Succession season 4: new trailer showcases more Roy family drama - The Guardian

The Roy household is backmost and seemingly arsenic dysfunctional and cutthroat arsenic ever. A new teaser trailer for Succession, the fashionable amusement from British creator Jesse Armstrong, suggests the media conglomerate-owning, billionaire family’s travails and scathing powerfulness struggles volition proceed successful the 4th season, which HBO announced volition instrumentality successful March.

The trailer finds the Roy siblings – futile statesmanlike campaigner Connor (Alan Ruck), erstwhile aureate lad Kendall (Jeremy Strong), puerile Roman (Kieran Culkin) and scheming girl Shiv (Sarah Snook) – successful turmoil pursuing their failed coup successful the third play finale and their father’s projected merchantability of the institution to tech mogul Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård).

According to the authoritative logline, the imaginable of specified a woody “provokes existential angst and familial part among the Roys arsenic they expect what their lives volition look similar erstwhile the woody is complete”, particularly arsenic immoderate of the Roys see a aboriginal successful which “their taste and governmental value is severely curtailed.”

The trailer previews the accustomed Succession staples – backstage jets and luxury homes, achromatic cars, fancy dinners, Greg and Tom successful an office, Kendall referring glumly to a “500-foot reputational drop”.

“We wanted to bash thing together,” Shiv says successful voiceover. “This is not astir getting backmost astatine Dad, but if it hurts him, it doesn’t fuss me.”

The heavy awarded play bid stars Brian Cox arsenic patriarch Logan Roy, who volition instrumentality arsenic a bid regular on with Strong, Culkin, Snook, Ruck and co-stars Matthew McFadyen, Nicholas Braun and J Smith-Cameron.

HBO besides announced caller additions to the play 4 cast: Annabeth Gish, Adam Godley, Eili Harboe and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson.

Little has been revealed astir the 4th season, but formed members person sung veiled praises. Braun, who plays hapless Cousin Greg, called the caller play an “absolute banger”, portion Skarsgård described play 4 arsenic “manicured”.

Armstrong has besides remained mum connected the 4th season, but did reveal to reporters aft the show’s Emmy triumph successful September that the 4th play was “shooting abroad”.

“I deliberation I could archer you everything that’s gonna happen, but it volition lone marque it worse erstwhile you ticker it,” helium said.

The archetypal 3 seasons of Succession garnered 48 Emmy nominations and 13 wins, including 2 for champion play series, among galore different accolades.

It volition instrumentality to HBO connected 26 March with a UK day to beryllium confirmed.