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Robert Pattinson’s astonishing translator into Chris Hansen has fans buzzing.
A24 dropped their first trailer for “Primetime” connected Wednesday, successful which Pattinson plays nan real-life investigative journalist. The movie tells nan root communicative of Hansen’s notorious “To Catch a Predator” series.
The logline for “Primetime” reads, “In 2006, ‘To Catch a Predator’ big Chris Hansen sets retired to make tv history.”
Pattinson, 40, drastically changed his sound to embody Hansen, who became celebrated for hosting nan “Dateline” conception “To Catch a Predator.” The segment, which ran from 2004 to 2007, centered astir Hansen confronting big men trying to person activity pinch minors pinch hidden cameras.
Pattinson (as Hansen) says successful a voice-over successful nan trailer, “What would person happened if I wasn’t here? You spot really this looks, right?”
He continues, “At nan extremity of nan day, men must beryllium held accountable for nan decisions that he makes, do you agree?”
The acheronian trailer shows footage of imaginable Internet predators getting caught connected video.
“Do you watch television?” nan voice-over continues. “Well there’s thing you should know. I’m Chris Hansen pinch ‘Dateline NBC,’ and you’re astir to beryllium a portion of tv history.”
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“Primetime,” directed by Lance Oppenheim, is group to deed theaters connected Sept. 11. The movie besides stars Anna Faris, Pheobe Bridgers, Merritt Wever and Skyler Gisondo.
“To Catch a Predator” has been arguable since its debut. The bid featured Hansen’s squad posing arsenic underage boys and girls connected nan Internet, past ambushing big men successful a sting cognition aft getting them to effort to meet up pinch nan minors they were posing as.
Hansen would past face nan men pinch embarrassing grounds of nan chats, and often nan men would later beryllium arrested by police, who were waiting extracurricular for them.
Critics questioned nan vigilante attack of nan show — particularly aft Texas adjunct territory lawyer Bill Conradt committed termination successful 2006 erstwhile “Dateline” cameras and constabulary surrounded his location to apprehension him. NBC later settled a suit brought connected by Conradt’s sister successful 2008.
Hansen, 66, defended nan bid successful an question and reply pinch Time successful February 2015.
“I deliberation we raised consciousness and created a speech that didn’t beryllium before,” he said. “We created compelling television, and I deliberation we exposed a batch of bad group who were preying connected children.”
‘So if nan old-guard journalists person a problem pinch that, past truthful beryllium it,” he added.
