'The Double' Trailer: Two Snakes Fight For Life

Richard Ayoade made a significant directorial debut with Submarine, and he returns to the director's chair for The Double. (Not to be confused with the 2011 thriller of the same name starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace.) The new film, based on a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, stars Jesse Eisenberg as a guy who discovers he has an exact double, and that the other guy is better and more successful in pretty much every way. (Not to be confused with the upcoming Denis Villeneuve movie Enemy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.)

The film has played well at festivals, and this trailer will give you a good idea why; it's a great trailer that has menace and an excellent sense of atmosphere, and even some humor that fits really well with the premise.

The Double will open in the US on May 9, but it hits the UK on April 4.  Mia Wasikowska , Wallace Shawn, James Fox, Cathy Moriarty, Yasmin Page and Noah Taylor are the supporting cast.