Hey, this exists.
"The Awakening," the British conspiracy thriller featuring Kevin Spacey, now has a U.S. release date. Blue Harbor Entertainment will release it on digital and cable platforms on November 24. The tagline: "The Film They Don't Want You to See."
Who's "they," exactly? The Illuminati? The Deep State? Hard to say. The film premiered at Italy's Matera Film Festival on November 10. No reviews have trickled out since then.
The official logline is vague: Jason (newcomer Justin Tinto) and Rebecca (Alice Eve) "uncover a conspiracy to control the world." Coverage of the U.S. deal, however, describes it as a pandemic conspiracy movie. Make of that what you will, especially given the title. Peter Stormare, Steven Berkoff, Julian Glover, Matt Hookings and former World's Strongest Man Eddie Hall round out the cast. Matt Routledge directs from a script by Tinto, Routledge and Hookings.
When Spacey was at Cannes last year, Hookings said that "crossing over film lovers with conspiracy theorists has opened up a hybrid audience that I didn't realize could exist." The film's official site frames the whole thing around one question: "What if the world we were taught to believe… was never the truth?"
My best guess is that the film will be about a pandemic deliberately started by some kind of deep state to control the population. Back in 2024, Tinto said the film carries a "message about the importance of critical thinking and the dangers of believing everything you read or hear."
Tinto wrote, financed and stars in the film, which reportedly took five years to make. A sequel, "The Awakening 2," is already in development.
As for Spacey, this is one of his higher-profile roles since a U.K. jury acquitted him of nine sexual offense charges in 2023. He has mostly worked on smaller European productions since then. Details of his role have yet to be disclosed.
Who's "they," exactly? The Illuminati? The Deep State? Hard to say. The film premiered at Italy's Matera Film Festival on November 10. No reviews have trickled in yet.