Selena Gomez musical branded 'movie of the year' as first trailer drops

Only Murders in the Building star Selena Gomez is leading a widely-anticipated musical and its trailer is finally here.

Written by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez is a genre-bender that sees top lawyer Rita Moro Castro (Zoe Saldaña) enlisted by a feared cartel boss, Juan Del Monte, to help fake her death by undergoing gender-affirming surgery and becoming Emilia Perez (Karla Sofía Gascón).

The thriller follows Emilia and three other women in Mexico as they seek to live more authentically, with Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz taking on the other lead roles of Jessi Del Monte and Epifanía.

Ahead of its cinematic release on October 25 and Netflix release on November 13, critics have widely praised the film, awarding it an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film also won the 2024 Cannes Jury Prize and Best Actress Prize for its stars Gomez, Gascón, Saldaña, and Paz.

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Following a teaser trailer that dropped in August, the official trailer is finally here and fans have flocked to social media to share their excitement.

In the YouTube comments section, a fan hailed it as "One of the best releases that came out of Cannes." Another commenter applauded the trailer as being of the "Calibre of a best picture Oscar winner." A third wrote: "This looks actually pretty good I hope Netflix can pull off a Mafia-based musical." [sic]

On X, formerly Twitter, fans have shared similar reactions. One user exclaimed: "GIVE IT TO ME NOW" with another writing: "The movie of the year is coming" and a third declaring: "Audiard's direction + stunning cast = masterpiece."

A fourth wrote: "The suspense is unbearable, need to see it NOW." And a sixth thrilled fan shared: "The acting, the production, the music!! Just from watching the trailer, I can tell it's going to be an unforgettable movie!".

According to Vanity Fair, Audiard wrote Emilia Pérez during the COVID-19 lockdown and drew loose inspiration from Boris Razon's 2018 novel Écoute, which follows a drug dealer undergoing gender-reassignment surgery.

Since coming up with the concept, Gascón told Vanity Fair that the writer-director "Developed a better, deeper understanding of trans identity than when we started. He had a different feeling for the subject because it became less theoretical for him.”

Emilia Pérez drops on Netflix on November 13.