Lonely Planet Promises a Romantic End of Summer in its Trailer

Ready for a mystical trip to Morocco? Lonely Planet arrives at just the right time to bid farewell to summer as we enter full steam into fall. The trailer is here and we are ready to analyze it.

Here we go!

Since it was announced that Liam Hemsworth was going to team up with Laura Dern for this project, we were eager to find out more and the trailer gave us everything we needed.

At Lonely Planet, a reclusive novelist arrives at a prestigious writer’s retreat in Morocco, hoping the remote setting will unlock her writer’s block. While there, she meets a young man — what starts as an acquaintanceship evolves into an intoxicating, life-altering love affair, and the trailer reflects just that.

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In the trailer, we see how Katherine tries to find inspiration to finish her book at an author retreat. In reality, she is not there for the group activities, just to be quiet in her room writing, alone. But that solitude is interrupted by Owen, an attractive younger man who is also participating in the author retreat.

Sparks fly between them from the first meeting and Owen takes Katherine not only out of her solitude, but out of her comfort zone and reminds her that life only has flavor if you know how to take advantage of it.

Lonely Planet. (L-R) Laura Dern as Katherine Loewe and Liam Hemsworth as Owen Brophy in Lonely Planet. Cr. Courtesy Netflix
Lonely Planet. (L-R) Laura Dern as Katherine Loewe and Liam Hemsworth as Owen Brophy in Lonely Planet. Cr. Anne Marie Fox/Netflix © 2024
Lonely Planet. (L-R) Laura Dern as Katherine Loewe and Liam Hemsworth as Owen Brophy in Lonely Planet. Cr. Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/Netflix © 2024

Owen seems like the perfect man… except he is caught. In reality, he is on that retreat because of his girlfriend but we see really soon that their relationship deteriorate minute by minute and as Owen and his girlfriend grow further apart, he and Katherine find themselves closer to each other, falling in love unwittingly, unwillingly, and unexpectedly.

But once it is done, the question is whether they are willing to risk it all for that love or whatever happens in Morocco, will stay in Morocco.

If you want to know more about the film, check out TUDUM.

Lonely Planet will premiere on October 11, 2024 only on Netflix.

Raquel Morales

I’m passionate about strong women, complex characters and a ship that unites the two, but above all, I love writing about them and unraveling the intricacies behind each character. The need to put those thoughts into words was what led me to become a critic. The time as a professional one taught me that writing is an art and, therefore, it never stops changing and offering new experiences.