Searchlight has released the first trailer for “The Roses,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in a marriage turning sour. A reimagining of the 1989 black comedy “The War of the Roses,” “The Roses” is directed and produced by Jay Roach with a screenplay by Tony McNamara.

Titled The Roses, British actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman will star in a reimagining of the 1989 dark comedy The War of the Roses. The new Searchlight Pictures film will be directed by Jay Roach (known for directing the Austin Powers films and Trumbo,

Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman play a married couple on the verge of entering the violent arena of divorce in the new trailer for The Roses, a “reimagining” of the novel and 1989 film The War of the Roses.