Kristoffer Borgli’s last movie may have been called Dream Scenario, but that was very much a misnomer: in that film, Nic Cage’s Paul Matthews may have started out reaping the rewards of appearing in other folks’ dreams, but it soon turned into a full-on nightmare scenario. Borgli’s latest A24 joint however, The Drama, looks like it’s about to deliver exactly what it says on the tin as its latest trailer sees Zendaya and Robert Pattinson’s soon-to-be-weds Charlie and Emma find their upcoming nuptials thrown into crisis by a shocking last-minute revelation. Check it out below;
For a good minute or so there, you may have been thinking “I see no drama here, Empire — what are you talking about? It’s just Zendaya and R-Pattz giggling and flirting and struggling to write their wedding speeches! Pah!” But then Charlie and Emma go for dinner with their pals Mamoudou Athie and Alana Haim and the ol’ “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” question gets popped and… well… we don’t hear exactly what Emma has done, but it’s gotta be something rough. Smash-cut to awkward silences, panic attacks, and both figurative and literal car crashes as the wheels come off Zendaya and Pattinson’s pre-nuptial bliss. “I know true love is complicated,” muses Charlie over shots of him accidentally head butting Emma and her indulging in some unexpected bedroom roughness. “It’s about acceptance, radical acceptance,” he continues, trailing off as The Drama’s drama flashes by, teasing another high-intensity and slyly satirical character study courtesy of Borgli.
The brief synopsis for Borgli’s Ari Aster produced movie — which co-stars Hailey Gates — reads: “The Drama centers on Emma Harwood (Zendaya), who works at a publishing house, and British museum director Charlie Thompson (Pattinson). The happily engaged couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink after an unexpected revelation amid their wedding week.”
What exactly is it that Zendaya’s done that’s so unspeakably awful? Will she and R-Pattz work it out in time for their upcoming appearances in both Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming Dune 3? We’ll find out the answers to both of those questions and more when The Drama hits cinemas stateside on 3 April, 2026 and here in the UK hopefully very soon after.