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Emma Wat­son gets tech wary in the first trail­er for The Circle

08 Dec 2016

Words by Tom Williams

She stars along­side Tom Han­ks in this adap­ta­tion of Dave Eggers’ best-sell­ing thriller.

We’ve been eager­ly await­ing a first look at James Ponsoldt’s adap­ta­tion of Dave Eggers’ tech indus­try satire ​‘The Cir­cle’, and judg­ing by this first trail­er the direc­tor hasn’t dis­ap­point­ed. Tom Han­ks sports a Steve Jobs-style turtle­neck as the CEO of the world’s largest inter­net com­pa­ny, deliv­er­ing some com­pelling spiel about his firm’s belief in the per­fectibil­i­ty of human beings. The eerie accom­pa­ny­ing piano music imme­di­ate­ly sets the dystopi­an tone, sug­gest­ing the film will be faith­ful to the source material.

We also get to glimpse Emma Wat­son as Mae Hol­land, who grows increas­ing­ly con­cerned through­out this teas­er over the insid­i­ous spec­tre of mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy. And, off the back of his break­out per­for­mance in 2015’s The Force Awak­ens, John Boye­ga stars as anoth­er rogue who seems to be unrav­el­ling the truth at the heart of the epony­mous Orwellian organ­i­sa­tion. This trail­er hints at some­thing dark­er too, with drone crash­es and shrill screams pre­ced­ing the haunt­ing ​“watch­ing you” that comes at the end. Watch it above and let us know what you think @LWLies

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