Up until this Tuesday morning, we were pretty curious (and extremely unsure) about what filmmaking duo Daniels would do for their next project, because, well, Swiss Army Man is a pretty goddamn hard act to follow up on. That’s essentially the million-dollar question: you endeared a farting corpse to an entire generation of loveable indie kids, and how exactly do you continue down that path, knowing that very little you ever could possibly do could equal that triumph. Well, the answer is this: you get in touch with your boys at A24 and make a sci-fi kung-fu comedy about Michelle Yeoh doing her taxes. Yes, that was a sentence you just read. The film’s called Everything Everywhere All At Once, and A24 just dropped a trailer for the project. Go ahead and get your googly-eyes ready, folks, because you’re going to want to put them on after you watch it.
Take a look:
Here’s a short synopsis that basically covers all you’re gonna get from the SXSW program as well (what can we say, they want you to see the movie semi-fresh or at least watch the damn trailer):
“Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes.”
Everything Everywhere All At Once will have its world premiere at SXSW in March before it takes up residence your local arthouse — and hell, it’s A24, so it’ll probably go to multiplexes as well — later that month on March 25. We’re gonna go rip a couple of real stankers in the foot care section at a Walgreens in honor of the Daniels now just to see how quickly we can clear the place out.