OMNI LOOP Trailer (2024) Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri

OMNI LOOP Trailer (2024) Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri

OMNI LOOP Trailer (2024) Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, Drama, Sci-Fi Movie
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"Let's solve time travel." Okay, sure, let's do it! Magnolia Pictures has revealed the official trailer for a sci-fi comedy called Omni Loop, the latest feature film by Brazilian writer / director Bernardo Britto, who most recently was writing episodes of "Los Espookys". This initially premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, and it's set to arrive to watch (on VOD) in September this fall. A 55-year-old woman from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be. One day she meets Paula, a young woman studying time at a lab in the local university, and together they decide to try and solve time travel so Zoya can actually go back— back into her past, back to a time before she settled, back to when her whole future was still wide open in front of her. With Mary-Louise Parker as Zoya and Ayo Edebiri as Paula, Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, and Carlos Jacott. The film has only positive reviews on RT so far, stating it's "ingenious but surprisingly heartfelt sci-fi." It's worth a look.

Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Bernardo Britto's film Omni Loop, from Magnolia's YouTube:

Omni Loop Trailer

Omni Loop Trailer

Omni Loop follows Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker), a quantum physicist who is stuck in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. But what the doctors and her family don’t know is that she has already lived this week before; so many times, in fact, that she doesn’t even know how long it’s been. Until one day Zoya meets a gifted student named Paula (Ayo Edebiri). Together they team up to save her life – and to unlock the mysteries of time travel. Omni Loop is both written and directed by Brazilian indie screenwriter / filmmaker Bernardo Britto, director of the film Jacqueline Argentine, plus a few other short films; and a writer on the series "Fired on Mars" & "Los Espookys". Produced by Benjamin Cohen, Patrick Donovan, and David Hinojosa. The film initially premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival earlier this year. Magnolia Pictures will debut Britto's Omni Loop in select US theaters + on VOD starting September 20th, 2024 coming soon this fall. For more info, visit the film's official site. Who's intrigued?
“Groundhog Day,” but make it about an inescapable terminal illness. In writer/director Bernardo Britto’s “Omni Loop,” Mary-Louise Parker plays a quantum physicist who learns she has only a week to live. Except she learns that many times over, and as she says in the trailer, “This has happened before. Many times.” IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for “Omni Loop,” which premiered at SXSW and will hit theaters from Magnolia this fall, below.

Here’s the official synopsis: “A quantum physicist (Mary-Louise Parker) finds herself stuck in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. When she meets a gifted student (Ayo Edebiri), they team up to save her life — and to unlock the mysteries of time travel.”

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The cast also includes Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, Carlos Jacott, Harris Yulin, Steven Maier, and Eddie Cahill.

At SXSW, Mary-Louise Parker was praised for carrying the heavier emotions of the movie as a woman faced with the totality of death. “Omni Loop” isn’t far from some of the “Weeds” star’s best stage work in that sense, from playing a mathematician struggling with mental illness in “Proof” or a terminally sick Ivy League professor who decides to take her own life in “The Sound Inside.” Except, of course, “Omni Loop” is also a sci-fi comedy, which means we have “The Bear” and “Bottoms” star Ayo Edebiri to help bring a comic lightness to the proceedings.

From IndieWire’s review out of SXSW: “Writer-director Bernardo Britto’s latest is one of those lo-fi sci-fi movies that weaves the impossible into the mundane texture of everyday life — which tracks with his previous work, which includes a tenure as a staff writer on ‘Los Espookys‘ and the 2016 mockumentary ‘Jacqueline Argentine.'”

Magnolia Pictures will release “Omni Loop” in theaters and on digital September 20, 2024. Watch the exclusive trailer below.

