Warner Bros. released a new trailer for “The End of Oak Street” on Monday morning, dropping the audience directly into the dinosaur attack that earlier marketing only hinted at, ahead of the David Robert Mitchell film’s August 14 theatrical and IMAX release.
The footage stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as parents of a suburban family whose entire street is ripped from their neighborhood by what the studio’s synopsis calls a mysterious cosmic event and deposited somewhere prehistoric. Mitchell, the writer-director behind the 2014 horror film “It Follows,” wrote and directed from his own script. J.J. Abrams produces through Bad Robot alongside Hannah Minghella, with Matt Jackson and Tommy Harper also producing. Where the first teaser in March kept the creatures mostly offscreen, the new trailer shows dinosaurs storming through the street and going after the residents, as The Film Stage reported Monday.
Mitchell developed the project in near-total secrecy under the working title “Flowervale Street” before Warner Bros. gave it the current name when the first trailer landed in late March. Principal photography ran in London and Atlanta, beginning in March 2024 and wrapping that June. The story centers on the Platt family, with Hathaway and McGregor at the head and “Sweet Tooth” breakout Christian Convery and “My Old Ass” lead Maisy Stella playing their children.
The rest of the cast includes Chris Coy of “The Peripheral,” P.J. Byrne from “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and Jordan Alexa Davis, who appeared in “Defending Jacob.” Mitchell brought back cinematographer Mike Gioulakis, his collaborator on “It Follows” and “Under the Silver Lake.” John Axelrad edited.
The film is set in the early 1980s, a period detail that runs through the new trailer in the station wagons and trimmed lawns sitting against a dense jungle backdrop. Mitchell told Entertainment Weekly his reference points included “Jurassic Park,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Poltergeist,” “The Valley of Gwangi,” and M. Night Shyamalan’s “Signs.” “It’s the merging of character with spectacle, the way that I think some of those ’70s and ’80s movies did really well,” Mitchell told the outlet.
Abrams has built much of his career on this kind of slow-release marketing, going back to the “Cloverfield” campaign and “Super 8.” “The End of Oak Street” followed that pattern through the spring, parceling out plot details and letting the dinosaur reveal carry each new look. Monday’s trailer is the fullest one yet, and it arrives with about ten weeks left before the film opens.
“The End of Oak Street” reaches theaters and IMAX on August 14 from Warner Bros.
