Everyone’s out for themselves in Leave the World Behind’s new trailer

A woman in a party dress and a man dressed in a tuxedo. The pair are sitting on a bed in a dim but wamly lit bedroom, and their faces are illuminated with blue light radiating from the television in front of them.

Mahershala Ali as G.H. and Myha’la as Ruth. | Image: Netflix

Most people like to think of themselves as having some sort of game plan ready in the event that apocalyptic things start going down. But in the new trailer for Netflix’s upcoming film Leave the World Behind, from director Sam Esmail, a lack of planning seems to be a big part of what has everyone running scared.

Based on Rumaan Alam’s 2020 novel by the same name, Leave the World Behind tells the story of two families who unexpectedly find their fates intertwined just as a massive blackout shuts down most of the Eastern Seaboard’s power grid. When Amanda (Julia Roberts) and her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke) rent a house in Long Island, they assume they’ll be able to get out of the city for a much-needed quiet weekend vacation with their...