Mere seconds pass before several people are fired in this first trailer for Amazon Studios’ Late Night, with Emma Thompson as a monstrous boss and talk-show host doing the head-chopping. The assistant-firing Murphy Brown at her most ruthless was compassion incarnated compared to Thompson’s Katherine Newbury.
“Just because I was lucky enough to get this job doesn’t mean I’m stupid enough to lose it,” Kaling’s Molly tells a co-worker.
Late Night was one of the buzziest projects to come out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Deadline broke the story when Amazon landed the pic after an all-night bidding battle. The $13 million deal bested Amazon’s $12 million Sundance buy for The Big Sick.
Directed by Nisha Ganatra, Late Night also stars John Lithgow, Max Casella, Hugh Dancy, Denis O’Hare, Reid Scott, Ike Barinholtz, John Early, Paul Walter Hauser and Amy Ryan.
Late Night hits theaters June 7 via Amazon Studios.
