'Equals' Movie News: New Trailer out, Hoult and Stewart Discover Love in Unlikely Place
In a future world where emotions are obsolete, two people discover love and fight to keep it undetected or else risk punishment. The new "Equals" movie trailer provides a longer look this time and features Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart as the lovers Silas and Nia, respectively, finding forbidden love in a dystopian society depicted in the latest science fiction film from Drake Doremus.
The story is set in an all-white, sterile-looking utopia where people interact in a dry and chilly manner, if at all. Survivors of a war of the world calling themselves the Collective, one of two camps left---the other being a far-off place in the wild---live in a perfect world where there is no sickness, not even the common cold, but the resulting monochromatic society has bred out emotions for the sake of progress.
Silas and Nia are two of many workers in what was considered a ministry for information in the Collective world. Like everyone else, they are mortally afraid of catching a condition known as the Switched-on-Syndrome (SOS) that weakened its victims by a return of emotions thought weaned out of their humanity, but are only just lying dormant, waiting for a trigger. Those affected with the condition find themselves in seclusion at a prison or committing suicide.
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As the illicit lovers find themselves drawn more into hopeless love, they desperately fight to tone down their emotions which threaten to engulf them both in order to avoid detection.
Besides directing it, the film is also written by Doremus, who has carved a niche for himself in creating stories of love that hurts, including his 2011 tale of a long-distance affair, "Like Crazy."
Co-starring in "Equals" with Hoult and Stewart are Kate Lyn Sheil, Toby Huss, Guy Pearce, Bel Prowley, and Jacki Weaver.
First screened at the Toronto Film Festival last September, the film opens in theaters on July 15, showcasing a story of a kind of you-and-me-against-the-world first love which is seen as a debilitating condition wherein death seems the only end in store.
