{"id":14272,"date":"2026-09-17T00:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=14272"},"modified":"2026-09-17T03:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T00:26:27","slug":"anya-taylor-joy-wants-to-sacrifice-chris-evans-in-dark-netflix-comedy-watch-the-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/anya-taylor-joy-wants-to-sacrifice-chris-evans-in-dark-netflix-comedy-watch-the-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Anya Taylor-Joy Wants To Sacrifice Chris Evans In Dark Netflix Comedy \u2014 Watch The Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/anya-taylor-joy-wants-to-sacrifice-chris-evans-in-dark-netflix-comedy-watch-the-trailer.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<hr class=\"preferredSourceCTA-module-scss-module__sCL6Nq__divider\" \/><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>If Chris Evans outing himself as &#8216;Team Iron Man&#8217; in the great <em>Captain America: Civil War<\/em> debate earlier today has left you seeking to exact punishment on the artist formerly known as America&#8217;s Ass, then fear not: Anya Taylor-Joy has you covered. <em>Sacrifice<\/em>, the Netflix bound latest movie from <em>Athena<\/em> director Romain Gavras, sees Taylor-Joy play a cult leader whose earnest belief that the only way to avert an extinction-level event is to yeet Evans&#8217; down-and-out action star Mike Tyler into a nearby volcano. Sound mad? Well, it looks pretty mad, too. Check out the trailer below;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Well that was <em>a lot<\/em> to take in, wasn&#8217;t it? We weren&#8217;t kidding when we said <em>Sacrifice<\/em> looks mad! Insufferable rich folk everywhere. Eco-warrior-cum-cult-leader Anya Taylor-Joy, all bandana&#8217;d up, espousing her faith in the &#8220;cleansing power of death&#8221;. Chris Evans going full <em>Knives Out<\/em> shit-eating grin mode. <em>And<\/em> all that business with the volcano, the supposed extinction of humanity, and a rich vein of ever-welcome anti-capitalist sentiment. Let it never be said that Gavras&#8217; &#8216;mythical dark comedy&#8217; isn&#8217;t going for broke to deliver on each element of its niche micro-genre trifecta here.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>The official synopsis for <em>Sacrifice<\/em> \u2014 whose starry ensemble includes the likes of <em>*deep breath*<\/em> Vincent&nbsp;Cassel, Ambika Mod, Sam Richardson, Charli XCX, John Malkovich, and Salma Hayek-Pinault \u2014 reads: &#8220;During a star-studded charity gala brimming with celebrities, billionaires, and empty speeches, a movie star in the midst of an existential crisis (Evans) is taken hostage by a radical warrior (Taylor-Joy) and her devoted followers.&nbsp;As the night descends into chaos, both an inward journey and an outward adventure ensue, where the lines between performance and belief \u2014 and salvation and sacrifice \u2014 begin to blur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content-module-scss-module__RI8h6a__content\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Whether or not <em>Sacrifice<\/em>, which has already been dividing critics on the festival circuit, can handle the certifiably bonkers plates it&#8217;s spinning or not is anyone&#8217;s guess. But with its nuts premise, veritable who&#8217;s who of stars driving it, and the promise of some incredibly self-unaware bourgeois elites being made to squirm for a couple of hours, consider us ready and willing to sacrifice our time for <em>Sacrifice<\/em> when it hits Netflix in the US and France on 16 October. Stay tuned for confirmation of a UK release date in due course.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Chris Evans outing himself as &#8216;Team Iron Man&#8217; in the great Captain America: Civil War debate earlier today has left you seeking to exact punishment on the artist formerly known as America&#8217;s Ass, then fear not: Anya Taylor-Joy has you covered. Sacrifice, the Netflix bound latest movie from Athena director Romain Gavras, sees Taylor-Joy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14274,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14272\/revisions\/14274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}