How “Leave the World Behind” Production Designer Anastasia White Built a House for the End of the World
Leave the World Behind has five main characters. Four are human, and the other is the house where they find themselves holed up together as an apocalyptic event rages outside. In the acclaimed 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam, the house has colorful interiors and a white picket fence. Not anymore. Sam Esmail, who wrote and ...
Final “Leave the World Behind” Trailer Teases Netflix’s Tense Star-Studded Thriller
The final trailer for writer/director Sam Esmail’s Leave the World Behind is here a few days before the buzzy thriller arrives on Netflix on December 8. With Mr. Robot creator Esmail at the helm, a star-studded cast, and terrific source material in Rumaan Alam’s hit 2020 novel of the name, Leave the World Behind is feels very much like ...
Mahershala Ali and Julia Roberts Face the Unthinkable in “Leave the World Behind” Trailer
In the official trailer for writer/director Sam Esmail’s Leave the World Behind, we open on a married couple in disparate moments of readiness. At the foot of the bed, packing a bag, is Amanda Sanford (Julia Roberts), informing her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke), lying prone under the covers, that she’s gone ahead and booked them a beautiful ...
Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali & Co Seek Refuge at the End of the World in “Leave The World Behind” Trailer
The first trailer for Leave The World Behind is here, a perfect marriage of material and film talent. The movie is based on Rumaan Alam’s sizzling novel, one of 2020’s must-reads, a genuinely riveting story about two families facing the prospect of complete societal collapse while sequestered together in a house in the Hamptons. Alam’s novel dropped, ...
Mahershala Ali Joining Julia Roberts in Netflix’s “Leave The World Behind”
This is going to be an epic movie. Deadline reports that Mahershala Ali is joining the cast of Netflix’s Leave the World Behind, an adaption of Rumaan Alam’s novel of the same name. Alam’s novel, a ripping thriller involving a weekend vacation gone horribly awry, will be adapted by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. Ali joins Julia Roberts in the ...
