Black Bear Pictures has unveiled the official trailer for Wicker, giving the first clear look at Alexander Skarsgård as the wicker husband in the film. The trailer arrived on July 30, 2026, with the film set to reach US theaters on October 23, 2026.
That matters because Wicker is not a straight drama or a tidy romance. It is a sharp satire about a fisherwoman, played by Olivia Colman, who commissions a husband from the local basket weaver, played by Peter Dinklage, and the result is Skarsgård’s wicker creation: a figure framed as the perfect husband, then as a source of jealousy and upheaval that starts to unsettle village life.
The film had already drawn strong attention earlier this year when it premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Now the trailer turns that festival interest into a wider sales pitch, putting its cast in view alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Ella Bruccoleri, Richard E. Grant, Nabhaan Rizwan and Kiell Smith-Bynoe. Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson co-directed and co-wrote the film, their second feature after Save Yourselves!, and Black Bear Pictures is handling the US rollout.
The brief trailer also answers a practical question that follows a concept like this one: how do you make a husband out of wicker feel real on screen? The film’s answer is to lean into craft and illusion, with the wicker man presented as a tangible presence rather than a visual aside. That choice gives the satire weight, because the joke only works if the thing at the center of it feels strangely convincing.
What remains is whether that blend of fable, jealousy and domestic absurdity can travel from Sundance praise to a wider audience in October. For now, the trailer makes one thing plain: Wicker is being sold as a strange but polished comedy with Alexander Skarsgård at its center, and the next test comes when Black Bear Pictures opens it in US theaters on October 23, 2026.
