A24‘s dark comedy feature The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, has already become the focus of debate, despite the studio’s efforts to conceal the film’s true subject matter from its marketing.
As revealed in media reports about the project that hits theaters Friday, writer-director Kristoffer Borgli‘s movie (spoilers ahead) centers on Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Pattinson), whose impending nuptials are thrown into jeopardy after the bride-to-be reveals that she planned a school shooting as a teen — and even took her dad’s weapon to school — but ultimately did not go through with it.
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