Nicole Kidman is out for revenge as a tormented cop in the first trailer for new movie 'Destroyer'
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Nicole Kidman is almost unrecognisable as a damaged Los Angeles Police Department detective in the first trailer for Annapurna Pictures' new thriller, Destroyer.
The footage, released Wednesday, shows Kidman's character, Erin Bell, haunted by the memory of an undercover operation with a gang in the California desert that ended with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she has to confront her own history.
"I'm mad," she said in the trailer. "I'm still mad. It's burned a circuit in my brain."
Karyn Kusama directed Destroyer from a script by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. The cast also includes Sebastian Stan, Tatiana Maslany, Bradley Whitford, and Toby Kebbell. Fred Berger, Hay and Manfredi are producing.
Destroyer premiered at this year's Telluride Film Festival. In his review for Variety, film critic Peter Debruge gave the thriller high praise, noting Kidman's physical transformation.
"Nothing Nicole Kidman has done in her career can prepare you for Destroyer -- to the extent it's easy to imagine someone wandering/tuning in to the film and watching for several minutes before realising that the sunburnt piece of beef jerky up on screen is none other than the alabaster beauty from BMX Bandits and Far and Away," he wrote.
Destroyer hits cinemas in the US on December 25.
