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ABOVE THE BELOW
In theaters December 4.
Above the Below, an upcoming survival thriller arrives in theaters December 4. Idris Elba stars in the film and co-directs it with Martin Owen, alongside Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin. It already feels like the kind of tense, high-stakes story that pulls you in from the first scene.
It opens with three astronauts who have already pulled off the unthinkable: they’ve survived a catastrophic disaster in the dead silence of space. The mission is torn apart, they should be gone—and yet somehow, they’re still here.
But survival comes with a brutal twist. Instead of the triumphant hero’s landing you’d expect, they plummet back to Earth, not to a runway or a rescue team, but straight down into the ocean. Past the clouds, past the waves, into the crushing, black depths where light doesn’t reach and nothing makes sense.
Down there, there’s no cheering crowd and no lifeline to mission control—just three people, a failing ship, and an ocean that feels like it’s trying to crush them out of existence.
Peep at the new footage below!
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS: After three astronauts survive a disaster in space, their unscheduled crash landing leaves them trapped in the crushing depths of the ocean with no contact with mission control and oxygen rapidly running out. In a race against time where every breath could be their last, the crew faces impossible choices, mounting odds and new dangers in this pulse-pounding story about what we do when faced with the greatest stakes imaginable. Idris Elba co-directs with Martin Owen and stars in this survival-thriller alongside Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin.
THE CLOCK IS THE ENEMY.
TRAILER TACTCAIL REACTION: What really grabbed me is how much the trailer leans into time as the real villain. Oxygen is running out fast, and every breath feels like a countdown. You can sense that every choice they make could be the one that ends it for good.
Pinned between the pressure above and the pressure below, the crew is forced into those awful, no-win survival decisions—who takes the next risk, who gets the next chance, and who might not make it back.
The environment becomes a character of its own: the hull straining, the water pressing in from all sides, and the feeling that somewhere in that deep, endless dark, something else might be moving with them.
The trailer makes it clear the odds are stacked all the way against them. The ocean doesn’t care who they are or what they’ve already survived. Down here, there’s no rank, no protocol—just raw instinct and the will to hang on a little bit longer.
Idris Elba co-directs with Martin Owen and stars alongside Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin, and the trailer really sells them as a tight, desperate unit. It feels like a relentless survival thriller that hurls you from the emptiness of space straight to the bottom of the sea.
There’s no up. There’s no down. There’s only the question of how far someone will go to stay alive.
ABOVE THE BELOW — IN THEATERS DECEMBER 4.
