After world premiering to critical acclaim at Sundance back in January, the darkly comedic dating thriller Cat Person has finally unveiled a first trailer and release date, having been set to open in U.S. theaters via Rialto Pictures beginning October 6th.
An adaptation of Kristen Roupenian viral New Yorker short story from DGA Award-winning director Susanna Fogel, the film fully financed by Studiocanal looks at the brief relationship between 20-year-old college sophomore Margot (CODA’s Emilia Jones) and the somewhat-older Robert (Succession’s Nicholas Braun) from the perspective of both characters, as a means of commenting on the experience of dating today.
In an appearance alongside her leads at Deadline’s Sundance studio earlier this year, Fogel noted that the idea of toggling back and forth between the POVs of her protagonists was compelling, as a means of exploring “miscommunications and the cultural baggage that men and women bring into dating,” particularly in our post-#MeToo moment.
Summing up their disparate perspectives on their shared dating experience is the following quote from Margaret Atwood, which serves as the film’s epigraph: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
Also starring Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Michael Gandolfini, Liza Koshy, Fred Melamed, Isaac Powell, Isabella Rossellini and Donald Elise Watkins, Cat Person was scripted by Michelle Ashford. Jeremy Steckler and Conde Nast Entertainment/The New Yorker Studios’ Helen Estabrook produced the film, with Fogel, Ashford and Daniel Hank aboard as EPs.
Check out the Cat Person trailer above.
