A24 invites you to discover an “X-traordinary origin story” with the official Pearl trailer this morning, Ti West‘s brand new feature film prequel to this year’s A24 slasher movie, X!
Pearl will be released theatrically on September 16, 2022!
Mia Goth will reprise the role of X‘s villain Pearl in the upcoming prequel, A24 had originally teased in the post-credits of West‘s latest movie, with a trailer for the top secret prequel movie attached to X in theaters. That trailer never made its way online, and this morning A24 has unleashed a brand new trailer that’s loaded with far more footage from the film.
The brand new prequel movie is set in 1918, decades prior to the 1970s-set X, which was released in theaters back in March of this year. Goth played the dual role of Pearl, a senior citizen, and Maxine, the film’s final girl. The film ends with Maxine killing Pearl, who along with her husband Howard had been brutally slaying Maxine’s friends throughout the movie.
The official trailer begins with Pearl taking care of her family at the same house of horrors seen in X, dreaming of becoming a Hollywood star. Yes, Pearl was much the same as Maxine when she was a young woman, with the trailer making it clear that she began killing long before Maxine and her friends showed up at their doorstep to make an indie porn movie in the ’70s.
Pitchforks… crocodiles… brutal kills… Pearl was no stranger to any of these things…
“Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide, in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.”
West told Bloody Disgusting earlier this year, “Part of the idea of this movie that’s cool to me is that there is a bigger thing to it all. What I can tell you about Pearl, because we’ve already made it and it’s done, is it is very much a story about Pearl. So you will learn more about her. It is stylistically very different from X. You do not need one without the other, but they enrich each other in a specific way. In the way that X is affected, let’s say by 1970s horror independent filmmaking and Americana cinema, Pearl is influenced by a very different era of filmmaking. If we do the third one, it will be affected by a different type of cinema.”
In addition to Mia Goth, the second movie’s cast includes David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, and Emma Jenkins-Purro, and the film was written by West and Goth.
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