‘Babylon’ Trailer Sends Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie on a Dazzling Hollywood Journey

‘Babylon’ arrives in select theatres on December 25 and everywhere on January 6, 2023. The first trailer is out for Damien Chazelle’s Old Hollywood period piece Babylon, giving audiences their first look at the varied cast of characters on the rise in the film industry. With the backdrop of a changing entertainment landscape as silent films give way to talkies, the film takes a broad look at the chaos that ensues as actors, directors, and more scramble to adapt to the new environment. As the trailer indicates, it’s a dive into the wild lives of said creatives and the city and industry they are intertwined with.

The trailer is buzzing with life and jazz, as Robbie’s Hollywood hopeful snorts coke, gets drunk, and causes mayhem with Pitt’s Hollywood star. It’s an unbelievably wild interpretation of a Hollywood of yesteryear and an undeniably fun trip. Babylon wrapped filming back in October 2021 and by all accounts, this project was a massive undertaking for Chazelle and his cast. Bryan Mendoza, one of the crew members on the production, called it one of the harder films he’d been a part of. It’s been a long time coming for Chazelle who said in a recent interview with Vanity Fair that he’s been sitting on the idea ever since he moved to Los Angeles around 15 years ago. He finally got the chance to put pen to paper on the project after completing The First Man back in 2018 with the goal of crafting a love letter to the formative years of modern-day Hollywood. In the years since his move, he’s managed to establish himself as a filmmaker with critical darlings Whiplash and La La Land, thus paving the way for his wide-reaching Old Hollywood tale.