If you’ve ever wanted to see Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell star together as romantic leads in a film, then I’ve got some great news for you. Margot and Colin have a new movie coming out in September called A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. It’s a romantic fantasy about two lonely strangers who meet at a wedding and are later sent on a journey by a magical GPS. It co-stars Kevin Kline, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. This is Margot’s first appearance back on screen since Barbie. The trailer recently dropped, and it looks like it’s going to be a heartwarming, fun ride.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, starring Robbie and Colin Farrell, is in theaters Sept. 19. Sony Pictures released the trailer for the pair’s upcoming movie, which marks Robbie’s first big screen role since she starred in the 2023 smash hit Barbie, and features her and Farrell, 49, taking a wild journey through each other’s lives and memories after they meet at a wedding.
The pair, who play Sarah and David, are brought together further when David’s car GPS instructs him to pick up Sarah and invites the characters to take part in the movie’s titular big bold beautiful journey.
“What if you could open a doorway and walk through it to re-live a defining moment from your past?” reads an official synopsis for the movie. “Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.”
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey comes from After Yang director Kogonada and The Menu screenwriter Seth Reiss. It also stars Jodie Turner-Smith, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Billy Magnussen, Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater.
Robbie was spotted on the movie’s set in April 2024. The Oscar nominee and her husband and Barbie producing partner Tom Ackerley then welcomed their first baby together in November; she has remained largely out of the spotlight since.
A source told PEOPLE last July that Robbie “was super professional and focused” making A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. “No one suspected that she was pregnant… She got along with Colin, and they had fun filming.”
Being brought together by an old GPS system and taken on a fantasy journey? That is one helluva meet cute. It’s crazy that no one knew Margot was pregnant when she filmed it. From what we can see in the trailer, she and Colin have a lot of chemistry together, too. I don’t think the plots are similar at all, but the trailer has this very whimsical feel that reminds me of Big Fish. The whole premise of revisiting memories to understand how they got where they are now is also very Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-coded. (That’s one of my all-time favorite movies.) The part with the GPS being so central to their journey kicking off reminds me of the episode of The Office where Michael Scott drives his car into the lake, lol. I like these types of movies, so I’m planning on seeing it when it comes out.
Here’s the trailer:
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It looks fantastic—kind of had me emotional.
This has nothing to do with the movie but I’ve gotta throw this out there-
Colin Farrell is looking mighty fine these days…
Oh my dear Lord – My 25years of fancying the pants of this man is going to enter the next 25 and him doing a romcom that looks really amazing (not a romcom fan usually) – FML!
I’ll go to the theater for this one. Love both of them!
Colin Farrell. In a romcom? Yes please.
They are both great and I’m very much here for an original story that gives us romance and whimsical storytelling. Looking forward to this.
Were there no women on their 40’s who could have had that kind of chemistry with him? Relationships don’t need to be based on people being the same age but come on Hollywood.
I’m agree with everything you wrote.
This looks really good, and I am looking forward to seeing it. But my first thought when watching the trailer was about their age gap and how frustrated I was knowing they never would’ve cast someone Farrell‘s age to play opposite him.
Exactly! I like Colin and mean no disrespect to his age but Margot is a lot younger than him.
Sad thing is that the 12 year gap between them (34 and 46) is actually in the lower-to-middle range for romantic lead age gaps.
Okay, this looks great! I’m in.
I got so teary watching that trailer, in the best possible way
This looks so adorable!
And they have great on screen chemistry.
Hopefully we’ll see more romcoms on the big screen again
Anything that can make me feel deep rolling 😍 emotions like this preview did…I’M ALL IN❣️
Colin is so damn charming. And Phoebe! I was just wondering what she’s been up to. Sounds like a girls’ night out to the movies!
My husband worked on this movie. They shot it more than a year ago and have been holding it. They are about to do some reshoots this month.
Uh oh. Reshoots often mean the kiss of death.
You had me at Colin Farrell
colin farrell in a romantic movie? YES PLEASE.
This looks fun and quirky and sweet and original. again, YES PLEASE.
Well, I’m just gonna throw this out there, but given how much Colin Farrell and Brad Pitt looked like each other in their younger days it does seem rather clear that Farrell’s less-is-more route on the cosmetic procedures gets better long term results than Pitt’s…more aggressive approach.
That or the fact that Farrell got sober and Pitt never has. Either or. Probably both.
I love Colin and this looks cute, but – his facial hair here is not attractive. Neck beard! *
* probably just me