Trap

Trap (2024)

Timing: 1:45 (105 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2024-07-31

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Blinding Edge Pictures

Genre

Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Crime

Budget

$30 000 000

Revenue

$83 677 281

Website

https://www.trapthefilm.com

Director

M. Night Shyamalan

Actors

Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Night Shyamalan, Saleka, Alison Pill, Hayley Mills, Jonathan Langdon, Mark Bacolcol, Marnie McPhail, Kid Cudi
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Scenario

M. Night Shyamalan

Producer

Ashwin Rajan, M. Night Shyamalan, Marc Bienstock, Steven Schneider

Operator

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

Composer

Herdís Stefánsdóttir

Artist

Audition

Douglas Aibel, Robin D. Cook

Editing

Noemi Preiswerk
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• M. Night Shyamalan self-finances his own films, so during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA actors' strike, work on the film continued with only a short interruption.
• When M. Night Shyamalan was looking for an actor for the lead role, he met with Josh Hartnett for lunch. When the conversation turned to family and it turned out that they both had three daughters, Shyamalan realized he had found his lead actor.
• The songs in the film were performed as if at a real concert. Thousands of extras participated in the filming, who were not informed about the film but were given recordings of the songs so they could sing along. Josh Hartnett said that many extras comforted him, believing he was nervous, as they didn't know he was in character.
• According to M. Night Shyamalan, the plot of the film was inspired by a joint operation of the U.S. Marshals Service and the Washington, D.C. Police Department on December 15, 1985. As part of this operation, many letters were sent to recipients who were informed that they had won a lottery, with a ticket to an American football game between two popular teams as the prize (getting a ticket to the game was unrealistic). The operation ended with the arrest of 101 fugitives. This was one of the largest mass arrests in U.S. history.
• To film scenes where characters talk to each other, M. Night Shyamalan ordered cameras to be equipped with mirrors reflecting images from another mirror, so that the actors could see close-ups of each other.
• Preparing for the role, Josh Hartnett didn't read newspapers, watch television, or go online, but instead studied psychopathy and read a book about serial killers.