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Searchlight has released the first trailer for “The Roses,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in a marriage turning sour. A reimagining of the 1989 black comedy “The War of the Roses,” “The Roses” is directed and produced by Jay Roach with a screenplay by Tony McNamara. Both films are inspired by Warren Adler’s 1981 novel “The War of the Roses.”
The film follows Ivy (Colman) and Theo (Cumberbatch), a seemingly perfect California couple with successful careers, great kids and a loving marriage. But when Theo’s career begins to nosedive as Ivy’s ambitions take off, their ideal life crumbles and the couple’s hidden resentments bubble to the surface.
Andy Samberg, Allison Janney, Ncuti Gatwa, Kate McKinnon, Sunita Mani, Jamie Demetriou, Zoë Chao and Belinda Bromilow also star. “The Roses” is produced by Michelle Graham, Ed Sinclair and Tom Carver, with Benedict Cumberbatch under his SunnyMarch banner alongside producing partners Adam Ackland and Leah Clarke.
“The film is a parable of two people who loved each other intensely, then ended up hating each other intensely and missing the middle ground,” Cumberbatch told Vanity Fair in a preview of the feature. “Much of it is shockingly recognizable: how we struggle to show love toward the people we love the most, and how this can all go wrong very quickly if we’re not careful about nurturing and nourishing the relationships at the center of our families.”
Adler’s novel was first adapted for the screen by 20th Century Fox in 1989 by director Danny DeVito, who co-wrote and starred in the film opposite Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. DeVito’s film was the 13th-highest grossing movie of 1989 and nabbed a BAFTA nod and three Golden Globes nominations, including in best comedy or musical. That film ended with a bitter, disastrous unraveling between Turner and Douglas’ characters,
“The Roses” arrives in theaters on August 29. Watch the trailer below.
