--- title: Trailer: Dark Places, the New Gillian Flynn Movie With Charlize Theron description: Like "Gone Girl," but with satanic cults canonical: https://time.com/3927391/dark-places-trailer-gillian-flynn/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-18T21:12:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:20:54.445Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the Trailer for the New Gillian Flynn Movie, 'Dark Places' og:description: Like 'Gone Girl,' but with satanic cults og:url: https://time.com/3927391/dark-places-trailer-gillian-flynn/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30094aa32607b3ee/6988554ae53aba43874de41b/screen-shot-2015-06-18-at-4-59-42-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-06-18 at 4.59.42 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Trailer for the New Gillian Flynn Movie, 'Dark Places' twitter:description: Like 'Gone Girl,' but with satanic cults twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30094aa32607b3ee/6988554ae53aba43874de41b/screen-shot-2015-06-18-at-4-59-42-pm.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the Trailer for Gillian Flynn's _Dark Places_ by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jun 18, 2015 9:12 PM UTC  by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jun 18, 2015 9:12 PM UTC A new trailer is out for _Dark Places_, the thriller based on Gillian Flynn’s novel of the same name, and it looks as haunting as her previous box-office hit _Gone Girl_. This time around, Flynn did not adapt the 2009 novel herself—that job went to Gilles Paquet-Brenner, who also directs. Charlize Theron stars as Libby Day, the grown-up survivor of a family massacre that occurred when she was a child; her brother was imprisoned for the crime. Now, a man (Nicholas Hoult) from a group that believes her brother is innocent reaches out to get to the bottom of the crime, and Libby begins to question what she has always believed happened on that tragic day. Christina Hendricks, Chloë Grace Moretz and Drea de Matteo round out the cast. The thriller hits theaters Aug. 7. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3927391/dark-places-trailer-gillian-flynn/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3927391/dark-places-trailer-gillian-flynn/"},"headline":"Watch the Trailer for Gillian Flynn's Dark Places","datePublished":"2015-06-18T21:12:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:20:54.445Z","description":"Like Gone Girl, but with satanic cults","url":"https://time.com/3927391/dark-places-trailer-gillian-flynn/","keywords":["movies","Gillian Flynn"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30094aa32607b3ee/6988554ae53aba43874de41b/screen-shot-2015-06-18-at-4-59-42-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30094aa32607b3ee/6988554ae53aba43874de41b/screen-shot-2015-06-18-at-4-59-42-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-06-18 at 4.59.42 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3927391/dark-places-trailer-gillian-flynn/","name":"Watch the Trailer for Gillian Flynn's Dark Places"}}]}] ```