The first trailer for Henry Johnson has been released.
Henry Johnson is a new drama movie that is written and directed by David Mamet. It stars Shia LaBeouf, Evan Jonigkeit, Chris Bauer, and Dominic Hoffman.
Check out the Henry Johnson trailer, as revealed by IndieWire, below (watch more trailers and clips):
What happens in the Henry Johnson trailer?
The Henry Johnson trailer sets the stage for a prison drama movie that sees LaBeouf play an inmate named Gene.“Everything is as it seems,” his character says in the footage. “All the cards are in the deck, it just depends on how you cut them.”
The movie, per the official synopsis, is “a drama that follows the title character (Jonigkeit) as he navigates his search for a moral center after an act of compassion upends his life. Looking to authority figures he encounters along the way — including his eventual cellmate, Gene (LaBeouf) —Henry’s journey leads him down a road of manipulation and ethical uncertainty.”
The movie is an adaptation of Mamet’s 2023 play of the same name. Jonigkeit produces the movie alongside Lije Sarki, while RBG, Marcel Bonn-Miller, Sheldon Stone, and Peter Baxter serve as executive producers. Erin Kennedy and Susemiehl serve as co-producers.
A controversial figure due to some of his political stances, Mamet is best known for writing the 1984 Glengarry Glen Ross play, which was turned into a 1992 movie that he also wrote. He has also received Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nominations for writing 1982’s The Verdict and 1997’s Wag the Dog. Mamet made his feature film directorial debut in 1987 with House of Games, though he hasn’t directed a film since a 2013 TV movie called Phil Spector starring Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Henry Johnson will be released on May 9, 2025.
