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Netflix is fixing itself up with a couple of regular stars, such as Emily in Paris‘ Lilly Collins and The Power of the Dog‘s Jesse Plemons.

The two actors are the main protagonists in Netflix’s latest psychological thriller Windfall, who get kidnapped by a rather frazzled looking Jason Segel.

Described as a “Hitchcockian thriller” for being eerily reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classics that deal with interior dramas, Windfall is about the intensity of being trapped inside, but with a twist, notes Collider.

The freshly released trailer shows Segel’s character robbing the vacation home of a tech billionaire and his wife, rather poorly at that, as he struggles to open a purse and takes advice from his victims about the ransom demand.

Call it a comedy neo-thriller, then.

The trailer alone is piled with tensions between the characters, eventually culminating in a moment of violence:

More on the team behind the film:

Windfall is directed by Charlie McDowell, who previously worked with Segel and Plemons on The Discovery, with a screenplay from Justin Lader and Andrew Kevin Walker, based on a story by McDowell and Segel, the latter of whom pairs the project with his starring roles in HBO Max’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty and Apple TV+’s The Sky is Everywhere. 

Windfall might just reinvigorate the film noir game.

Keep an eye out for its debut on Netflix from March 18.

[source:collider]