Austin Butler, Tom Hardy Burn Down a Bar, Run Drugs in ‘The Bikeriders’ Trailer

“I’ve been thinking. I can’t run this club forever,” Tom Hardy’s character Johnny says in the opening for The Bikeriders trailer. “I built this from nothing. This is our family.”

The scene — which sees Benny, played by Austin Butler, ruminating over Johnny’s words — sets the tone for the upcoming film, which follows the evolution of a fictional Midwestern motorcycle club known as the Vandals. The duo will be joined by the incredibly talented Jodie Comer (The Last Duel, Killing Eve), Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, George & Tammy), and Mike Faist (Dear Evan Hansen), who plays the fictional version of real-life photographer Danny Lyon — whose iconic 1968 book of black-and white images inspired the movie. Lyon’s book, which documented the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, shares the same title as the film.

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Comer stars as Kathy, who quickly falls for and marries Benny, and soon battles with the violent consequences of his life with the biker group led by founder Johnny. The trailer also shows Benny getting into a bar fight, which leads to Johnny and the gang setting it on fire. “The club got real big, real fast. They started running drugs, gambling, prostitution,” Kathy tells Lyon as the Rolling Stones’ song Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) plays in the background.

Written and directed by Loving filmmaker Jeff Nichols, the film is produced by Regency Enterprises, New Regency Productions, Tri-State Pictures and 20th Century Studios. Shannon previously worked with Nichols on several films, including 2011’s Take Shelter. Boyd Holbrook, Damon Herriman, Beau Knapp, Emory Cohen and Karl Glusman also star.

The Bikeriders is set to release in theaters on Dec. 1.

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