The End of Oak Street trailer reveals dinosaurs in suburbia from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star.
The End of Oak Street is the kind of movie that makes you question whether you actually saw what you just saw. David Robert Mitchell, the director who made you terrified of slow-walking strangers in It Follows and then confused the hell out of you with Under the Silver Lake, has returned with a science fiction film that apparently involves dinosaurs, cosmic displacement, and Anne Hathaway looking stressed in a minivan. Warner Bros. drops it August 14, 2026, and the trailer is already one of the year’s most talked-about teasers.
The premise is deceptively simple. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports the neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family discovers that survival depends on sticking together as they navigate unrecognizable surroundings. The End of Oak Street stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as the suburban parents, with Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, Jordan Alexa Davis, P.J. Byrne, and Chris Coy filling out the ensemble. J.J. Abrams produces through Bad Robot, which means the mystery box is fully engaged.
Mitchell has been away from features for eight years, since Under the Silver Lake polarized critics in 2018. The End of Oak Street marks his first studio-backed project, his first foray into science fiction proper, and his first time working with a budget that presumably allows for more than one dinosaur. The teaser shows Hathaway and McGregor’s neighborhood floating in a void, surrounded by prehistoric creatures that definitely were not in the HOA agreement.
The End of Oak Street and Mitchell’s Next Moves
The End of Oak Street production represents a major escalation for Mitchell. After financing his first feature, The Myth of the American Sleepover, with $30,000 of his own savings and shooting it in Michigan, he’s now working with Warner Bros. and Abrams’ Bad Robot on a summer tentpole. The film was previously titled Flowervale Street before the name change, suggesting studio notes or simply Mitchell’s tendency to tinker until the last possible moment.
What’s particularly exciting is that The End of Oak Street won’t be his only project. He’s also slated to direct They Follow, the sequel to It Follows, with Maika Monroe reprising her role as Jay. Monroe told IndieWire in 2024 that “the script is so fucking good” and that she’s “obsessed” with where Mitchell is taking the character. So after eight years of silence, we’re getting two films in quick succession, which suggests the director has been quietly building a backlog of ideas rather than taking an early retirement.
The August 14 release date positions The End of Oak Street as a late-summer genre film, the kind of slot that has launched original properties before. If Mitchell can translate his indie horror instincts into studio-scale spectacle without losing his weirdness, this could be the film that finally makes him a household name outside of film bro circles. Dinosaurs in suburbia is a hell of a hook. Let’s see if he sticks the landing.
See The End of Oak Street in theaters August 14, 2026, and witness what happens when your neighborhood gets eaten by prehistory.