Save the date — April 3, 2026 — because A24’s The Drama is officially on the calendar. The studio released the film’s first trailer, giving audiences their earliest look at Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as an engaged couple whose picture-perfect wedding week spirals into something far messier.
Written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, the film follows Emma Harwood (Zendaya) and Charlie Thompson (Pattinson), two soon-to-be newlyweds whose nerves start showing long before they reach the altar. The trailer opens with the pair posing for pre-wedding photos, their stiff, uneasy smiles betraying the tension simmering underneath. As a photographer prompts them to list their favorite things about each other, a montage cuts between their domestic highs and uncomfortable lows — including a sharp slap mid-intimacy that hints the vibe here is far from rom-com sweet.
From there, the teaser pivots into chaos: Mamoudou Athie raising a toast at the wedding, an alarm blaring in a dark hallway, Pattinson’s Charlie hurling a chair, and Zendaya’s Emma downing a drink straight from the bottle. “Just some drama,” Charlie mutters on a street — an understatement that sets the film’s tone.
The Drama also stars Athie, Alana Haim and Hailey Gates, with producer Ari Aster joining Borgli to shepherd a story that seems less Father of the Bride and more relationship thriller wrapped in glossy wedding aesthetics. Borgli’s previous films — from Sick of Myself to Dream Scenario — are known for leaning into the uncomfortable, and this trailer suggests he’s taking that sensibility into nuptial territory.
A24 also leaned into the bit with a cheeky marketing stunt: a faux Boston Globe engagement announcement introducing Emma and Charlie as if they were real locals preparing for “the wedding of the year.” The notice included character backstories — Emma as an English major from Boston University, Charlie as a Cambridge art museum director with a Ph.D. — and subtly nodded to the film’s April 3 release date. It’s the kind of playful, reality-bleeding promo move that has become something of an A24 signature.
Zendaya teased the film earlier this week with the official poster: the actress nestled against Pattinson, flashing an engagement ring and captioning the photo, “THE DRAMA. Formal invitation to follow.”
With its uneasy smiles, brittle romantic surface and hints of something darker lurking beneath, The Drama is shaping up to be a wedding movie that refuses to play by tradition. The film arrives in theaters nationwide on April 3, 2026.