The year 2024 is set to end with a bang following the release ofY2K,which will take viewers back to the year 2000. The movie,directed byKyle Mooney, takes place at a New Year’s Eve party where the Y2K bug proves troublingly real, and the appliances in the house decide to get their own back. As part of the release, Collider is thrilled to exclusively reveal a PSA featuring Mooney, made for Alamo Drafthouse, asking people not to talk. As you’d expect from Mooney, theSNLalum is hilariously awkward and awkwardly hilarious in the bit.
The film starsJaeden Martelltaking after his director as the painfully awkward Eli who decides he’s going to crash a high schoolY2KNew Year’s Eve Party with his best bud, played byDeadpool 2’sJulian Dennison.At the party, they run intoRachel Zeglerand the chaos begins.Eduardo Franco, best known asStranger Things’ Argyle, joins the cast as well, along withDaniel Zoghadri(Eighth Grade) as CJ,Lachlan Watson(The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as Ash, director Kyle Mooney as Garrett,Alicia Silverstoneas Robin,Fred Durstas himself, continuing to keep on rollin', andThe Kid Laroias “Soccer Chris".
What Is ‘Y2K’ About?
Speaking to Collider at SXSW where the movie had its bow, Zegler spoke passionately about the decision to join the cast and her excitement was difficult to conceal from everyone around her. Zegler is on a really hot streak right now, having recently worked withSteven Spielbergand recently starred inThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,as well as taking on the daunting role of Snow White in the upcoming live-action Disney remake, but this smaller movie wassomething she couldn’t say no to:
“It was so fun to read because I like when things go a little differently than you expect. It’s so fun to read stuff like that on the page and then see it come to life on a screen, both while you’re filming it and then when you see the finished product. You really think it’s a very coming-of-age, these two kids are gonna own New Years, [then] midnight strikes and things go a little differently than you think they’re gonna go. It was really fun to read. It was so different than anything I had read before, and certainly different than anything I had ever done before, so it was just an immediate yes.”
Y2Kwill open in theaters on December 6. Check out our exclusive PSA featuring Kyle Mooney above, and be sure to stay tuned to Collider for further updates.
Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year’s Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.
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