Everything We Know About The Great Beyond, Starring Jenna Ortega And Glen Powell

A bestselling fantasy author discovers the world he invented is actually real

Glen Powell plays a hugely successful fantasy novelist — described as being in the mold of Stephen King — whose bestselling series turns out to be based on a real, mythical world. The story follows him and his new wife as they're pulled into that world and forced to find a way back home.

Jenna Ortega plays his newlywed wife, caught in the middle of it

Ortega plays one half of a young married couple alongside Powell's character, with early descriptions of the film centering the two of them fighting to survive a supernatural entity connected to his fictional universe.

It's directed by J.J. Abrams, who's kept almost everything about it under wraps

True to Abrams' long-running "mystery box" approach to marketing — the same strategy he used on Cloverfield and Super 8 — plot details for The Great Beyond stayed almost entirely secret for most of production, with only the title, cast, and a bare-bones synopsis confirmed for months.

The supporting cast is stacked

Alongside Powell and Ortega, the film features Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Merritt Wever, and Samuel L. Jackson in supporting roles for Warner Bros.

It hits theaters November 13, 2026

Production wrapped and post-production was completed earlier this year, and Warner Bros. has set the film for a wide theatrical release on November 13, 2026 — putting Ortega and Powell's first film together directly in the middle of the fall movie season.