Netflix has released the trailer for Joy, their upcoming film based on true events surrounding the world’s first “test tube baby” in 1978.
The film will have its World Premiere at 68th BFI London Film Festival on Tuesday 15th October. Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton and Bill Nighy lead the cast of the movie which has a screenplay by Jack Thorne. Ben Taylor directs.
Joy tells the remarkable true story behind the ground-breaking birth of Louise Joy Brown in 1978, the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’, and the tireless 10-year journey to make it possible. Told through the perspective of Jean Purdy, a young nurse and embryologist, who joined forces with scientist Robert Edwards and surgeon Patrick Steptoe to unlock the puzzle of infertility by pioneering in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The film celebrates the power of perseverance and the wonders of science as it follows this maverick trio of visionaries who overcame tremendous odds and opposition to realise their dream, and in doing so allowed millions of people to dream with them.
The film will get a limited theatrical release in the UK on 15th November with a Netflix debut set for the following week from 22nd November.
Here’s the new trailer.
