Apple TV+ unveils the official The Afterparty trailer showing Tiffany Haddish as a detective investigating a murder at a high school reunion. The show centers on a group of people coming together for the high school reunion where a celebrity alumnus is killed at his grandiose mansion by someone in attendance of the titular celebration. Haddish's detective attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery in The Afterparty by interviewing the potential suspects, who offer their own versions of the night's events.
Haddish leads the ensemble cast of The Afterparty alongside Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao, Ben Schwartz, Ike Barinholtz, Ilana Glazer, Jamie Demetriou and Dave Franco. Development on the series has been in the works for nearly a decade now, beginning as a film from creative duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller at Sony Pictures with Miller solely writing and directing, though it would languish in development hell. The 21 Jump Street team would later partner with Apple TV+ for an eight-episode straight-to-series order for The Afterparty in mid-2020 with Miller serving as the showrunner and executive producer alongside Lord and filming occurring from November 2020 to February 2021.
A month after unveiling the first teaser for the series, Apple TV+ has released the official The Afterparty trailer. The video sees Tiffany Haddish's Detective Danner as she attempts to get to the bottom of a murder mystery that took place at a high school reunion. Check out the funny new trailer below:
The new The Afterparty trailer offers a better look at the latest genre-bending comedy from Lord and Miller, namely the shifts in style the series will undergo with each character's perspective. The video teases everything from a stylish action approach with Ike Barinholtz's bad boy to a neo-noire black-and-white look for Sam Richardson's resident nice guy Aniq and a grand musical for Ben Schwartz's Yasper. The trailer points towards the series bringing a wild new take to the multi-perspective storytelling Akira Kurosawa made famous with Rashomon in 1950.
The Afterparty comes at a time in which the murder mystery whodunnit genre is enjoying a revived popularity amongst audiences. Creatives have brought the genre back on both the big and small screens with such hits as Knives Out and Game Night as well as Hulu's smash series Only Murders in the Building, which is currently working on season 2 set to premiere sometime in 2022. Audiences won't have to wait for long for the next likely hit in the genre as The Afterparty is set to hit Apple TV+ on January 28.
Source: Apple TV+