Photo by A24 – © Nicole Rivelli

A24 has unveiled the trailer for Y2K, a disaster comedy film that is set to premiere on December 6, 2024. Kyle Mooney, a Saturday Night Live alumnus, wrote and directed it.

The studio behind Hereditary, Lady Bird, Moonlight, The Whale and Past Lives is planning to release another film that will explore the themes of disaster and nostalgia with references to the late ’90s and early 2000s.

In the film penned by Evan Winter, the Y2K trailer depicts a New Year’s Eve that went wrong. The film focus on two high school buddies who witness the world fall into massive distraction as a result of a Y2K breakdown as they celebrate the year 2000.

The film stars Rachel Zegler (West Side Story, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) as Laura, Jaeden Martell (Mr. Harrigan’s Phone) as Eli, and Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2) as Danny.

In the trailer, the kids are quick to laugh it off and assume that it might just be a prank when the power goes out at midnight. It’s odd that the madness in Y2K‘s trailer has a resemblance to the real panic that led people to buy toilet paper and water in bulk fearing that a programming error would destroy our technological infrastructure.

The film was produced and financed by A24 and filmed alongside Winter, Matt Dines, Ali Goodwin, and Jonah Hill from Strong Baby (Mid90s), and Christopher Storer, who created The Bear under his American Light & Fixture banner.

Per the official logline: “On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.”

World premiering at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, the film seems to go too far into absurdity and silliness, leaving it a bit of a grating experience when it hits theaters on December 6th.