Greatest Hits Trailer: Time Travel Romance Movie Puts New Twist On An Old Sci-Fi Paradox

The trailer for the upcoming movie The Greatest Hits showcases a unique time travel romance. The movie was written and directed by The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby‘s Ned Benson, who also has a story credit on 2021’s Black Widow. It follows Harriet (Lucy Boynton), who discovers that listening to certain music can allow her to travel back in time, which leaves her torn between her current love interest (Justin H. Min) and her ex-boyfriend Max (David Corenswet) as she ponders whether she can or should change the past.

Searchlight Pictures has now unveiled the official trailer for The Greatest Hits on the same day as the movie’s premiere at SXSW. Check it out below:

After kicking off by showing the way Harriet time travels, the trailer immediately raises the stakes by revealing that Max died in a car wreck and she can potentially reverse his fate, but doing so might make it so that they never met. When she meets and begins to bond with Min’s character, another grief-stricken artistic soul, her romantic life gets even more complicated but never less musical.

The Greatest Hits Could Be Lucy Boynton’s Breakout Lead Role

The Greatest Hits could have the potential to become Lucy Boynton’s breakout lead performance. She has held roles in major projects before, including being part of the Barbie cast in a brief appearance as Proust Barbie, but most of her major roles have been co-leads. This includes starring opposite Will Poulter in the Agatha Christie miniseries adaptation Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? and being part of the ensemble cast of Netflix’s The Politician.

Boynton’s career could reach new heights if the movie becomes a hit, something that is entirely within the realm of possibility. The trailer, while showing that the movie is carving its own narrative path, recalls previous similar titles that have blended science fiction and romance including the Rachel McAdams time travel movies The Time Traveler’s Wife and About Time. While not every movie was a runaway success, the major examples of the crossover genre all made their money back. Below, check out how the aforementioned movies and other comparable titles fared at the box office:

The precedent set by those titles shows that The Greatest Hits has a strong potential to connect with a wide audience, even though the majority of its release will take place on streaming as a Hulu movie. It could very well follow in the footsteps of the platform’s previous streaming hits including Prey and Palm Springs. The latter title was a romantic comedy set in a time loop, so its success especially could show that the new movie and Boynton both have bright futures.