Maniac trailer: Emma Stone, Jonah Hill are the romantic centre of 'multi-reality brain magic s**t'Author : AZIndia News Desk
Aug 6 (AZINS) You thought you understood how Christopher Nolan's Inception worked? Then solving the puzzle of Cary Joji Fukunaga's new Netflix series Maniac will be right up your alley.
During the Television Critics Association's Summer Press Tour, the streaming giant gave a sneak peek of what the series will hold. But the pop-colour filled, Andy Warhol-ish teaser only ended up generating more intrigue. The full-length trailer launched on Monday introduces you to protagonists Anne Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill) who are subjects of a pharmaceutical trial.
The initial set up of the trial lab resembles the palette of FX's Legion. We see Dr James K Mantleray (Justin Theroux) try his all to become the God all mighty. But we also see Dr Greta Mantleray (Sally Field) arrive in time to keep him in check. Alas, things still go awry.
In a montage of various time periods, alternate realities, we see Anne and Owen find each other.
Official synopsis -
Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, Maniac tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons. Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently.
Things do not go as planned.
Patrick Sommerville of The Leftovers and Cary Joji Fukunaga or True Detectives are the brains behind the series.
Maniac is set to arrive on September 21.