Written and directed by Noah Baumbach, the film is an adaption of the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in the same year.
Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming film, White Noise.
White Noise is set on the backdrop of an industrial incident that has forced society to take cover. Love, life, and death are paired with fatalities, evacuations and toxic waste disasters that threaten humanity.
Two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver plays Jack Gladney, a “Hitler studies” professor at a local college and father of four. Greta Gerwig plays Babette, Gladney’s wife, and when an “airborne toxic event” takes over the Gladneys’ fictional university town, Jack and Babette strive to protect their brood of children.
Other cast members include Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Lars Eidinger, Andre Benjamin and Jodie Turner-Smith.
The film features music by Danny Elfman, and is the work of producers Baumbach, David Heyman and Uri Singer, along with executive producers Brian Bell and Leslie Converse.
In a description of the film included in Netflix’s press release, it is described as “At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.”
White Noise is director Baumbach’s latest endeavor with Gerwig, who is also his partner. The couple has co-written several films, including the 2012 comedy-drama Frances Ha, in which Gerwig also starred, and Mistress America, which he directed.
They also co-wrote Barbie, the upcoming film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, in which Gerwig is directing.
Baumbach has also previously worked with Driver in Marriage Story, which earned Baumbach an Academy Award screenplay nomination and Driver a nomination for Best Actor.
White Noise will be the opening-night film at the 60th New York Film Festival, which takes place from September 30 to October 16. The movie will later open the 79th Venice Film Festival later this month, according to The New York Times.
“It is a great honor to open the 79th Venice Film Festival with ‘White Noise,’” festival chief Alberto Barbera said in an official statement after the announcement. “It was worth waiting for the certainty that the film was finished to have the pleasure to make this announcement. Adapted from the great Don DeLillo novel, Baumbach has made an original, ambitious and compelling piece of art, which plays with measure on multiple registers: dramatic, ironic, satirical. The result is a film that examines our obsessions, doubts, and fears as captured in the 1980s, yet with very clear references to contemporary reality.”
Following its festival debuts, White Noise will be available on Netflix later this year.
