A24 has released an intense trailer for its upcoming film Primetime, featuring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, who is shown catching a predator in the familiar television style. Pattinson was beyond convincing as the detestable Antinous in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey; he was charmingly diffident, stammering and rumpled at times in The Drama, but now he strives to be a brooding and menacing Chris Hansen in A24’s Primetime. 

And the latest trailer is proof that the actor is in tune with the character and the pitch of the project.

The first full trailer for Primetime, which stars Robert Pattinson as Dateline NBC correspondent Chris Hansen, has been released by A24. The most recent teaser offers an intense look into Pattinson's Hansen and the individuals in his sphere at this phase of his life, while the first Primetime teaser hinted at this investigation at the end of May. The movie dramatizes the plot of the news magazine's well-known pedophile-sting piece, which became the television series To Catch a Predator. 

As TV journalist Chris Hansen, who hosted To Catch a Predator under the Dateline NBC banner, the actor both produces and stars in Primetime. Over the course of three seasons, from 2004 to 2007, Hansen led a number of sting operations against child predators in the US that were captured on hidden cameras.

Given the grim subject matter handled in To Catch a Predator, Primetime's psychological thriller tone is appropriate. According to the latest trailer, this was one of the most-watched TV series of the 2000s, and Pattinson's Hansen was thrilled about the possibility that it might surpass ABC's Lost. But, as was already said, To Catch a Predator was not without controversy; over its three seasons on television, it was frequently accused of entrapment and had conflicts of interest. 

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Anyhow, Primetime comes with an adept cast and crew, with Robert Pattinson being the centerpiece of the movie.

Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Phoebe Bridgers, Matthew Maher, and Bokeem Woodbine will play supporting roles alongside Robert Pattinson in Primetime. This film marks the narrative feature debut of director Matt Oppenheim, who previously directed the HBO docuseries Ren Faire and the documentaries Some Kind of Heaven and Spermworld. The script for Primetime is written by Ajon Singh.

Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fred Berger, William Iannaccone, Brighton McCloskey, Lars Knudsen, Ari Aster, and Pattinson are the producers. Primetime will debut in theaters on September 25 after making its world premiere in competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, which takes place from September 2–12, giving a boost to Pattinson’s iconic upcoming slate of films.

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