If you were paying attention to the exemptions SAG-AFTRA granted to various productions during the strike, one might have stood out to you as particularly strange. That, of course, was Alex Scharfman’s Death of a Unicorn, a horror-comedy in which Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega cause the death of God’s most beloved creature. Wait, is that how the old song goes? We can’t remember. Anyway, it looks spectacularly silly- a Dream Scenario-like combination of solid concept and great talent- and we’re surprised it hasn’t gotten a more significant push in the last few months. The good news is that the marketing department’s woken the fuck up and put out a brand-new trailer for the film on Thursday. Also, it’s got a fantastic poster (glimpsed in the header image above), which undoubtedly has caused a great deal of psychic torment for the hundreds of children who have had the misfortune to walk past it on their way to Dog Man or Paddington in Peru in the last few weeks. That, also, is absurdly funny (mainly because we relate to them- boy, how that would have upset us at five years old).
Peep it:
Here’s a synopsis:
“A father (Paul Rudd) and daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.”
Death of a Unicorn slams into theaters on March 28. Here’s a question: In a universe in which unicorns exist, if you hit one with your car, would standard animal-accident insurance cover the repairs, or would they be considered an act of God? Either way, you’re probably going to get fucked by your insurance company, but it’s nice to know how fucked you’ll be. Hell, it’s probably an add-on.