Remember The Purge? The premise of the long-running horror franchise (which I love) is that there’s one day each year when all crime is 100% legal, so everybody goes buckwild with the violence. Well, what if you took that premise and made a rom-com out of it? That’s kinda what’s going on in One Night Only, a film set in a world where premarital sex is illegal except for one day of the year.
Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner star in One Night Only, from writer/director Will Gluck. EW has dropped the first images from the film, showing Turner’s character as a New York City pizza guy. The story finds its characters, named Allie and Owen, scrambling to find someone to sleep with on the day when premarital sex is legal.
Barbaro really broke out with her performance in A Complete Unknown, and again recently in Crime 101. Turner starred in another high-concept rom-com recently, Eternity, alongside Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller.
Gluck, who has already scored hit films with Easy A, Friends with Benefits, Peter Rabbit, and Annie, had his biggest yet with the Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell rom-com Anyone But You. In short, he knows this genre extremely well.
One Night Only hits theaters on August 7th from Universal Pictures. Expect a trailer soon.
