Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for Alexandre Aja’s long-in-development thriller Oxygen starring Mélanie Laurent (6 Underground, Inglorious Basterds) as an amnesiac racing against time to save her own life.
Written by Christie LeBlanc, the film tells the story of a young woman, who wakes up in a cryogenic pod. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up there. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare.
Alongside Laurent, the cast for the isolated thriller includes Mathieu Amalric and Malik Zidi When the film was first announced as being in development under the title O2 in July 2017, Anne Hathaway had signed on to star in the central role and produce the project, but as it languished in development hell, she would eventually depart and Noomi Rapace signed on to replace her in early 2020 and Aja signing on as producer. A few months later, Aja would elect to step into the director’s chair, replacing Franck Khalfoun, and Laurent signed on to replace Rapace with Amalric and Zidi.
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