Following its world premiere at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival, Neon has released The Royal Hotel trailer for its newest thriller, starring three-time Emmy winner Julia Garner and Glass Onion’s Jessica Henwick.
The video shows two best friends as they go backpacking in the Australian outback, where they end up temporarily working at a small town bar. They’ll soon realized that dealing with rowdy guests will be more than what they bargained for.
The film will arrive in theaters on October 6, leading it to go directly against The Exorcist: Believer and Foe. It will also debut in the same month as high-profile features including the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Five Nights at Freddy’s.
Check out The Royal Hotel trailer below (watch more trailers):
Who’s Involved in The Royal Hotel?
The Royal Hotel is directed by Kitty Green from a screenplay she co-wrote with Oscar Redding. Green previously worked with Garner in 2019’s The Assistant. Joining Garner and Henwick are Toby Wallace (The Society, The Bikeriders) as Matty, Hugo Weaving (Lord of the Rings trilogy) as Billy, Ursula Yovich (Irreverent) as Carol, Daniel Henshall (Mickey 17) as Dolly, James Frecheville (Peaky Blinders) as Teeth, and Herbert Nordrum (The Worst Person in the World) as Torsten.
“Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ‘The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town,” reads the synopsis. “Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.”
