Teaser Trailer and Poster Released for JOJO RABBIT
The teaser trailer for Taika Waititi’s latest film Jojo Rabbit has been released by Fox Searchlight. (You can check it out above as well as the new poster art below!) The film stars Roman Griffin Davis, is written/directed by Waititi, and is scheduled to be in theaters on October 18, 2019.
Writer/director Taika Waititi (THOR: RAGNAROK [2017], HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE [2016]), brings his signature style of humor and pathos to his latest film, JOJO RABBIT, a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy (Roman Griffin Davis as JoJo) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Director: Taika Waititi
Writers: Taika Waititi (based on the novel by Christine Leunens)
Producers: Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi, Chelsea Winstanley
Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, Stephen Merchant
Fox Searchlight Pictures will release JOJO RABBIT in theaters October 18, 2019!
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