Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield Play Professors Caught in a Campus Scandal in ‘After the Hunt’

The first trailer for After the Hunt has dropped, and it’s clear Julia Roberts is headed for the eye of the storm. In Luca Guadagnino’s latest psychological drama, she plays a respected professor whose steady career is suddenly thrown into chaos when a scandal unfolds on campus.

Andrew Garfield plays Hank, a fellow professor with an axe to grind and an outdated view of the world. “All your generation, you’re scared of saying the wrong thing,” he says in the trailer. His student, played by Ayo Edebiri, doesn’t flinch: “Maybe it’s around the same time your generation started making sweeping generalizations about ours?” That sharp exchange sets the tone for what’s to come, a generational, moral, and personal clash that refuses to play fair.

When Maggie (Edebiri) turns up at Roberts’ doorstep, shaken and accusing Hank of sexual assault, the narrative splinters. Hank claims she plagiarized. Maggie says she’s a victim. The truth is slippery, the stakes sky-high, and Roberts’ character is caught between her past and a present that’s burning fast.

“It’s just like, amazing to me that a young Black woman can get assaulted and all these white people find a way to make it about themselves,” Maggie says at a pivotal point in the trailer. That line doesn’t just sting it demands attention.

Guadagnino has described the film as a modern reflection on power, consent, and the widening gulf between generations. He’s said it’s provocative, but not for provocation’s sake, more like a scalpel than a hammer. The setting might be academic, but the tension is anything but theoretical.

Julia Roberts, according to the director, delivers what he calls the finest performance of her career. Garfield, long eager to collaborate with Guadagnino, has called the filmmaker “a radical artist” and said at CinemaCon that working with him was “a dream come true.”

After the Hunt hits theaters in New York and LA on October 10, with a wider release on October 17. With its razor-sharp dialogue and loaded themes, this one’s not here to coddle anyone and that’s exactly the point. You can watch the trailer below.

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