Pillion trailer: Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling discover kink and want

A24 has launched the primary trailer for Pillion, a queer romantic dramedy starring Alexander Skarsgård as a leather-clad biker gang chief and Harry Melling because the timid younger man who turns into his unlikely companion.

Written and directed by Harry Lighton in his function debut, Pillion adapts Adam Mars-Jones’ 2020 novel Box Hill. The story follows Colin (Melling), a shy, awkward younger homosexual man whose life modifications when he meets Ray (Skarsgard), the assured chief of a bike membership. What begins as an opportunity encounter shortly transforms right into a dom-sub relationship, pulling Colin right into a world of queer bikers, leather-based bars, and unconventional intimacy.

The trailer teases their dynamic: Colin and Ray’s flirtatious barroom meet-cute results in scenes of harness fittings, playful wrestling, and blunt directions about intercourse toys. Lighton has described the film as one that ought to “make you snigger, make you suppose, make you’re feeling and make you attractive.” Early evaluations counsel he’s achieved that steadiness.

The movie had its world premiere on the Cannes Film Festival, the place it acquired a seven-minute standing ovation from the Palais viewers. Skarsgard, finest identified for The Northman and Big Little Lies, and Melling, acclaimed for The Queen’s Gambit and The Pale Blue Eye, deliver surprising chemistry to this unconventional love story.

Pillion can be launched in theaters by A24 later this 12 months.