The appeal of Velvet Buzzsaw, which surprised the world on Thursday morning with its very first trailer, is twofold. The first thing that will intrigue is the cast: Jake Gyllenhaal takes the lead, and seems to be toeing the line between the chilling, demented performance he gave in Nightcrawler (from whose writer and director this new film hails) and the wackier character work he displayed in Okja. But he’s just one of the gems on board—Toni Collette, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Billy Magnussen, Daveed Diggs, and other familiar faces show up in the trailer, each prompted the sort of jazzed, “Oh hey!” definitive of the most fun ensemble pieces. But then there’s the second, and even more exciting, piece of the puzzle: the absolutely bananas premise.
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