Hulu has released the official trailer for the upcoming 20th Century Studios feature, “Darby and the Dead,” which is set to debut on the streaming platform on December 2, 2022.
The film stars Riele Downs as Darby Harper, who, after suffering a near-death experience as a young girl, gains the ability to see dead people. As a result, she becomes introverted and shut off from her high school peers and prefers to spend time counseling lonely spirits who have unfinished business on earth. But all that changes when Capri (Auli’i Cravalho), the Queen Bee of the school’s most exclusive clique, unexpectedly dies in a freak hair straightening accident, resulting in the obvious cancellation of her upcoming “Sweet 17.” Capri, however, pleads with Darby from the other side to intervene and convince Capri’s friends to proceed with the party as planned. To appease the wrath of the undead diva, Darby must emerge from her self-imposed exile and reinvent herself — which along the way, allows her to find new joy back in the land of the living.
Rounding out the film’s cast is Chosen Jacobs, Asher Angel, Wayne Knight, with Derek Luke and Tony Danza. Silas Howard directs the film from a screenplay by Becca Greene based on a story by Wenonah Wilms.
