A24's 'Y2K' Throws It Back to New Year's Eve 1999
The new disaster-comedy film hits theaters next month.
A24 is tapping into the nostalgia for the 1990s in its next disaster-comedy endeavor. Aptly entitled Y2K, the first trailer for the forthcoming film from the production studio takes us back to Y2K’s infamous turn of the century, immersing us in 1999’s ever-so-existential New Year’s Eve.
Per the Kyle Mooney-directed film’s official logline, “On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Year’s Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.”
The trailer begins with Bill Clinton’s Y2K address, as he opens “Ladies and gentlemen, we are releasing our final report on the Y2K computer problem.”
Viewers are then transported to a classic late-90s house party, with attendees including Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison and Rachel Zegler. As chaos ensues and trepidation increases among partygoers, chopped clips of Clinton’s speech are interspersed throughout, among other nostalgic 1990s’ footage.
“Party like its 1999,” reads a message on the screen, followed by “Die like it’s Y2K.”
“You think they’ll still have graduation?” a partygoer wonders at the end of the minute-long first look.
Watch the trailer for Y2K in the gallery above and catch the flick in theaters on December 6.
