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Timur Bekmambetov’s screenlife terrorism thriller Profile gets a first trailer

April 7, 2021 by Amie Cranswick

Focus Features has released a trailer for director Timur Bekmambetov’s (Night Watch, Wanted) new ‘screenlife’ thriller Profile.

Based on Anna Erelle’s non-fiction book, In the Skin of a Jihadist, the film plays out entirely on a computer screen similar to 2018’s Searching (which Bekmambetov produced) and follows an undercover British journalist as she tries to expose a terrorist recruiter through social media; watch it here…

PROFILE follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.

Profile is set for release on May 14th.

 

Originally published April 7, 2021. Updated April 15, 2021.

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Profile, timur bekmambetov

About Amie Cranswick

Amie Cranswick has been part of Flickering Myth's editorial team for over a decade. She has a background in publishing and copyediting and has served as Executive Editor of FlickeringMyth.com since 2020.

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