First Trailer for James McAvoy’s Directorial Debut ‘California Schemin’
by Alex Billington
December 2, 2025
Supply: YouTube
“You realize none of that is actual, proper?” Studiocanal UK has revealed the primary teaser trailer for the movie titled California Schemin’, which is the directorial debut of Scottish actor James McAvoy making his first movie. McAvoy directs and exec produces and in addition co-stars within the movie, which premiered on the 2025 Toronto Movie Competition and in addition performed on the Zurich Movie Competition this fall. An irresistible, feel-good underdog story about two Scottish males pretending to be People to attain their desires of hip-hop stardom. It is primarily based on a real story that is stranger than fiction. Based mostly on the outrageous true story, California Schemin’ follows two aspiring Scottish MCs who devise an audacious scheme to attain their huge dream of a document deal, by posing as Californian hip hop artists (below the title “Silibil N’ Brains”). As fame beckons and the lies pile up, their friendship is put to the check. Starring Samuel Bottomley & Séamus McLean Ross because the duo, with Lucy Halliday, Rebekah Murrell, & James McAvoy. It has a launch set in April 2026 within the UK, however nothing a couple of US opening thus far – additionally in all probability across the identical time subsequent spring. Appears good thus far.
Here is the primary teaser trailer (+ poster) for James McAvoy’s movie California Schemin’, from YouTube:
Through TIFF: “Impressed by the real-life saga of Scottish rap duo Silibil N’ Brains, a.okay.a. Gavin Bain (Séamus McLean Ross) and Billy Boyd (Samuel Bottomley), the movie follows the surprising journey of two lifelong buddies from Dundee who dream of hip-hop superstardom. There’s only one downside: no person takes two white guys with thick regional accents severely within the UK’s early 2000s rap scene, particularly not the London gatekeepers who giggle them out of an audition. Again residence and humiliated, the pair hatch a plan so absurd it simply would possibly work: they’ll reinvent themselves as hard-partying MCs from Southern California full with pretend backstories & convincing-enough American accents. In opposition to all odds — and with sharp commentary on picture, identification, the music trade’s obsession with authenticity — they take off, conning even one of many trade’s high producers (McAvoy). However maintaining the lie with out shedding sight of what’s actual turns into more durable as stakes rise, and as cracks beneath the bravado & between buddies start to widen.“
California Schemin’ is directed by Scottish actor / filmmaker James McAvoy, directing his first ever movie after producing the movie Filth beforehand. The screenplay is written by Archie Thomson and Elaine Gracie; primarily based on the story of Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd. Produced by Danny Web page, Paul Aniello, Simon Kay, Michael Mendelsohn. This initially premiered on the 2025 Toronto Movie Competition. Studiocanal will launch California Schemin’ in UK & Irish cinemas on April tenth, 2026 subsequent spring. No US launch is setup but – keep tuned.
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