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In the sci-fi drama 'Omni Loop,' a physicist named Zoya is stuck in a time loop due to a black hole in her chest.
Co-stars Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri discuss the attraction to a high-concept story with deep human elements and the brilliance of director Bernardo Britto.
The film explores complex character dynamics and the cyclical nature of life, with themes of time travel and self-discovery.
From writer/director Bernardo Britto, the sci-fi drama Omni Loop follows Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker), a quantum physicist with a black hole growing in the middle of her chest that will kill her in a week. But after getting this news, Zoya finds herself in a loop where she’s reliving that week, over and over again. When she meets Paula (Ayo Edebiri), a student in the physics department of the university she attended, the two attempt to unlock the mysteries of time travel, so that Zoya can go back even further in time to have a more lasing effect.

During this interview with Collider, the co-stars talked about why they were attracted to this small human story with a high concept, making sense of life by making sense of death, the deep humanity of Britto, how quick and easy their chemistry was, and why Edebiri says Parker is on the Mt. Rushmore of acting. Edebiri also shared how impactful the experience of directing an episode of Season 2 of The Bear was for her.

Co-Stars Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri Loved the Human Story in 'Omni Loop's High Concept
Mary-Louise Parker as Zoya Lowe and Ayo Edebiri as Paula looking at a computer in a lab in Omni LoopImage via Magnolia Pictures
Collider: I was completely drawn in by this film. It seems like it’s a quiet human story, but this big concept of time travel to avoid death makes it very tricky and quite an emotional journey. When this came your way, what did you guys most connect with? Was it something in particular about the story? Was it something specific about the characters you were playing? What was it that really grabbed you with this?

AYO EDIBIRI: For me, there was the high concept, but what drew me in and connected me was the small human story and this woman who was trying to make sense of life by making sense of death. I found that really moving and universal in its specificity. And I was just really moved by the writing, and then getting to meet (writer/director) Bernardo [Britto], and then getting to know Mary-Louise [Parker]. Knowing that would all be a part of the process was just icing on the beautiful cake that was the script.

MARY-LOUISE PARKER: In some ways, the script is so representative of who Bernardo is. It’s so layered and it has these really oddly placed hilarious moments that you’re not expecting, but it’s mostly so soulful and so searching and so profound, in ways where you think it’s one layer, and it’s actually so many more. The script just kept unfolding for me. He’s so brilliant and he’s so kind. He also had to re-explain it to me several times because his intellect is on some other level, the way he understood the story and the way he was trying to tell it.

Mary Louise Parker as Zoya Lowe and Ayo Edebiri look at a computer in a lab in Omni Loop.
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It feels like a very personal story for him, in a way that makes me want to understand where it came from.

PARKER: He’s everything you want him to be, especially for a man of that age. He’s really unusual. You should meet him. He’s great. He’s really so smart. I saw his animated movies first, and I was so knocked out by them. He narrated the first one that I saw, and I found his voice so compelling. You could tell that this is just a person who has some other level of deep humanity.

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Ayo Edebiri as Paula looking concerned in Omni LoopImage via Magnolia Pictures
Because Zoya continues to repeat the same five days, you guys both had to relive a lot of the same moments, just in different ways. What was that like to do and to continue to find? How did you find the experience of having your characters continue to meet while only one of them remembers it? It’s an unusual character exercise.

EDIBIRI: Yeah, it’s stuff Meisner would have dreamed of. It was fun, though. Mary-Louise is on the Mt. Rushmore of acting. She’s fucking great. You just discover new moments, all the time. That’s part of [her] magic. It’s always new and fresh and thrilling. I was like, “Oh, this is boot camp on how to be present.”

PARKER: Oh, God!

EDIBIRI: It’s true! That’s what the movie’s about. I feel like you brought that out of me. I’m not just saying that. From the very first time [Bernando] said, “Let’s get Ayo on Zoom,” I was so nervous because I admired [Mary-Louise] a lot. He was like, “No, she’s really funny.” And she was so hilarious. But then, he was like, “Okay, we’re gonna say bye.” And I was like, “Does she have to go?” It was almost the same, in a way, as the story.

