Sean Bean's new Northern-set drama Anemone has dropped a first trailer.

The "mysterious" new movie will feature the Game of Thrones actor alongside Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, who returns to the screen after eight years away.

Ahead of its release in October in the US and November in the UK, a first proper look at the film has been unveiled in the tense trailer, which you can watch above.

Co-written by Day-Lewis alongside his son Ronan, the latter of whom also directs, Anemone looks at "the complex and profound ties that exist between brothers, fathers, and sons".

"Anemone begins as a middle-aged man (Bean) sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother (Day-Lewis)," a synopsis (via NYFF) previously explained.

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"Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally tender relationship – one that was forever altered by shattering events decades earlier."

The movie also stars Somewhere Boy's Samuel Bottomley, The Lazarus Project's Safia Oakley-Green and The Walking Dead's Samantha Morton.

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"We could not be more excited to partner with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator," Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski previously said.

"They have written a truly exceptional script, and we look forward to bringing their shared vision to audiences alongside the team at Plan B."

Anemone will be released in US cinemas on 3 October, and is set for release in UK and Irish cinemas on 7 November.


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