Riz Ahmed Is a Father Who Sees Aliens within the Intense Encounter Trailer

In the useless of night time, Malik Khan (Rogue One’s Riz Ahmed) instantly turns up on the house of his younger sons Jay (Lucian-River Chauhan) and Bobby (Aditya Geddada). Though he hasn’t seen them in years, he’s intent on whisking them away on top-secret enterprise. But is the mission—and the implied alien menace behind it—actual, or all in Malik’s head?

That’s the set-up for Encounter, a brand new thriller with sci-fi overtones that’s arriving early subsequent month. The intense new trailer has arrived and it actually couldn’t make the movie’s central battle any extra ambiguous.

The official description can also be intentionally obscure: “A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from a mysterious threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.” In the trailer, we actually see a few of the surreal, wild issues which have satisfied Malik of an extraterrestrial scenario. But are we simply witnessing the attitude of an unreliable, presumably paranoid character—and will all that legislation enforcement simply be pursuing a dad who’s possibly kidnapped his children? Even Malik’s son isn’t certain whether or not to consider his father or not, and it’s clear the intention of the movie is to maintain you guessing.

Ahmed (an Oscar nominee for final 12 months’s Sound of Metal; past the realm of Star Wars, he’s additionally appeared in Venom, Nightcrawler, The OA, and The Night Of) has confirmed himself to be an thrilling actor it doesn’t matter what style he steps into, and Encounter appears to present him one other showcase function. Directed by Michael Pearce (Beast) who co-wrote with Joe Barton (The Ritual), Encounter additionally stars Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and Rory Cochrane (Oculus, Antlers). The movie hits theaters on December 3, then releases on Prime Video December 10.

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