Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali Star in Netflix Apocalypse Thriller 'LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND'

Talk about a all star cast for the end of the world. Netflix has gathered some heavy hitters for new apocalyptic flick, ‘LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND’ and we have some of the first images from the film below.

Vanity Fair gives us a first look at Leave the World Behind with a preview piece this afternoon, which includes plot details, insights, and a gallery of images from the upcoming movie.

Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali star in Leave the World Behind, with Roberts and Hawke playing a couple on vacation when the world falls apart.

The film adapts the 2020 novel penned by Rumaan Alam.

Vanity Fair previews, “Mahershala Ali is the owner of the property they’ve rented, who shows up in the middle of the night to seek refuge in his own home with his daughter (Bodies Bodies Bodies actor Myha’la Herrold). Can they survive together, or will they turn on one another as the situation gets desperate.”

“The disaster genre is one of my favorite genres, and the trick that we did in this film that differs from most disaster films is that in that genre, the focus—the priority of the storytelling—is on the set pieces,” Esmail tells Vanity Fair. “It’s on the spectacle of whatever the disaster might be for that story, and the characters were secondary to that.”

Esmail continues, “They’re more there to react and become the audience avatar. What I think Rumaan did so well in the novel, and what I tried to capture in the film is to invert that and make the focus be on the characters, and their reaction. The spectacle of the disaster is secondary and off in the distance.”

Leave the World Behind comes to Netflix on December 8, 2023, but the film will first be unleashed in movie theaters nationwide on November 22, 2023.

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama produced the disaster movie.

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