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Jim Jar­musch returns with the first The Dead Don’t Die trailer

01 Apr 2019

Words by Charles Bramesco

Two men in police uniforms standing amongst gravestones in a cemetery.
Two men in police uniforms standing amongst gravestones in a cemetery.
The director’s zom­bie-themed lat­est stars Adam Dri­ver, Til­da Swin­ton and Bill Murray.

With the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val close on the hori­zon and a Com­pe­ti­tion slot all but assured, the first look at Jim Jar­musch​‘s lat­est fea­ture The Dead Don’t Die has arrived not a moment too soon. The teaser’s boast of ​“the great­est zom­bie cast ever dis­as­sem­bled” is not made lightly.

Adam Dri­ver, Bill Mur­ray, and Chloë Sevi­gny com­prise the local police force keep­ing the sleepy ham­let of Cen­ter­ville safe from mug­gers, car­jack­ers, the occa­sion­al bur­glar. They meet their great­est chal­lenge when a zom­bie out­break threat­ens their home and places the likes of Steve Busce­mi, Car­ol Kane, the RZA, and Iggy Pop in undead harm’s way.

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Else­where, Sele­na Gomez and a group of friends watch the car­nage play out via the area TV sta­tion. And in one way or anoth­er, Caleb Landry Jones, Dan­ny Glover, Rosie Perez, and Tom Waits also fig­ure into the unfold­ing dead­pan nightmare.

Also, per­haps most impor­tant­ly, Til­da Swin­ton has donned the cus­tom­ary garb of a samu­rai and tak­en up katanas against the zom­bie menace.

It looks like anoth­er tromp through genre par­o­dy for Jar­musch, who decon­struct­ed vam­pire cin­e­ma back in 2013 with his Only Lovers Left Alive. While the trail­er makes this one look a bit more jam-packed with action than any­thing he’s done in the past, Focus Fea­tures has a film to sell. Jar­musch only knows how to be him­self, and there’ll be no short­age of iron­ic quips to go along with the carnage.

Today also brings the offi­cial poster for the film, includ­ed below for your view­ing pleasure.

The Dead Don’t Die comes to the­aters in the US on 14 June.

Hand emerging from graveyard with bloody fingers, surrounded by text listing cast of zombie film "The Dead Don't Die"

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