Yahoo Movies First trailer for Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg's Netflix spy rom-com
Netflix has released the first trailer for Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg's spy rom-com The Union.
The biggest streaming service (but is it the best streaming service? Find out here) has dropped the trailer ahead of its August release, and it has some light spoilers.
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The film casts the duo as former high school sweethearts who reunite decades later, only for Wahlberg's character Mike to be slyly injected as he goes in for a kiss. Waking up in London, he learns that Berry's character Roxanne is a spy, and she needs his help.
Secret agents are being systematically eliminated from a list, and Roxanne and JK Simmons' spymaster character need to train people who are "nobodies yet have street smarts in order to save the world.
The trailer then fast-forwards through Mike's spy training, which he is initially bad at, before becoming more competent and impressing Roxanne.
"Who knew running into your high school sweetheart could lead to a world of espionage?" Berry and Wahlberg wrote when sharing the video to their Instagram pages.
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Beyond our main trio and Simmons, we've got Jessica De Gouw (The Crown), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Suicide Squad), Alice Lee (Brittany Runs a Marathon), Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children), Patch Darragh (Succession), Fahim Fazli (Iron Man), Alex Brightman (Hard Rock Life), James McMenamin (Orange is the New Black), Mike Colter (Luke Cage) and Ben Bishop (The Jungle Book) to round out the cast.
Meanwhile, Giri/Haji's Julian Farino served as the film's director.
The Union will be released on Netflix on August 16. For a list of UK release dates for the rest of 2024, we've got you covered.
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