Chris Hansen Reveals Why He Didn't See Robert Pattinson's Primetime

“A24 wanted maine to motion distant my rights.” That’s the crux of Chris Hansen’s mentation for wherefore helium turned down watching an aboriginal screening of Primetime, the upcoming movie wherever the erstwhile To Catch a Predator big is portrayed by Robert Pattinson.

In an interrogation with Fox News, Hansen recalled being conscionable moments distant from screening Primetime erstwhile helium rejected signing what helium deemed a “very restrictive agreement. I had ne'er seen thing rather similar it.”

“The lawyers astatine A24 wanted maine to motion distant my rights to my name, representation and brand, essentially, arsenic good arsenic immoderate imaginable ineligible rights that would travel retired of the movie,” Hansen claimed.

“I couldn’t motion that, truthful they didn’t amusement maine the film. I went each the mode implicit there. … But who’s going to motion thing similar that?”

Hansen said his attorneys had reviewed the NDA earlier helium went to A24 to surface the film. Nevertheless, Hansen yet balked astatine signing it.

The erstwhile big added, “If you look astatine the trailer, evidently it’s a precise dramatized version. They had told maine that it’s fictionalized successful galore aspects. I cognize different radical person seen it who didn’t motion an NDA, and yet they wanted maine to motion it.”

But The Hollywood Reporter’s sources accidental “Hansen was asked to motion a modular NDA a week successful beforehand that each preview audiences indispensable motion successful bid to ticker an unreleased A24 film. It’s mostly to forestall spoilers and support the studio’s IP.”

(Editor’s note: IGN writers, including myself, are often asked by studios to motion specified NDAs earlier screenings oregon acceptable visits, which mostly impact agreeing to a circumstantial embargo day and clip for your sum to run.)

Directed by Lance Oppenheimer, Primetime opens successful theaters connected September 25, 2026.