Rachel Zegler is not ready to party like it’s 1999 in the trailer for the A24 disaster comedy Year 2000.
Saturday Night Live The outstanding Kyle Mooney directs the film, which hits theaters on December 6th, and follows two high school students who must fight for their lives after crashing a New Year’s Eve party on the last night of 1999. Rounding out the cast are Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, The Kid Laroi, Fred Durst, Mason Gooding, Alicia Silverstone and Mooney.
The trailer shows a lusty party that goes horribly wrong when electronic devices – many of them late 20th century milestones – attempt to destroy humanity. At one point, a character exclaims, “A Tamagotchi just pierced a girl’s head!”
Later in the footage, Martell looks for a silver lining when he tells Zegler, “That was the shittiest night of my life. But it’s cool that we got to hang out for once.”
Mooney (co-author of Brigsby Bear) is his directorial debut from a screenplay co-written with Evan Winter. Producers are Winter, Matt Dines, Alison Goodwin, Jonah Hill, Christopher Storer and Cooper Wehde.
Year 2000 Premiere at South by Southwest in March. In her review for The Hollywood ReporterCritic Lovia Gyarkye wrote, “It’s a film with confident performances – with a particularly strong performance from Julian Dennison – and a handful of sharp twists in search of a better story.”
Zegler last played in the film The Hunger Games – The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesHer upcoming projects include a voice role in the Netflix animated film Banished and the lead role in Disney’s live-action film Snow White.
