One of the most-buzzed-about films that premiered at this year's Sundance has now received its first trailer. Here's your first look at "The Signal," the upcoming sci-fi head-scratcher starring up-and-comer Brenton Thwaites (The Giver, Maleficent and Oculus) as a young MIT student who encounters a strange, unearthly "signal" during a road trip through the Nevada desert, and soon finds himself taken into custody by a clandestine government scientist (played by Laurence Fishburne, in a hazmat suit) who believes he's an alien or has come in contact with aliens. In either case, the kid starts to show signs of abnormal powers as the mystery of the signal unfolds. Shot with a sleek, atmospheric style, commercial/music video helmer William Eubank, who cut his teeth on 2011's Angels & Airwaves-produced sci-fi drama "Love," co-writes and directs his second film that also stars Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp and Lin Shaye. Since its Park City debut in January, "The Signal" has mostly drawn positive reviews and it's been now slated for a theatrical release in the summer, June 13th.
Synopsis: Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour: the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. The trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area. Suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students, Nic (Brenton Thwaites), regains consciousness, he is in a waking nightmare...
Directed by: William Eubank
Starring: Brenton Thwaites, Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, Lin Shaye, Robert Longstreet, Jeffrey Grover
Release Date: June 13, 2014
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