‘Club Kid’ Trailer: Jordan Firstman In His Buzzy Directorial Debut

Here’s the first trailer for Jordan Firstman’s buzzy feature debut, Club Kid. 

A24, which acquired the film out of Cannes, will place the title in a limited theatrical release from Nov. 6.

The movie follows Firstman as a hard-partying New York City club promoter whose life is upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had. Firstman also wrote the movie.

The pic received a seven-minute standing ovation at its Cannes premiere. A24 reportedly beat out multiple bidders to land the title.

Deadline film critic Damon Wise described the film as “an unlikely but still beautifully human story” and praised Firstman’s “elegant switch into a more serious tone, one that addresses all the questions you might have had about this man and his fitness to raise a kid.”

Speaking with Deadline at Cannes, Firstman said the inspiration behind the film was “a period in my life where — it’s going to sound wrong — I was just around a bunch of kids for some reason. My friends started having kids, and I was getting along with them in a funny way, and they would always laugh at me with kids.” 

He added: “So in the first iteration, I’m just like, ‘Oh, me and a kid, funny, ha ha. Adam Sandler, blah, blah, blah.’ And then through the process of writing it, I went through a breakup, and that partner and I, we partied a lot together. He was in Berlin, and so I had just a lot of exposure to that scene and was just partying a lot myself and finding myself at this crossroads where the drugs were not hitting like they used to. But you keep doing them, and you’re like, ‘So they’re not working, and I feel horrible for a week.’ And so I kind of just wanted to explore that. And then as I kept writing, new things kept unfolding and honestly they keep unfolding. I still learn new things about the film and myself every time I watch it.”

Check out the trailer above.