Primetime is an A24 crime drama trailer released May 27, with Robert Pattinson portraying Chris Hansen. The film centers on Hansen’s rise to fame through To Catch a Predator on Dateline NBC and his later work as a YouTube creator. Voice-over lines in the trailer closely mirror Hansen’s words from the televised sting, framing them as interrogation and as commentary on his journalism. The story references the sting operation in which men were lured into online chats with people presented as minors, then confronted by Hansen when they arrived at a house. The material emphasizes accountability, television impact, and the controversial nature of the approach.
"Pattinson's voice-over narration are words more or less straight from Hansen's mouth from throughout To Catch a Predator, you can easily read them as Hansen interrogating himself and his brand of journalism that changed TV forever-and not necessarily all for the better."
""What would have happened if I wasn't here?" Pattinson's Chris Hansen asks, presumably to a caught predator. (But consider, for a moment, Hansen talking to himself.) "You see how this looks, right? At the end of the day, men must be held accountable for the decisions that he makes. Would you agree?""
"He continues, "Do you watch television? Well, there's something you should know. I'm Chris Hansen, with Dateline NBC. And you're about to be a part of television history.""
"To Catch a Predator was a notorious recurring segment for Dateline NBC. Aligned with the now-defunct watchdog group Perverted-Justice, Hansen and his team lured men into chatting with underage boys and girls (really adults in disguise, of course) on the Internet. When the men arrive at the sting house expecting everyone's worst fears, in walks Hansen, who professionally and cold"
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