Beautiful final trailer for "Living" by Oliver Hermanus with Bill Nighy

"No wonder I didn't notice what I was becoming." Sony Pictures Classics has unveiled the latest official US trailer for Living, the remake in English from Akira Kurosawa's beloved 1952 film Ikiru. It's still one of the best films of the year (read my review). We already released the US trailer and a full UK trailer a few months ago. The US release is in December just before the end of the year. Set in 1950s London, Bill Nighy stars as Williams, a grumpy, grumpy government office worker who wakes up when he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He realizes he doesn't really "live" and tries to change that. Also starring Alex Sharp, Adrian Rawlins, Hubert Burton, Oliver Chris, Michael Cochrane and Aimee Lou Wood in a breakout role as Margaret Harris. This beautiful trailer really captures the magic of this film, one of the few remakes that lives up to the original, which is no small feat. Nighy surely deserves an Oscar nomination for this role. I really hope it finds an audience once it opens.

Here's the full official US trailer for Living by Oliver Hermanus, straight from Lionsgate's YouTube:

You can rewatch the US trailer for Living Hermanus here, and the full UK trailer here.

1953. A London shattered by the Second World War is still recovering. Williams (Bill Nighy), a former civil servant, is a helpless cog in the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild itself. Buried under paperwork at the office, alone at home, his life has long seemed empty and meaningless. Then a heartbreaking medical diagnosis forces him to take stock - and try to seize fulfillment before it gets out of hand. Living is directed by acclaimed southern filmmaker -African Oliver Hermanus, director of the films Shirley Adams, Beauty, The Endless River and Moffie previously. The screenplay is written by Kazuo Ishiguro; based on the 1952 film Ikiru, written by Akira Kurosawa & Shinobu Hashimoto & Hideo Oguni. It is produced by Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen. This originally premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (read our review) and it will screen at the Venice Film Festival next September. Sony Classics will then launch Hermanus' Living movie in select US theaters starting December 23, 2022 later this fall. Do you look good?

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