Amazon MGM Studios has unveiled the first trailer for After the Hunt, a gripping psychological drama from Oscar-nominated director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Challengers), led by Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, and Andrew Garfield.
Set against the backdrop of a prestigious college campus, After the Hunt follows Roberts as a tenured professor whose world is upended when a star student (Edebiri) accuses one of her colleagues (Garfield) of sexual assault—an accusation that threatens to dredge up dark secrets from the professor’s own past.
The tension in the trailer builds quickly. Garfield’s character, Hank, rails against Gen Z’s values—“Your generation is scared of saying the wrong thing”—while Edebiri’s Maggie shoots back, “Maybe it’s around the same time your generation started making sweeping generalizations about ours.”
But things escalate when Maggie appears at her professor’s door, shaken and alleging Hank sexually assaulted her. Meanwhile, Hank accuses Maggie of academic dishonesty, igniting a fierce back-and-forth that puts Roberts’ character at the center of a storm she’s not ready for. “It’s just like, amazing to me that a young Black woman can get assaulted and all these white people find a way to make it about themselves,” Maggie declares in one of the trailer’s most searing moments.
Written by Nora Garrett, the R-rated film doesn’t just confront a campus scandal—it explores how buried guilt, institutional power, and racial dynamics intersect in explosive ways. Guadagnino uses intimate direct-address camera work, reminiscent of Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs, to draw audiences into the characters’ psychological unraveling.
Joining Roberts, Edebiri, and Garfield in the ensemble are Guadagnino regulars Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny. After the Hunt was produced by Guadagnino, Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody, and Allan Mandelbaum, with Garrett, Karen Lunder, Justin Wilkes, and Alice Dawson serving as executive producers.
This marks Guadagnino’s third film in just over a year, following the release of Challengers and Queer—further cementing his streak as one of the most prolific filmmakers working today.
After the Hunt opens in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles on October 10, with a nationwide expansion set for October 17.
Watch the official trailer below.