Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor are not running through a theme park, a jungle island, or a secret lab in the new trailer for The End of Oak Street.
They are trying to survive after their own neighborhood is ripped out of suburbia and dropped somewhere far more dangerous.
The new Warner Bros. trailer gives a fuller look at the upcoming sci-fi survival thriller from writer and director David Robert Mitchell, best known for It Follows. Hathaway and McGregor star as Denise and Greg Platt, parents trying to keep their family together after a mysterious cosmic event turns an ordinary street into a place where dinosaurs are suddenly outside the door.
Oak Street Moves Before the Dinosaurs Arrive
The National Desk reported that Hathaway and McGregor battle dinosaurs in the new trailer, with Maisy Stella and Christian Convery playing the couple’s children.
The setup gives the movie a cleaner twist than another trip into dinosaur territory. The Platt family does not travel to danger. Their neighborhood is transported there.
Warner Bros.’ synopsis says a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and moves the neighborhood to someplace unknown. The family soon realizes that survival depends on sticking together while the world around them no longer follows familiar rules.
The trailer sells that idea through simple suburban images placed in the wrong world: a house, a street, a family car, and massive prehistoric creatures moving too close to ordinary life.
David Robert Mitchell Started With a Dinosaur Beside a Garage
Entertainment Weekly reported that Mitchell came up with the idea while walking through a Michigan neighborhood.
Mitchell told EW he was passing a garage, chain-link fence, and garbage cans when he imagined how strange it would be to see a dinosaur there. That image became the starting point for a movie built around the clash between an ordinary middle-class street and something completely impossible.
Mitchell also said his reference points included The Twilight Zone, Poltergeist, The Valley of Gwangi, Signs, and classic 1980s Amblin adventure.
Those influences separate The End of Oak Street from a straight creature feature. The trailer has dinosaurs, but the movie is also being sold through mystery, family pressure, suspense, and a neighborhood that has no idea where it has landed.
The Platt Family Is Already Under Pressure
The trailer sells the spectacle, but Mitchell has described the family dynamic as a major part of the film.
Hathaway, McGregor, Stella, and Convery play a family already carrying tension before the cosmic event forces them into survival mode. Mitchell told EW that the Platts have problems before they are confronted by the dangerous situation, and that the crisis changes their dynamic.
That family setup gives the movie something to play besides chase scenes. The dinosaurs are not the only problem; they arrive after the Platts already have cracks inside the house.
Mitchell also praised Hathaway’s performance, telling EW that audiences may be surprised by the emotional places she goes in the film.
J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Add to the Speculation
The End of Oak Street is produced by Bad Robot and Jackson Pictures, with J.J. Abrams among the producers. Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute the film worldwide.
The Bad Robot connection has already encouraged speculation about whether the movie could be connected to the Cloverfield universe. No official confirmation supports that claim.
For now, the safer read is that The End of Oak Street is being sold as its own original sci-fi survival film. That already gives it a useful position in a summer movie season crowded with sequels and franchise titles.
The Cast Extends Beyond Hathaway and McGregor
Hathaway and McGregor give the movie its main adult pairing, while Stella and Convery play the couple’s children.
Stella broke through with My Old Ass, while Convery is familiar to many viewers from Netflix’s Sweet Tooth. The supporting cast also includes Jordan Alexa Davis, P.J. Byrne, and Chris Coy.
That ensemble suggests the film may spend time with the broader neighborhood, not only the Platt family. If all of Oak Street has been transported, the survival problem belongs to more than one house.
The Movie Arrives in Theaters This August
Warner Bros. will release The End of Oak Street in North American theaters on Aug. 14, 2026. The studio’s trailer also promotes the film for IMAX.
The release date positions the movie as a late-summer genre play with a simple original hook: a suburban family opens the door to a world where the street no longer belongs to the present.
For a film built around dinosaurs, the most useful image is not a monster roar or a giant footprint. It is a normal neighborhood suddenly sitting in the wrong time, with Hathaway and McGregor trying to get their family through whatever now lives beyond Oak Street.