How do you make it in your chosen profession? Hard work? Grit? Stamina? Or, if you’re the subject of a movie, a lucky, chance meeting with someone influential? And what happens after that? Welcome, then, to the dilemma at the heart of We Are Your Friends, which has just dropped a new trailer.
**We Are Your Friends **sees Zac Efron playing Cole Carter, a 23-year-old wannabe DJ who spends his days working manual labour and other jobs with his mates and plotting how they’re going to shape their future. Cole wants to find that one track that will set him on the road to success, but he’s still struggling. Then he meets James (Wes Bentley), a charismatic, talented but damaged older DJ who takes him under his wing. Soon his life is changing, but things start to get complicated when Cole falls for James’ girlfriend Sophie (Emily Ratajkowski). Cole is left with a choice, and his decision could make his career or destroy everything...
The film boasts a soundtrack featuring main contributors Years & Years alongside Aluna George, Justice Vs Simian and Hook & Sling.
With Max Joseph directing from a script he wrote with Meaghan Oppenheimer, and featuring Jon Bernthal, Jonny Weston, Shiloh Fernandez and Vanessa Lengies also in the cast, We Are Your Friends will be in UK cinemas on August 27.