A suburban family confronts prehistoric beasts in the new trailer for The End of Oak Street, formerly known as Flowervale Street. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star in the new action thriller, which is the latest from the writer and director of the cult horror hit It Follows. The film will be released in theaters by Warner Bros. on August 14.
In the trailer, McGregor and Hathaway star as Denise and Greg Platt, the parents of Audrey (Maisy Stella, My Old Ass) and Brian (Christian Convery, Sweet Tooth). Their idyllic suburban life soon goes horribly wrong (despite the calming strains of Billy Joel‘s “My Life”) when their street is suddenly and inexplicably transported into a primeval jungle, seemingly from millions of years in the past. Cut off from civilization, the residents of Oak Street begin to fall prey to the new local wildlife, including rapacious raptors, soaring pterosaurs, and a monstrous Allosaurus. And while God may not protect the Platts (despite Greg’s reassurances), they’re going to defend themselves with a variety of improvised anti-dino weapons. Can they survive, or is The End of Oak Street also the end of the Platts? You’ll have to hit the theater this summer to find out.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
There’s no official word that The End of Oak Street has any connection with the three-film science-fiction-horror Cloverfield franchise. However, some have noted some similarities with the marketing aesthetics of Oak Street and the Cloverfield franchise, which last surfaced with 2018’s The Cloverfield Paradox. Additionally, J.J. Abrams, who produced the Cloverfield movies, is a producer on Oak Street, along with his production company Bad Robot. However, the theory has a major flaw: the Cloverfield films were all Paramount productions, while Oak Street is a Warner Bros. film. While the studios intend to merge, that deal has yet to pass regulatory hurdles and is not yet official, which presumably stymies any sharing of intellectual property for the time being.
The End of Oak Street was written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, who broke out with the inventive horror film It Follows. His follow-up picture, Under the Silver Lake, polarized critics and alienated audiences, but it has since attracted a cult following. Next, he is set to write and direct They Follow, a sequel to It Follows.
The End of Oak Street will be released in theaters on August 14. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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