Netflix released the first trailer for white noisea shocking black comedy by Noam Baumbach based on Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel of the same name.

Adam Driver (Annette) plays Jack Gladney, a Hitler studies professor at the fictional College on the Hill, who must vacate with his wife Babette (Greta Gerwig) and his four children in the wake of a disastrous train accident. who dumps chemical waste on their quiet hometown.

Don Cheadle (Rwanda Hotel), André “3000” Benjamin and Jodie-Turner-Smith (queen and skinnyJoin the cast as Jack’s eccentric college-on-the-Hill academic colleagues, while Sam Nivola, May Nivola and Raffey CassidyKilling a sacred deer) is played by his children Heinrich, Stevie and Dennis.

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white noise It is the first Bombach modification of a pre-existing work. DeLillo’s novel is an insightful, witty, and vaguely funny exploration of the absurdities of postmodern America, capitalism, and technology mania.

white noise The film will screen August 31 at the 79th Venice International Film Festival before opening at this year’s New York Film Festival on September 30. The film will be shown in select theaters and broadcast on Netflix later this year.