Sydney Sweeney and Halsey go west in Americana trailer

It's a Euphoria reunion—Eric Dane also stars.

Sydney Sweeney and Halsey go west in Americana trailer

Sydney Sweeney has never, ever been happier than when she received an offer to hunt down a missing artifact for half a million dollars. Now, she has a gun in her hand and a few partners in crime in Halsey and Paul Walter Hauser—at least, she does in the new trailer for Tony Tost’s Americana.

The trio—as well as Simon Rex, Zahn McClarnon, and a fun Euphoria reunion for Sweeney and Eric Dane—are getting their Tarantino on. “A highly prized Native American artifact leads a gallery of dynamic characters down a dangerous path in this wildly entertaining modern-day western,” a synopsis reads. “After the rare relic falls onto the black market, the lives of a small-town woman and her son become violently intertwined with a quirky local diner waitress, an offbeat military veteran, and a corrupt antiquities dealer. Crime and chaos follow when an indigenous group leader and his crew join the fray in order to reclaim the artifact and return it to its rightful place.”

If you feel like you’ve been seeing promo images and other teases for this film for years, you’re not losing it. Americana actually premiered at SXSW back in 2023. It serves as the feature length directorial debut for Tost, already an accomplished TV writer and showrunner for series like Poker Face and Damnation. In an interview with Above The Live around the time of the film’s release, he said the film was “autobiographical in a couple different ways.” 

“One is just simply that’s the stuff I was raised on,” he shared. “I love it… I’m trying to pull some of that iconography, archetypes, the vibes of the stuff that I love [and] that I was raised on, [and] pull it into 2023, warts and all. Not an act of pure nostalgia, but to try to look at it through fresh eyes. I know that there are problematic elements of the old Westerns in terms of who is centered in the stories. I know that there are all these warts in there. There’s a little bit of a revisionist element in there but there’s also just a real love of that kind of storytelling.” 

Americana premieres in theaters August 22.

 
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