Rachel Ziegler Fends Off Killer Computers in First Trailer for ‘Y2K’: ‘Bye Bye, Human Race’
Not all machines come in peace. In the trailer for Y2K, man-made devices turn into homicidal machines as the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve 1999.
“Y2K is real,” a partygoer yells in the trailer as hair spray turns into a flamethrower, VCR tapes eject like missiles, and a Tamagotchi saws through someone’s head, leaving a group of teenagers fighting for their lives. “Bye Bye, human race.”
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A24’s Y2K plays into the Y2K bug, or a computer flaw, that caused a panic in the lead-up to the year 2000. The apocalyptic comedy follows friends Eli (Jaeden Martell) and Danny (Julian Dennison), who crash a New Year’s Eve party in the hopes of making a move on Eli’s high school crush, Laura (Rachel Zegler). But after a blackout, the high schoolers must fend off an army of retro devices.
Millions prepared for a mass internet outage on New Year’s Eve, with billions of dollars spent to prevent what they believed to be the inevitable. When computer programs were written in the 1960s, the software thought of years as two digits. So, as year ’99 gave way to ’00, many feared that data would behave as if it were the year 1900 instead of the year 2000.
Y2K imagines a world where the worst did, in fact, happen. “We’re talking global computer apocalypse,” someone says in the trailer.
Kyle Mooney (Saturday Night Live) directed the comedy and co-wrote the script with Evan Winter, while Jonah Hill produced the film. Other cast members include The Kid Laroi, Fred Durst, Lachlan Watson, Daniel Zolghadri, Eduardo Franco, Mason Gooding, Lauren Balone, Tim Heidecker, and Alicia Silverstone.
Y2K hits theaters Dec. 6.
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