Don’t Worry Darling Trailer Has Florence Pugh Going Insane

Florence Pugh has a lot of interesting upcoming films like Dune: Part Two and Oppenheimer, but she’s also teamed up with director Olivia Wilde for a bonkers-looking film called Don’t Worry Darling.

A new trailer for the movie has dropped, and it has Pugh slowly falling into her own circle of madness. Watch this:

Here’s the official story description:

Alice (Pugh) and Jack (Styles) are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. The 1950’s societal optimism espoused by their CEO, Frank (Pine)—equal parts corporate visionary and motivational life coach—anchors every aspect of daily life in the tight-knit desert utopia.

While the husbands spend every day inside the Victory Project Headquarters, working on the “development of progressive materials,” their wives—including Frank’s elegant partner, Shelley (Chan)—get to spend their time enjoying the beauty, luxury and debauchery of their community. Life is perfect, with every resident’s needs met by the company. All they ask in return is discretion and unquestioning commitment to the Victory cause.

But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why. Just how much is Alice willing to lose to expose what’s really going on in this paradise?

The plot pretty much feels like an update on the classic Stepford Wives story, complete with the 1950s aesthetic and subservient women, but it also does have an arthouse element to it—something I wasn’t expecting from Wilde, who had directed the comedy Booksmart.

If anything, Pugh is a fantastic actress, and it’s going to be interesting watching her go up against a character like Chris Pine. What are the odds that it’s actually Olivia Wilde’s character who’s pulling the strings?

Don’t Worry Darling comes to theaters on Sept. 23.