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‘Sacrifice’ turns a tech tycoon’s party into an armed hostage crisis
Romain Gavras’s film ‘Sacrifice’ satirizes tech wealth and celebrity culture through a chaotic hostage plot.
Tech billionaire Ben Bracken hosts a party at an old island fortress to promote a new form of ocean mining that the film portrays as harmful to the oceans.
Among the guests is Chris Evans’s troubled action star, Mike Tyler, whose career has suffered after he caused a scene at a Hollywood awards event.
An armed group led by Joan, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, storms the party and says the world will end in 48 hours unless three people are sacrificed.
The group takes the guests toward a nearby volcano, while police pursue them and Joan and Mike grow closer.
The film mixes absurd humor with criticism of the rich, social media, cultural appropriation and shallow uses of psychology in the age of AI.
Sacrifice stars Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy in a satire about an eco-terrorist group that takes guests hostage at a billionaire’s island event.
Romain Gavras directed the film, his fourth feature and his first made with a Hollywood-style approach aimed at a wide audience, according to Folha.
Vincent Cassel plays technology magnate Ben Bracken, who is preparing to use a maritime mining method that the film describes as extremely harmful to the oceans.
Taylor-Joy plays Joan, the group’s leader, and Evans plays Mike Tyler, an action-film star in crisis.
The group believes the Earth will end in 48 hours unless three people are sacrificed in a nearby volcano.
- Who
- The film stars Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy. Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich and Salma Hayek are also in the cast.
- What
- Sacrifice is a satirical film about an eco-terrorist plot that disrupts a billionaire’s island event.
- When
- The articles were published on October 15, 2026.
- Where
- The story is set at an event in an old fortress on an island and later follows the group toward a nearby volcano. The island’s location is not stated.
- Why
- Joan’s group believes the Earth will end in 48 hours and that sacrificing three people is the only way to stop its destruction.
Joan’s eco-terrorist group
Ben Bracken and the event’s guests
Environmental threat
Joan’s eco-terrorist group
Joan’s group believes the Earth will end in 48 hours and that three people must be sacrificed to prevent it.
Ben Bracken and the event’s guests
Bracken presents his planned maritime mining method as a way to help humanity, though the film describes it as extremely harmful to the oceans.
Response
Joan’s eco-terrorist group
Joan’s group takes guests hostage and plans to throw three of them into a volcano.
Ben Bracken and the event’s guests
Bracken and the guests are caught up in the group’s plot; their views on the group’s beliefs are not stated.
Ben Bracken prepares to use a maritime mining method described as extremely harmful to the oceans.
Joan’s armed group invades the gathering and says it believes the Earth will end in 48 hours.
The group takes prisoners toward a nearby volcano while police pursue them.
- Director
- Romain Gavras
- Lead actors
- Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy
- Bracken’s actor
- Vincent Cassel
- Group’s deadline
- 48 hours
- Planned sacrifice
- Three people
- Folha publication
- October 15, 2026