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Tessa Thompson Stars in Nia DaCosta’s Ibsen Drama ‘Hedda’ Trailer

by Alex Billington
August 21, 2025
Source: YouTube

“Nothing can wrong tonight, Hedda. Nothing…” But it shall go wrong anyway! Prime Video finally reveals their official trailer for Hedda, the next new film from Nia DaCosta after she made Marvel’s The Marvels (and before she went on to direct 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple which is out next year). Adapted from the Henrik Ibsen play “Hedda Gabler“, DaCosta reinvents the story to tell it from a different angle. Hedda is a provocative, modern reimagining of this classic play. Tessa Thompson stars as the titular Hedda Gabler, who finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life, including feelings for the provocative author Eileen Lovborg. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires & hidden tensions erupt — pulling her and everyone else into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal. “Just a little chaos.” Starring Tessa Thompson, Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, and Nina Hoss. This looks quite good! A ravishing, passionate new take on this story. It will premiere at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival next month before it’s out for streaming later in October.

Here’s the first official trailer (+ poster) for Nia DaCosta’s film Hedda, direct from PV’s YouTube:

Hedda Trailer

Hedda Poster

Intro via TIFF: “Newly wed and precariously dissatisfied with life, Hedda (Tessa Thompson), gun-loving daughter of the late General Gabler, has just convinced her husband George (Tom Bateman), a timid but ambitious scholar, to throw a lavish party the couple cannot afford. On the teeming guest list is Eileen Lovborg (Nina Hoss), a celebrated author of a book exploring sexuality — and also George’s key rival for a coveted academic post. Hedda sees the guests as pawns in an elaborate game she plans to orchestrate with ruthless precision.” Hedda is directed by the acclaimed American filmmaker Nia DaCosta, also director of the films Little Woods, Candyman, and The Marvels, plus episodes of the “Top Boy” series, as well as the upcoming 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. The screenplay is also by Nia DaCosta, adapted from the play “Hedda Gabler” by Henrik Ibsen. Produced by Dede Gardner, Nia DaCosta, Jeremy Kleiner, Gabrielle Nadig, Tessa Thompson. This is premiering at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival this fall. Amazon will then release DaCosta’s Hedda streaming on Prime Video worldwide starting October 29th, 2025. How does that look?

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It wouldn’t be a fall festival season without a few cinematic takes on classic works of theater, and none are more intriguing this year than Nia DaCosta‘s “Hedda.”

The director’s fourth feature is an update on Henrik Ibsen’s classic realist drama “Hedda Gabler,” which documents the inner turmoil of a newly married woman who manipulates a former lover into suicide as a way of numbing the frustration and boredom that she feels from her loveless marriage. The play is considered one of Ibsen’s masterpieces and the title character remains one of the quintessential female roles in the Western theatrical canon.

While it remains to be seen how much DaCosta’s adaptation will stick to the original plot, the film will undoubtedly give Tessa Thompson (who previously starred in DaCosta’s “Little Woods”) plenty of rich material to draw from as she steps into the role of Hedda. The actress will be joined by Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, and Nina Hoss.

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Since breaking out with “Little Woods” in 2018, DaCosta has largely leant her directorial talents to franchises, including the 2021 “Candyman” sequel and the comic book crossover “The Marvels.” Next on her docket is “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” which will serve as the second entry in a new trilogy that began with Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later.” In a recent interview with IndieWire, Boyle explained the unique perspective that DaCosta is bringing to her take on the material.

“I remember asking Nia [about this new trilogy], ‘What do you think it’s about?,’” Boyle said. “It won’t necessarily end up being about this because films change, but I said, ‘What do you think it’s about?’ And she said, ‘Well, I think the first one is about the nature of family. The second one’s about the nature of evil. And the third one is about the nature of redemption.’”

“Hedda” will have its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. Afterwards, Amazon MGM will release the film in select theaters on Wednesday, October 22 and then globally on Prime Video on Wednesday, October 29. Watch the trailer below.