The first teaser for Julia Roberts' highly anticipated Amazon Prime series is finally here.
Amazon Studios released the first footage of upcoming psychological thriller "Homecoming," starring the 50-year-old Oscar winner, and announced the drama's premiere date during its San Diego Comic-Con panel on Friday.
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The 50-second clip shows shots of various rooms, including an office, kitchen, bedroom and hallway, before it reaches Roberts sitting in a plush chair. The actress rocks a short bob with bangs and wears a forest-green dress with a black blazer and heels.
Based on the podcast of the same name, "Homecoming" follows Roberts as Heidi Bergman, a caseworker at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, a Geist Group facility helping soldiers transition back to civilian life.
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One of her patients is Walter Cruz (Stephan James), a soldier eager to begin the next chapter of his life. Overseeing Heidi and the facility is Colin Belfast (Bobby Cannavale), an ambitious company man whose manic demands point to questionable motives.
"Homecoming" kicks off four years after Heidi leaves her job, beginning a new life, living with her mom (Sissy Spacek) and working as a small-town waitress when a Department of Defense auditor (Shea Whigham) asks questions about why she left Homecoming in the first place. Heidi soon realizes there may be a whole other story behind the one she's telling herself. Jeremy Allen White, Alex Karpovskyand Dermot Mulroney also star in the series, created by "Mr. Robot's" Sam Esmail.
"Homecoming" premieres Friday, Nov. 2 on Amazon Prime.
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San Diego Comic-Con is firing on all cylinders this weekend and now we have another brand new trailer, this time it's for Amazon Prime Video's forthcoming series Homecoming.
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Starring Julia Roberts and directed by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, the show has been described as a "mind-bending psychological thriller".
It's also now been confirmed that Homecoming will premiere Friday, November 2 on the streaming service.
The trailer doesn't give much away in terms of the all-important storyline, with the featured imagery mainly consisting of unpopulated rooms and symmetrical environments.
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But there's certainly a sense of psychology present in these shots, which are soundtracked by Radiohead's spectral 'Everything in its Right Place'.
With the previously announced synopsis in mind, Homecoming looks to take inspiration from a number of projects before it. The work of Mindhunter's David Fincher springs to mind, mashed with the labyrinthine narrative of Westworld.
The upcoming series has already been picked up for two seasons ahead of Homecoming's premiere. Now that's some confident commissioning.
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Meanwhile, the series' director Esmail is keeping busy in Hollywood with a planned collaboration with his Mr. Robot star Rami Malek in American Radical. The film will be based on the memoir of Tamer Elnoury, who was a former FBI agent.
Elnoury joined the counter-terrorism unit following 9/11 and infiltrated a United States based terror cell.
Homecoming will premiere on Amazon Prime on November 2.
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While Comic-Con is stealing all the thunder with a heap of genre fare, some more straightforward dramas are also slipping out new promo material including Amazon who’ve today released the first trailer for its original series “Homecoming”.
Julia Roberts leads the cast of the new half-hour drama series, created by Sam Esmail (“Mr. Robot”), which already has a two-season straight-to-series order. Sissy Spacek, Hong Chau, and Dermot Mulroney also star in the series
Based on the podcast of the same name by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg and directed by Esmail, the psychological thriller that centers on a caseworker at a secret government facility (Roberts) and a soldier eager to rejoin civilian life. Catherine Keener and Oscar Isaac played the roles in the original podcast.
It is presented in a collage of telephone calls, therapy sessions and overheard conversations. “Homecoming” premieres November 2nd on Amazon Prime Video.
