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Official US Trailer for 'What Happened to Monday?' with Noomi Rapace
by Alex Billington
July 31, 2017
Source: YouTube
"What are you waiting for?! Go get her!" Netflix has debuted a new official US trailer for indie sci-fi film What Happened to Monday?, going by Seven Sisters in some countries (we posted another trailer for this film under this name a few months ago). This is set in the near future when governments have enacted a "One-Child Policy", but a family of seven sisters outwits the societal policy by existing in secrecy. Noomi Rapace plays all seven sisters, each with a different identity, and each named for the days of the week - Monday, Tuesday, etc. They go out one-by-one each day pretending they're the same person, and everything seems to be going fine until one day Monday doesn't come home. The cast includes Willem Dafoe, Glenn Close, Robert Wagner, Marwan Kenzari, and Pål Sverre Hagen. I actually saw this movie recently, and it's damn good. It gets a little weird, but entertaining throughout and Rapace is impressive as always.
Here's the new US trailer (+ poster) for Tommy Wirkola's What Happened to Monday?, from YouTube:
In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic One-Child Policy, seven identical sisters (all of them portrayed by Noomi Rapace) live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman. Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home. Seven Sisters is directed by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola, of the films Kill Buljo: The Movie, Dead Snow 1 & 2, and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters previously. The screenplay is written by Kerry Williamson and Max Botkin. Netflix will release Wirkola's What Happened to Monday? streaming exclusively starting August 18th. Interested?
5 Comments
1
I agree, people should have less children. But of course, not by killing them. Anyway, this looks ridiculous, but I'll catch it at some point for fun. And yes, I like the leading actress ...
shiboleth on Jul 31, 2017
2
Noomi was my favorite thing about Prometheus too. She's pretty talented. And Glenn Close always looks "witchy" to me. She's a fine actress...but...yeah...got that witch look going on...
THE_RAW_ on Jul 31, 2017
3
Glen Close is not even close. ;D Is she the gal who played cruella? If so, I can see what you mean.
tarek on Aug 1, 2017
4
This looks....interesting. Kind of a Logan's Run-esque dystopia thing going on. And Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters was actually a lot more enjoyable than I anticipated, so I'll give this a fair shake.
THE_RAW_ on Jul 31, 2017
5
Plenty of zig-zags and feints in this one.
DAVIDPD on Jul 31, 2017
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