr and Jake Paul.
After much of everyday life has shifted online, Mainstream’s subject matter is as relevant as ever. Before the trailer’s release, writer/director Gia Coppola told Vulture “For me, making this movie was my catharsis, trying to process all of these things that I was feeling and witnessing and trying to emoji-vomit it out.”
Co-Written with Tom Stuart, Mainstream is the first feature film from Gia since her well received directorial debut Palo Alto in 2013.
Gia is the granddaughter of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather), and the niece of Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation).
Mainstream promises to be a fast-paced eccentric comedy for the digital age, satirising a familiar story of YouTube fame.
The film will be available on demand in the UK on 7 May.
Words by Amy K Brown
Image from Venice Film Festival
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