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PARKER: It was the kind of symbiosis that was really easy and really unexplainable.

EDIBIRI: It was like, “Have we done this before?” As far as we know, no. But I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe there’s another universe and another life.

PARKER: On the first day, I gave [Ayo] a tiny script. Because I’m not smart enough, I wasn’t even thinking that what I was writing mirrored the story. I gave her this tiny script and I predicted what was gonna happen. I said, “You’re gonna see mine when I whip it out, you’re gonna want one, and I’m gonna be the genie that hands you your own.” I wasn’t thinking, “Wow, that’s what the story is.” I was like, “I’m gonna tell you what’s gonna happen.” That would happen, and I wasn’t really absorbing that it was the story and not just the actual chemistry.

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Ayo, you did such beautiful work as a director on The Bear for Season 3. What did you learn about yourself, as a director, from actually making that leap and doing it? Do you feel like you can self-reflect enough to learn from that experience, or do you learn more from working with someone like Bernardo Britto on a film like this?

EDIBIRI: I don’t believe in learning more or less. If you’re open to it, it’s all gonna be deeply impactful. I’ve just been really fortunate, in the past few years, to work with people who are so beyond talented, but also good human beings. That’s also a situation where I’m like, “Well, if I’m sleepwalking through that, I’m just wasting the one life I’ve got.” I think it gave me a bit of gratification that the amount of questions I ask and my general nosiness doesn’t just come from nowhere. It can be useful in certain situations. I also just gained a lot of appreciation. Sometimes when you are acting, you can be so in character with the other person that you can get in a little bubble. It was a chance to zoom out and see, “Wow, this whole operation is amazing and insane. What our crew does is amazing and insane.”

I would sometimes ask Liza [Colón-Zayas] to do something where I’d be like, “I don’t know if I could do this, but I think you can.” And she would and would exceed my expectations and just blow my mind. It really just gave me such a massive appreciation of that miracle and the machine that is making work with other people. Everybody is an individual with their own thoughts and their own ideas and questions and experiences, and we can all come together and make one vision. You all reach it together, which is a really special thing. It’s crazy that it happens over and over again. Sometimes it doesn’t. So, when it does, it just makes you really grateful for it.

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I loved watching the two of you together in this. So now, Ayo, you should write and direct something that you can orchestrate to be in together again.

EDEBIRI: Listen, your lips to God’s ears. I want it.

Omni Loop 2024 Film SXSW Promo Image
Omni Loop
Sci-Fi
Drama
A woman from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to.

Release Date
March 13, 2024
Director
Bernardo Britto
Cast
Mary-Louise Parker , Ayo Edebiri , Carlos Jacott , Harris Yulin , Hannah Pearl Utt , Chris Witaske , Steven Maier , Maddison Bullock
Runtime
107 Minutes
Writers
Bernardo Britto
We’ve seen the narrative conceit bolted on to almost every genre imaginable at this point, but it’s an idea that still feels fresh even though the decades since 1993’s Groundhog Day have given us Edge Of Tomorrow, Palm Springs, Happy Death Day, Source Code and more. There’s a whole range of genres in that list alone and the list of time loop movies goes way beyond that smattering of titles.

Get set for another entry in the genre, with the arrival of Omni Loop in September. The film premiered at South by Southwest in March of this year. Ahead of the film’s release in the US next month, we now have a trailer to enjoy. The Bear's Ayo Edebiri and Weeds’ Mary-Louise Parker lead the cast, whilst Bernando Britto writes and directs.

Here’s the synopsis:

The story follows a jaded quantum physicist (Parker) who finds herself stuck in a time loop thanks to a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. But when she meets a gifted student (Edeibiri), there’s a chance to save her life – and also potentially unlock the mysteries of time travel. At the same time, the loops force the physicist to look back on her life and regrets and try and potentially resolve things left unsaid.

