The End of Oak Street trailer reveals Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor fighting dinosaurs after their suburban street gets transported to another dimension.
The End of Oak Street just released a trailer where Anne Hathaway fights dinosaurs in suburbia, and honestly, why aren’t more movies doing this?
The End of Oak Street is the new sci-fi thriller from David Robert Mitchell, the director who terrified you with It Follows, and it stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor as a married couple whose entire suburban neighborhood gets ripped from reality and dropped into an unrecognizable landscape. Warner Bros. and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot are producing, with Christian Convery and Maisy Stella playing their children.
The film hits theaters August 14, 2026, and the trailer reveals the family being chased through the ruins of their own street by prehistoric predators. In an era of franchise fatigue, The End of Oak Street looks like the kind of high-concept original that makes you remember why you loved movies in the first place.
The End of Oak Street Hid Its Real Plot For Years
The genuinely surprising detail is how long this project stayed hidden. Mitchell wrote the original script under the title Flowervale Street, and Warner Bros. kept the plot under wraps for years before revealing that the family would be chased through their displaced neighborhood by actual dinosaurs. Michael Giacchino is composing the score, reuniting with Bad Robot after his work on J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek and Mission: Impossible films.
Mitchell’s cinematographer Michael Gioulakis, who shot It Follows and Us, is bringing his signature unsettling visual style to what is essentially a cosmic disaster movie wrapped in a family drama. The teaser shows Hathaway’s character telling her son, “I think our house, our neighborhood, our whole street has moved,” before the camera pulls back to reveal their entire block floating in an alien void.
This is not a gentle Spielbergian encounter with friendly reptiles. The End of Oak Street trailer makes it clear that Mitchell is treating dinosaurs the same way he treated the entity in It Follows—as an unstoppable force that doesn’t negotiate and absolutely does not care about your mortgage. Ewan McGregor plays the father trying to hold his family together while their neighborhood collapses around them, and if his performance matches the panic in his eyes during the trailer footage, we’re looking at a career highlight.
The End of Oak Street represents the kind of mid-budget original sci-fi that studios claim they can’t make anymore, except Warner Bros. clearly can when the right director and cast align. With dinosaurs, dimensional displacement, and Anne Hathaway looking appropriately terrified, August 14 just became the most interesting date left on the summer calendar. If David Robert Mitchell can make a sexually transmitted haunting terrifying, imagine what he can do with a T-Rex in a cul-de-sac.
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