Robert Pattinson has been anointed into full Dateline danger mode.
Director Lance Oppenheim has anointed Robert Pattinson to play Chris Hansen, the Dateline NBC correspondent who hosted the program’s infamous segment To Catch a Predator.
Primetime turns a 2000s media lightning rod into a tense drama about television, crime, spectacle, and the cost of watching.
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Also co-starring Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher, and Bokeem Woodbine, the upcoming A24 thriller-drama takes aim at one of the most controversial corners of 2000s television: the true-crime-meets-news-machine world of televised sting operations. And with Wever and Gisondo already sitting in the INYIM favorites section, having them orbit Mr. Pattinson in this strange little A24 pressure cooker feels like a full cinema treat.
A24’s official setup is short, sharp, and loaded: in 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.
That alone is already a whole mood. Primetime appears ready to examine not just the alleged Internet crooks being confronted, but the machine around the confrontation — the cameras, the edits, the ethics, the ratings, and the strange American appetite for turning moral panic into must-see TV.
And with Pattinson stepping into Hansen’s unmistakable television cadence, this has all the ingredients of a very A24 kind of spiral: familiar pop-culture artifact, uneasy true-crime texture, media critique, and a lead performance that looks ready to make the room feel weird on purpose.
Press play on the teaser below and prepare to have a seat.
Watch Robert Pattinson enter the Primetime sting-house spotlight.
The teaser introduces Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, with Primetime framing the rise of televised predator stings as both media history and moral pressure cooker.
Sources: Film details via A24; teaser and cast details via A24 / YouTube.
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