Overview

• The first trailer showcases leather-clad BDSM imagery and ends with Skarsgård’s Ray telling Harry Melling’s Colin to “buy yourself a butt plug; you’re too tight.”
• Based on Adam Mars-Jones’ Box Hill, the film follows biker-club leader Ray taking the timid Colin as his submissive, with Jake Shears appearing in his acting debut.
• Pillion premiered at Cannes to a seven‑minute standing ovation and won Un Certain Regard’s Best Screenplay, with upcoming high‑profile screenings including the New York Film Festival and London Film Festival.
• At the Zurich Film Festival, Skarsgård emphasized authenticity over shock, noting that more graphic material was shot than shown, that edits were made before Cannes, and that intimacy coordinator Robbie Taylor Hunt shaped the sex scenes’ narrative purpose.
• Release timing remains inconsistent across outlets, with A24 signaling an early‑2026 U.S. theatrical rollout as others cite a November 28 cinema date in certain markets.