There’s no specified release date for the UK yet, nor do we know what manner of release the film will be getting. Still, it’s sure to arrive in some shape or form in the near future so if you’re a fan of the time loop genre, keep an eye out. You can catch the trailer below.
What would you do if you only had a week to live? Well, in “Omni Loop,” you go back in time and relive the same five days over and over again.

As seen in the trailer, “Omni Loop” is about a quantum physicist who takes a pill that sends her back in time to a week before she is supposed to die. She then teams up with a student to help solve her health crisis and save her life. Apparently, having a black hole growing in your chest isn’t the greatest thing in the world.

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“Omni Loop” looks like an original, heartfelt sci-fi drama, which is saying something nowadays. We’ve seen time-loop films before, such as the classic “Groundhog Day” and the slasher “Happy Death Day,” but this film looks like perhaps it takes a more humanist approach to the fantastical elements.

The film stars Mary-Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, Carlos Jacott, Harris Yulin, Steven Maier, and Eddie Cahill. “Omni Loop” is written and directed by Bernardo Britto. The filmmaker previous worked on the feature “Jacqueline Argentine.”

“Omni Loop” is set to debut in select theaters and on VOD on September 20.

Here’s the synopsis:

A quantum physicist (Mary-Louise Parker) finds herself stuck in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. When she meets a gifted student (Ayo Edebiri), they team up to save her life – and to unlock the mysteries of time travel.

Ayo EdebiriMary-Louise ParkerOmni Loop
Sci-fi comedy Omni Loop, starring Ayo Edebiri & Mary-Louise Parker, receives praise and a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The film explores time travel and emotional depth, drawing comparisons to About Time.
Edebiri and Parker have exciting projects ahead, with Omni Loop set to release on September 20 in theaters and digitally.
Ayo Edebiri seems to be everywhere these days, and now she is traveling across time and space alongside Mary-Louise Parker in the first trailer for Magnolia Pictures' Omni Loop. The film, directed by Bernardo Britto, features a team-up between Edebiri and Parker as they work to discover the facets of time travel while trying to stop Parker's character from dying. The film is the latest in a long line of projects for Edebiri, who has become one of Hollywood's most in-demand stars.

The trailer shows off a quantum physicist, Zoya (Parker), who finds herself stuck in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live, according to a synopsis from Magnolia. When she meets a gifted student, Paula (Edebiri), they team up to save her life — and to unlock the mysteries of time travel. "I've done this before," Zoya is seen saying in the trailer. "Tomorrow night, I take a pill and I go back a week." She is seen to be able to tell the future down to knowing the number of fingers Paula is holding up and when her cat will meow.

While clearly a sci-fi comedy, Omni Loop also seems to have elements of drama as well. The film also stars Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, Carlos Jacott, Harris Yulin, Steven Maier, and Eddie Cahill. It was directed by Britto from a self-written screenplay, and produced by David Hinojosa for 2AM, Patrick Donovan, and Ben Cohen.

'Omni Loop' Has Been Well-Received
The people that have seen Omni Loop so far seem to have liked it. The film currently has a rare 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 11 reviews. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest this past March. Collider's Chase Hutchinson said in his review that Omni Loop was a "more melancholic work of reflection that hits home when you least expect it to." He added of the film, "What proves to be the most unexpected, yet joyous part of the experience is how it brings into focus its greatest emotional beats right before it draws to a close," comparing it to the 2013 sci-fi dramedy About Time.

Both Parker and Edebiri have been keeping busy after filming Omni Loop. Parker was most recently heard in the animated film Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp, and will have a leading role in the upcoming television Stephen King series The Institute. Edebiri, best known for her breakout role in the FX series The Bear, will be seen in a pair of high-profile films: the horror flick Opus alongside John Malkovich, as well as the film After the Hunt alongside Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield.

Omni Loop will be released in theaters and digitally on September 20. The film's trailer can be seen above.