‘Primetime’ Trailer: Robert Pattinson Is Uncanny as Chris Hansen

Robert Pattinson transforms into Dateline NBC’s Chris Hansen within the official first trailer for A24’s Primetime, in theaters later this 12 months.

The official first trailer for Primetime guarantees a dramatic, intense biographical thriller about one in all tv’s most notorious packages, Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator, because it options scenes of tense undercover sting operations, behind-the-scenes manufacturing drama, and Pattinson as Hansen as he teeters between journalism and vigilantism.

It’s impressed casting, too. Pattinson, who’s already having one hell of a 12 months with The Odyssey, The Drama, and Dune: Half Three, captures Hansen’s complicated persona and sounds precisely like the enduring TV host as he delivers acquainted traces like, “You see how this appears to be like, proper?”

Watch the Primetime trailer, under:

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In keeping with an official logline for the movie:

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen units out to make tv historical past.

Primetime seems to lean darker and extra psychological than a standard biopic. It additionally seems to incorporate the notorious and controversial four-day, multi-sting operation in Texas in 2006, when a suspect died by way of suicide inside his residence when Hansen’s digital camera crew and regulation enforcement approached him as a part of an investigation for To Catch a Predator.

The upcoming drama-thriller from A24 additionally stars Phoebe Bridgers, Merritt Wever, Anna Faris, and Skyler Gisondo.

To Catch a Predator aired on NBC between 2004 and 2007. The present adopted Hansen as he confronted, by way of varied hidden-camera sting operations, grownup males accused of making an attempt to fulfill minors for intercourse. The operations sometimes featured a decoy minor performed by an grownup.

Directed by Lance Oppenheim, Primetime releases in theaters on September 25, 2026.