New Nerve Trailer Teases A Daring Movie

 

This year brings us Nerve, which is potentially something quite different from the usual Young Adult adaptations that flow relentlessly into movie theatres. Based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Jeanne Ryan, this film takes a large swipe at the current culture of reality shows, YouTube stars and gaming. Nerve is the name of a fictional online game that allows anonymous viewers to manipulate the actions of players for their own entertainment. High school senior Vee (Emma Roberts) joins the game and finds herself matched with a total stranger named Ian (Dave Franco).
Both players have a large follower count, and embark on increasingly risky dares at the behest of their audience – until events begin to take a dramatic turn.
Also starring Kimiko Glenn, Samira Wiley and Juliette Lewis, Nerve boasts a script by Jessica Sharzer with the directing duo of Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman at the helm. This means that Nerve promises an interesting visual experience, as well as a new direction for Young Adult adaptations.

There is no post-apocalyptic landscape here and the only dystopia on display is the one in which we all currently reside, with its reality show obsessions and descent into a push-pull between greed, fame and the desperation to break the tedious monotony of daily routines. It would seem that these things might be a slippery slope, though, as this preview footage suggests that Vee and Ian discover having anonymous people dictate your actions doesn’t necessarily end well. Nerve is released on July 27th, 2016.