Jacob Elordi is feelin’ the (salt)burn…
Amazon Studios has released the first teaser for Saltburn, starring the 26-year-old half-Spanish Australian actor.
From Academy Award-winning writer and director Emerald Fennell, the film also stars Barry Keoghan and Rosamund Pike.
Plot details have been kept under wraps, with the only hint being that Saltburn is a “story of obsession.”
Now, with the trailer, we learn a little bit more.
Keoghan’s character Oliver meets Felix (Elordi) at a swanky boarding school. Felix, finding out his new acquaintance might not have the greatest situation at home, says, “Why don’t you come home with me? Come to Saltburn.”
Saltburn, it turns out, is the estate of Felix’s family, complete with a butler, a snobby mom and an upper-crust ingenue who may or may not be complementing Oliver when she tells him, “You’re so…real.”
What follows is a fish-out-of-water story in which Oliver takes a journey inside the access and excess that the 1% enjoy. At one point Keoghan’s character enthuses, “I can honestly say that these these past few months have been the happiest of my life.” We get a sense that happiness, however, may not hold.
Saltburn is Fennell’s follow-up to Promising Young Woman, which was nominated for several Oscars and won Best Original Screenplay for Fennell.
The film is produced by Fennell, MRC and LuckyChap Entertainment’s Josey McNamara, Tom Ackerley and Margot Robbie. World rights to the film were picked up by Amazon Studios in a pact with Knives Out outfit MRC.
