A first look at star-studded new movie Babylon has been released.

Starring the likes of The Suicide Squad's Margot Robbie, Spider-Man's Tobey Maguire and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's Brad Pitt, the film focuses on 1920s Hollywood.

In the new pictures, we get a sense of the glamour of that time period, with Pitt sporting a pencil moustache and Robbie lying in the sun with a cigarette in her mouth.

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The movie's synopsis reads: "A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood."

Speaking about Babylon, director Damien Chazelle (La La Land) explained to Vanity Fair: "The basic idea was just to do a big, epic, multicharacter movie, set in these early days of Los Angeles and Hollywood, when both of these things were coming into what we now think of them as.

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"Everything is shifting underneath people's feet, and I became really fascinated by the human cost of disruption at that magnitude, at a time when there was no road map, when everything was just new and wild."

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Babylon will see Pitt play an "über-movie star" called Jack Conrad, who is "reaching a point in his life in his career where he's starting to look back and starting to wonder what's ahead".

Robbie plays a "scrappy" aspiring actress called Nellie LaRoy who is suddenly put into the spotlight, while Maguire takes on the iconic Charlie Chaplin.

The movie is also set to star Home and Away's Samara Weaving, Fantastic Beasts' Katherine Waterston, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and The Handmaid's Tale's Max Minghella.

Babylon is set to be released in cinemas in January 2023.

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