"A Big Bold Beautiful Journey" Trailer: Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell Star in Director Kogonada's New Surreal Romance About Love and Lost Moments
In this romantic fantasy, two strangers (Robbie and Farrell) unlock pivotal memories in a magical dream world, where love and regrets collide.
Some romantic movies take audiences on a journey from a chance encounter to a heart-stopping crescendo, weaving moments of laughter, longing, and the occasional tear or two.
Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell’s latest feature film seems to do exactly that, only the journey is through a dream world where memories are unlocked and opportunities to set things right seem to be the goal here. It’s a romantic epic that also doubles as an existential journey into what happens when love and memory collide.
So, buckle up! ’Cause this isn't your average meet-cute. It’s two lonely hearts swept up in a magical dimension where finding the right person also means finding the right life moment to share with them.
Check out the first official trailer for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, a new romantic fantasy that whisks Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell into a world where the sparks are real, but the rules of reality… not so much.
In the film, Robbie and Farrell star as Sarah and David, two strangers brought together by fate. They meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and quickly hit it off. Before they know it, they are swept up in a surreal, time-bending adventure through a magical dream world where each red door they see leads to a pivotal memory from their past.
For David, unlocking a moment from high school means reliving the day he was set to perform in the school musical—when he missed his chance to tell his crush how much she meant to him. Now he gets to revisit that anxiety-filled day, warts and all. For Sarah, unlocking a past moment with her mother means finally telling her how much she loves her before saying goodbye.
Regrets, romance, and emotional revelations await behind every portal… and possibly, the chance for Sarah and David to finally seize the moments they missed and share these life-altering memories with each other, proving that love can heal old wounds as well as forge a future filled with hope and possibility.
Acclaimed filmmaker Kogonada directed the upcoming film. This is his second collaboration with Colin Farrell, following 2021’s heartfelt sci-fi drama After Yang about a father’s emotional journey to repair the family’s malfunctioning android companion.
Kogonada, who started his career as a video essayist for Criterion Collection and Sight & Sound, has so far built a filmography (this being his third feature) where the common thread consists of trying to understand human connections and how we often feel attached to memory and spaces, physically or emotionally. And with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Kogonada seems to be continuing that thread, as he certainly dares to ask audiences: if you could go back and do it differently, would you?
Kogonada directs from a screenplay by Seth Reiss, who co-wrote the dark satire The Menu with Will Tracy. Reiss has also worked for many years on the talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers as a staff writer and supervisor.
Joining Robbie and Farrell in the cast are Lily Rabe, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Kevin Kline, Jodie Turner-Smith, Billy Magnussen, Brandon Perea, Sarah Gadon, Chloe East, and Hamish Linklater.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey hits theaters September 19th.
Official Synopsis:
What if you could open a doorway and walk through it to re-live a defining moment from your past?
Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.