Idris Elba takes his astronauts from re-entry to the seabed in Above the Below

Lionsgate's trailer for the survival thriller he co-directs keeps its plot hidden, and viewers keep saying they like it that way.

Channel: Lionsgate Movies Story of October 21, 2026Trari Newsroom

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Above the Below (2026) Official Trailer - Idris Elba, Caitlin FitzGerald, Hero Fiennes Tiffin

Idris Elba brings a crew home from space and then hands them to the ocean. In Above the Below, which he co-directs with Martin Owen and stars in alongside Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin, three astronauts survive a disaster in orbit only to crash-land in the deep, cut off from mission control with their oxygen running low.

The trailer skips the warm-up. It opens in a cabin flashing red as water pours in, two crew members fighting their way into diving gear. "I don't think I can do this," FitzGerald's character says. Elba's character answers in two words: "Just breathe."

From there it cuts between a capsule dropping toward a storm on damaged parachutes, an astronaut sinking into dark water and Elba walking a high-tech control room in front of a wall of screens, while the title arrives one word at a time.

What it leaves out is what the comments keep coming back to. Plenty of viewers say they finished it knowing almost nothing about the story and are glad of it. Gamers see Subnautica in the premise, and one popular joke files the film as a Pacific Rim prequel, a nod to Elba's turn as Stacker Pentecost.

Lionsgate posted it as a Short, and in twelve hours it passed 750,000 views; the channel's Shorts usually manage about 14,000 in a whole first day. The comments came in faster still, at many times the usual pace.

Some viewers call this Elba's first time directing. His feature debut was actually Yardie, back in 2018. This one asks more of him: he is behind the camera and inside the sinking crew. The film opens only in theaters December 4.

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The numbers

A trailer posted as a Short ran far ahead of the channel's usual first day, and its comment section moved even faster.

the video's first day

usual first day here

13,840

this video

1,084,120

subscribers

3,070,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

3,532,109,671

views per day

470,404

typical day: 1,430,300

the video

views

747,836

likes

8,176

comments

631

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Star Wars

4,310,000

Universal Pictures At Home

3,880,000

Jurassic World

3,140,000

Lionsgate Movies

3,070,000

Harry Potter

3,000,000

Warner Bros. Classics

2,240,000

As of October 21, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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