Steve trailer: Cillian Murphy leads Netflix drama as reform college headteacher

Netflix has unveiled the trailer for Steve, a drama starring Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy because the headteacher of a struggling reform college. Based on Max Porter’s 2023 novel Shy, the movie follows a decisive day within the lifetime of Steve, a person preventing to maintain his establishment alive whereas confronting his personal psychological well being struggles.

The story unfolds in opposition to the backdrop of a “last-chance” college for college students who’ve been failed by conventional training techniques. Alongside Steve’s struggle to guard the college from closure, the movie introduces Shy, performed by Jay Lycurgo (Generation Z, The Batman), a troubled teenager torn between his violent impulses and a want for redemption.

The forged additionally options Tracey Ullman (The Actor), Simni Ajikawo (Top Boy, Venom: Let There Be Carnage), and Emily Watson (The Legend of Ochi, Dune: Prophecy).

Steve reunites Murphy with a number of previous collaborators. He beforehand labored with director Tim Mielants on Peaky Blinders and the 2024 drama Small Things Like These. Murphy additionally has a historical past with Porter, starring in a 2019 stage adaptation of the writer’s Grief Is the Thing With Feathers and showing of their 2021 quick movie All of This Unreal Time.

The screenplay is written by Porter, who additionally serves as an government producer. The movie is produced by Alan Moloney, Murphy, and Tina Pawlik, with a rating by Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow.

Steve will premiere in choose U.S. theaters on September 19 earlier than its Netflix launch on October 3.