The upcoming comedy “Brothers” has gotten its first trailer and it’s as bizarre as you’d expect. It’s directed by Max Barbakow (“Palm Springs”) from a story by Etan Cohen (“Tropic Thunder,” “Idiocracy“) and a script by Macon Blair (“The Toxic Avenger”).
The Premise
The film tells the story of a reformed criminal (Josh Brolin) whose attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother (Peter Dinklage). The pair end up on a cross-country road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother (Glenn Close) along the way. Will they be able to heal their severed family bond before they end up killing each other?
“It has one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel, which means just pathos and emotion and anarchic comedy, really swinging for big laughs not so much through jokes but through character,” Barbakow said about “Brothers” in 2020. “Like Josh Brolin in this movie, I’m a younger brother in my family dynamic. So it’s really an opportunity to continue to chase my sensibility and also explore a different part of myself, because ‘Palm Springs’ was very personal, as well. This really was all about distilling the story of this dysfunctional family, which I think everybody could relate to, through the lens of a caper heist.”
“[We had] like a murderer’s row of esteemed actors who were so down to get silly and weird,” he teased at the time. “It is quite a romp. We have crazy stuff from an orangutan in a room with Brolin to picking up a cadaver on a golf course. It was just an embarrassment of riches in the edit.”
The Cast
“Brothers,” also stars Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”), Taylour Paige (“Zola”), M. Emmet Walsh (“Knives Out”), and Jennifer Landon (“Yellowstone”). Brolin and Dinklage will also produce, along with Andrew Lazar and David Ginsberg. Blair will executive produce alongside Trish Stanard.
“Brothers” will premiere in select theaters on October 10th. Before hitting Amazon Prime Video on October 17th. You can check out the first trailer below:
