Their dusty outback doubles as a theme park where they put on skits for visiting New Londoners who want to gawk at the absurdity of concepts like wedding ceremonies, pregnancy, and Black Friday sales.Įhrenreich’s John is a loner working behind the scenes on props and cleaning up the carnage after the theatrics. He comes from a caste below the Epsilons of the city’s enlightened civilization: outcasts known as “Savages” who occupy the remnants of the land, which has the appearance of the seedier side of rural America. John identifies with their plight and stirs trouble with his radical thinking. Making up the lowest class in New London are human worker bees known as “Epsilons,” who are genetically designed to be obedient, inferior peons with the sole purpose of cleaning up all of this excess.

Set primarily in a prosperous region dubbed “New London,” this is a futuristic world where everyone is happy and living their best lives - that is, everyone who has been genetically ordained to be at the top of the new world order’s caste system (the so-called “Alphas” and “Betas” of the society), has no interest in privacy, and is enjoying both a daily allotment of mind-numbing drugs and intercourse with new and familiar faces without any interest in monogamy. In Joel and Ethan Coens’ send-up of old Hollywood, Hail, Caesar!, he’s a singing cowboy forced into the role of a comedic leading man.Īnd he seems to have done it again for Brave New World, the flashy adaptation of author Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic for new streaming service Peacock.

In Solo: A Star Wars Story, he stars as the younger version of the Star Wars universe antihero made famous by Harrison Ford: Han Solo, a brilliant and cunning non-conformist better suited to take on near-suicide missions with his Wookiee best friend than rising through the ranks of the Imperial Army. Alden Ehrenreich often plays characters who don’t fit the molds that other characters try to jam them in.

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