The Assessment: First Trailer For Acclaimed Sci-Fi Starring Elizabeth Olsen & Alicia Vikander

Magnolia Pictures has debuted the first trailer for their new sci-fi film The Assessment, which you can watch in the player below!

Having debuted at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, as well as playing at the BFI London Film Festival 2024, we finally have our first glimpse of the film, which sees the directorial debut of music video director Fleur Fortune.

The film stars Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), Elizabeth Olsen (His Three Daughters), Himesh Patel (Yesterday) as well as Minnie Driver, Indira Varma, Nicholas Pinnock, Charlotte Ritchie, and Leah Harvey. Directed by Fortune, the film is written by John Donnelly, Nell Garfath Cox, and Dave Thomas.

Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen, Shivani Rawat, Julie Goldstein, Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo, and Grant S. Johnson. Executive producers are Tom Brady, Connor Flanagan, Allen Gilmer, and William Bruce Johnson, who are producers.

Here’s the official synopsis:

In the near future, where parenthood is strictly controlled, a couple’s seven-day assessment for the right to have a child unravels into a psychological nightmare, forcing them to question the very foundations of their society and what it truly means to be human.

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The Assessment will be released in US cinemas on March 21st.

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