‘Vengeance’ Trailer: B.J. Novak Satirizes the True Crime Podcast World
variety.comWilson Chapman editorFocus Features has released the first trailer for “Vengeance,” the upcoming directorial debut from “The Office” star B.J.
Novak.Novak stars in the film as Ben Manalowitz, a successful but conceited radio host from New York who flies to Texas for the funeral of Abilene, a girl he hooked up with a few times, after her family mistakenly believes he was her boyfriend.
While in town, Ben is taken under the wing of Abilene’s brother Ty (Boyd Holbrock), who reveals to him that he believes Abilene was murdered, rather than dying from an opioid overdose.Although Ben doesn’t believe Ty’s theory, he agrees to help investigate the murder and produce a podcast about their findings.
Without Ty’s knowledge, however, he actually intends to frame the podcast as a story about how people latch on to conspiracy theories in order to avoid facing reality.
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