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A24 has unveiled nan first trailer for Primetime, its forthcoming play starring Robert Pattinson, which chronicles nan origins of Chris Hansen‘s To Catch a Predator.
In 2024, we were first to report on Primetime, a movie from Ren Faire‘s Lance Oppenheim, which astatine nan clip hadn’t confirmed Hansen arsenic nan taxable of nan story, issuing a logline astir “a journalist who takes connected an underworld of crime and changes tv forever.”
To Catch a Predator is of people nan true-crime programme put connected arsenic portion of Dateline NBC, which chronicled Hansen’s efforts to retired suspected kid predators, pinch nan thief of rule enforcement and a squad of decoys pretending to beryllium minors online.
Set up arsenic a divided screen, nan trailer hints astatine Hansen’s early efforts pinch nan show, arsenic Pattinson issues speech that will ringing acquainted to anyone who’s seen To Catch a Predator — questions Hansen would prod his subjects pinch aft catching them connected camera, successful an alleged effort to meet successful personification pinch a child.
“What would person happened if I wasn’t here? You spot really this looks, right?” Hansen asks. “At nan extremity of nan day, a man must beryllium held accountable for nan decisions that he makes. Would you agree?”
Pattinson’s TV big later asks, “Do you watch television? Well, there’s thing you should know. I’m Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC — and you’re capable to beryllium a portion of tv history.”
While Primetime‘s constituent of position connected Hansen and his programme isn’t wholly clear from nan teaser, it wouldn’t beryllium astonishing to spot nan movie align pinch that of Predators, an acclaimed 2025 documentary from David Osit, which examined nan dubious morals down nan accumulation of To Catch a Predator. The teaser seems to propose that nan movie will beryllium successful nan vein of Dan Gilroy’s 2014 thriller Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal arsenic a shady, ambulance-chasing L.A. stringer.
Also starring Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo and Phoebe Bridgers, Primetime will deed theaters this fall, though nan movie has not yet gotten an charismatic merchandise date. Oppenheim directed from a book by Ajon Singh, pinch Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fred Berger, Pattinson, Brighton McCloskey, Lars Knudsen and Tyler Campellone producing.
Check retired the Primetime teaser above.
