First Trailer for Chloe Domont’s Pot Boiler Room Thriller ‘Fair Play’ from Netflix

Netflix today revealed the first trailer and new images from Chloe Domont’s debut film, the thriller Fair Play, starring Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story, Oppenheimer). The film will be released in select theaters on September 29 after hitting the Toronto International Film Festival earlier in the month and premiere globally on Netflix on October 13, 2023.

Set not in Hollywood but at a hedge fund in New York (shades of Billions) a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, once supportive exchanges between lovers Emily (Dynevor) and Luke (Ehrenreich) begin to sour into something more sinister. As the power dynamics irrevocably shift in their relationship, the couple must face the true price of success and the unnerving limits of ambition. But Fair Play is not just about the power game, it’s about how such a game is always rigged against women. Domont weaves a taut relationship thriller too, staring down the destructive gender dynamics that pit partners against each other in a world that is transforming faster than the rules can keep up. The film also stars Eddie Marsan, Rich Sommer, and Sebastian De Souza.

Domont, who previously helmed episodes of Showtime’s Billions and HBO’s Ballers, took a page out of her own book for Fair Play with a story rooted in an early time in her film industry career and relationship that provides the building blocks for the twisty power plays at hand in the film, which Netflix scooped up out of Sundance this year after rave reviews for a massive $20M, the biggest sale of the festival. In our review out of Sundance, writer Kevin L. Lee said on the success and strength of its premise and execution, “It’s all thanks to Domont’s subtle direction and dynamite performances from Dynevor and Ehrenreich.”

The film is produced by Leopold Hughes and Ben LeClair for T-Street, Tim White, Trevor White and Allan Mandelbaum for Star Thrower. Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson for T-Street and Chloe Domont and Anđelka Vlaisavljević executive produced. The film is produced in partnership with MRC. 

See poster and watch the trailer below.

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