‘Mortal’ Trailer: Nat Wolff Discovers He Has Powers Of A Norse God
Not sinceChroniclehas a movie made having god-like powers seem so horrifying.Nat Wolff(Death Note) stars inMortalas Eric, an American backpacker traveling through a sleepy Norwegian town when a mysterious fire leads to his arrest. As police converge on the panicked backpacker, it’s revealed that Eric has somehow been imbued with powers like those of the Norse gods. Watch theMortaltrailer below.
Mortal Trailer
Norwegian directorAndré Ovredalseemed to be on a hot streak, successfully breaking into Hollywood with horror hits likeThe Autopsy Of JaneDoeand ScaryStories To Tell In The Darkafter his breakout hitTrollhunter, a dark fantasy film which earned Ovredal international attention. But despite the similar ground thatMortaltreads — with its fantasy roots inspired by Norse mythology — it seems like that streak may be ending.
It pains me to say it, butMortaldoesn’t look great. Based on a story by Ovredal, who directs and co-writes the film with Norman Lesperance, Geoff Bussetil,Mortalwas originally set to star Robert Sheehan, but tapped Wolff in the lead role of a young man who discovers that he has god-like powers based on ancient Norse mythology. Though Wolff’s younger brother Alex Wolff has managed to carve out a solid career with roles in films likeHereditaryandJumanji, the older Wolff hasn’t really impressed so far, despite lead roles in films likePaper TownsandDeath Note. In this trailer, Wolff seems out of his element surrounded by mostly Norwegian actorsIben Akerlie,Per Frisch, andPer Egil Aske, with the exception of Indian actressPriyanka Bose.
Mortalwas released in Norway in February this year to little fanfare, and it seems that Saban Films isn’t throwing much support behind its U.S. release, dropping the film in select theaters and VOD on November 6 before shortly releasing it on Blu-ray a week later.
Here is the synopsis forMortal:
In this spellbinding thriller, a sleepy Norwegian town erupts after an American backpacker, Eric, is arrested. Witnesses claim a teen died after touching the stranger, and that he inexplicably started a fire that engulfed a farm. He warns a psychologist, Christine, that he has supernatural powers, and that anyone who gets too close to him dies. Is Eric a liar, a freak of nature, an angry god? Determined to find the truth, Christine draws nearer, and what she finds is beyond her wildest imaginings…
Mortalpremieres in select theaters and on demand and Digital onNovember 6, 2020, before it makes its way to Blu-ray onNovember 10, 2020.
