The trailer for 'The Circle' is here -- and so is a creepy promotional website
Emma Watson is going to Silicon Valley.
The Harry Potter alum shines in the trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Dave Eggers’ best-selling 2013 novel The Circle.
The film follows Mae (Watson), a recent grad who feels lucky to have been hired to work at The Circle, a Facebook/Google-esque mysterious, wealthy Silicon Valley company that catalogs everything and everyone's personal information.
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Tom Hanks stars as one of the company's leaders, and John Boyega (The Force Awakens) and Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) play two of Mae’s co-workers.
In addition to dropping the trailer, EuropaCorp -- the film's distributor -- quietly also launched an immersive experience on wearethecircle.com.
After you click "join," the website speeds through a terms of agreement. You don't get to read it.
Then comes the accessing of your personal information.
And finally, a song that sings to you "we're watching you" (the same one from the trailer).
Welp.
Knowing everything in this case may not be better.
The film debuts April 28.
Saba was a Los Angeles-based reporter who covers all things digital entertainment, including YouTube, streaming services and digital influencers. Prior to that, she spent two years at the Los Angeles Times covering entertainment for the Calendar and Company Town sections. Saba grew up in Santa Monica and graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in journalism and B.A. in political science. When not reporting, she is usually binge watching shows online or looking for new coffee shops to frequent.
