Netflix has dropped the primary trailer for Steve, which can world premiere on the Toronto Movie Competition subsequent month within the Platform strand. Test it out above.

That is Oscar winner Cillian Murphy’s newest starring flip, and likewise is the second characteristic from his and Alan Moloney’s Huge Issues Movies. It would obtain a theatrical launch in choose cinemas on September 19, earlier than dropping on Netflix on October 3. 

Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s 2023 Sunday Occasions bestseller Shy, and twists that story on its axis to be advised from reform faculty headteacher Steve’s perspective. Porter wrote the script and govt produces. Tim Mielants, who just lately helmed Huge Issues Movies’ Small Issues Like These, is director. Murphy and Moloney produce underneath Huge Issues.

The drama is about within the mid-Nineteen Nineties and follows a pivotal day within the lifetime of Murphy’s eponymous character and his college students at a last-chance reform faculty amidst a world that has forsaken them. As Steve fights to guard the varsity’s integrity whereas additionally combating its impending closure, he grapples along with his personal psychological well being. In parallel to Steve’s struggles, troubled teen Shy (Jay Lycurgo) is caught between his previous and what lies forward as he tries to reconcile his interior fragility along with his impulse for self-destruction and violence. 

The movie takes place on a day the place a documentary TV crew is interviewing the kids and the academics. It features in addition to a commentary on the political current, which Porter just lately mentioned with us. Murphy, for his half, advised us the function was “some of the sort of exposing and terrifying characters I’ve ever performed.”

Steve additionally stars Tracey Ullman, Simbi Ajikawo (aka Little Simz) and Emily Watson.