In the Hand of Dante — A trailer for a curious movie of big actors

What? Oscar Isaac doesn’t have an Oscar yet? You’ll find nothing mainstream about the trailer for Julian Schnabel’s new movie In the Hand of Dante, coming to Netflix next month. Based on a 2002 novel by Rolling Stone writer Nick Tosches, the movie sports a trailer that reveals very little–a black and white future and color past intertwined with the lead character in both places. If self-indulgent dramas stuffed with a cast of big aka expensive actors that take up the budget isn’t your thing, you probably want to turn away. Oscar Isaac, star of Frankenstein, Ex Machina, Moon Knight, Star Wars, and Dune plays the late author of the book the movie is based on, experiencing an existential crisis as he follows an original copy of Dante’s The Divine Comedy that somehow finds itself in the hands of the mob in New York. The trailer looks like a Dan Brown novel mash-up with a Wes Anderson movie like The Phoenician Scheme.

The good news is the movie is coming to Netflix, and it co-stars Al Pacino, John Malkovich, Gerard Butler, Jason Momoa, Franco Nero, and Gal Gadot (apparently the only woman), with the latest quirky acting cameo by director Martin Scorsese. So you’ll get the chance to decide for free with your Netflix subscription. But Oscar Isaac movies are usually fun enough to just show up to watch Isaac do his often intense, usually emotional, frequently frenetic thing. Check out this trailer for In the Hand of Dante: