New trailer drops for major movie shot in Toronto described by star as 'bizarre'

The latest trailer has dropped for a hotly anticipated major motion picture shot largely in Toronto, one described by its leading star, Josh Hartnett, as "bizarre."

Following the cryptic teaser for writer/director M. Night Shyamalan's Trap back in April, a second trailer for the new thriller dropped on Canada Day.

The new film from one of the hottest writer/directors of the late '90s and early 2000s, known for his mind-bending plot twists in The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, will be set in Shyamalan's hometown of Philadelphia, with Toronto and Hamilton standing in for the U.S. city.

Like the first trailer a few months earlier, the latest preview of the film shows off plenty of familiar landmarks.

Toronto's Rogers Centre plays a pivotal role in the film as the exterior setting of the fictional Tanaka Arena (along with interiors from Hamilton's FirstOntario Centre), where the majority of the movie takes place.

The film, which stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills and Toronto-born Allison Pill, centres around a father and teen daughter attending a pop concert, where things soon take a sinister turn as the pair realize the event is part of a trap to capture a dangerous criminal.

Hartnett has described the movie as "very bizarre" and "very dark."

Pulling back a layer of mystery from the first trailer, the second glimpse at the movie heavily implies that Hartnett's character appears to be the target of the trap.

Toronto wasn't initially set to play a starring role in the movie, as filming was scheduled to shoot in Cincinnati, Ohio, before the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike pushed the production north of the border. Filming began in summer 2023 and wrapped up last October.

Trap will release in theatres on August 2.