Secret Headquarters Trailer: Iron Man/Batman Meets Spy Kids

Imagine if Batman had an Iron Man go well with, in addition to a son, and that his son and his buddies found the Bat Cave. That’s the final setup of Secret Headquarters, a brand new film coming to Paramount+ on August 12, and the primary trailer is right here.

Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (who lately made the Netflix movie Project Power however got here onto the scene with the documentary Catfish), Secret Headquarters stars Owen Wilson (Loki) because the superhero and Walker Scobell (The Adam Project) as his son. When Dad goes off on a mission, the son finds his “secret headquarters” crammed with cool superhero stuff and all hell breaks unfastened. Here’s the trailer.

I imply come on. It appears like a contemporary Spy Kids besides if, as an alternative of being a spy, the grownup had superhero armor. Plus the supporting solid, from Michael Peña (Ant-Man) and Jesse Williams (The Cabin within the Woods) to Keith L. Williams (Good Boys) and Momona Tamada (The Baby-Sitters Club), is stellar. This film appears like a ton of enjoyable.

But… then all that enthusiasm runs up into an unlucky actuality. Secret Headquarters was initially going to be a theatrical launch. Now, it isn’t. Paramount has been on the cash up to now yr with which of its large motion pictures to carry for theaters it doesn’t matter what (The Lost City, Scream, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Top Gun: Maverick) and which to push to streaming (Coming 2 America, The Tomorrow War). That Secret Headquarters falls into the latter class doesn’t present a whole lot of confidence within the remaining product, wonderful trailer be dammed. Nevertheless, we’re hoping this one lives as much as its potential, which is definitely superheroic.

Secret Headquarters shall be launched on Paramount+ within the U.S. and Canada August 12. It’ll be out later this yr in worldwide territories the place Paramount+ is out there.

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