New look of Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy in the new film Sacrifice revealed

Sacrifice, an upcoming satire co-written and directed by Romain Gavras, has received a brand new look ahead of its premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025.

Here's the film's logline, as per Letterboxd:

"A failing movie star who tries to get back into the spotlight at a charity gala but gets upstaged & kidnapped by radical voters."

The film stars Chris Evans as a Hollywood movie star, known for his action projects, while Anya Taylor-Joy joins as an eco-cult leader, who believes the world can be protected through some famous sacrifices. The newly released look shows Evans as the actor, Mike Tyler, and Taylor-Joy as the radical leader, Joan, determined to save humanity at large.

The image shows Chris Evans in a bearded look, dressed in a white suit, standing in front of Anya Taylor-Joy, wearing a maroon headband and a gun, in an intense conversation as they hold each other's hands. He looks well put-together as opposed to her, whose white attire looks rather dusty and worn out.

Before this, another still showed Chris Evans wearing the same outfit, standing in the middle of a big, marbled room and surrounded by a flock of photographers.

What else do we know about Sacrifice, starring Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy?

Romain Gavras, the French filmmaker behind the politically charged 2022 film Athena, returns to directorial duties with Sacrifice, which TIFF calls "likely the timeliest, most energetic satire you’ll see this year." That doesn't seem far from the truth, considering the co-writer Will Arbery's experience working on Jesse Armstrong's Succession.

Speaking about the cast, Sacrifice stars Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy, alongside Salma Hayek Pinault, Vincent Cassel, Ambika Mod, Charli XCX, John Malkovich, Jeremy O. Harris, Miriam Silverman, and Yung Lean. The film is set at an environmental conference in Greece, attended by Evans's big-shot Hollywood actor, who is suffering from an existential crisis.

TIFF elaborates on French actor Vincent Cassel's character, saying,

"Braken, a fusion of your least favourite billionaires, is present to muster support for a highly questionable deep-sea mining effort targeting essential minerals."

Further, it reveals some details about the cult led by Anya Taylor-Joy's character:

"Complicating their efforts is Joan, the leader of a doomsday eco-cult. She and her acolytes are convinced the only way to prevent the catastrophic, world-ending eruption of the huge volcano burbling off the coast is to offer up suitably famous sacrifices."

According to a Deadline report, the film began its principal photography in November 2024 in Greece and Bulgaria. Per Greek City Times, it wrapped up production by the end of the same year.

Although an action-adventure comedy film, TIFF refers to it as a potent satire relevant to the times we live in, ripe with drastic measures taken for or against the prevailing ecological crisis. Deadline cited the Joan of Arc story as an inspiration behind this project. The film is yet to receive an official theatrical release date after its TIFF premiere.