Watch Channing Tatum Tap-Dance in Coens Hail, Caesar! Trailer

Hollywood movie-star abductions, crises of faith, film-within-a-film shenanigans, and Channing Tatum as a tap-dancing sailor: Thats the high-brow/low-brow recipe for Hail Caesar!, the Coen Brothers upcoming showbiz comedy set to hit theaters on February 5th, 2016.

The freewheeling first trailer offers a glimpse of a classic Coen plot: 1950s studio fixer Eddie Mannix finds himself overwhelmed on the set of Capitol Pictures latest prestige picture Hail Caesar!, when dimwit leading man Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) is abducted and held on a $100,000 ransom by a mysterious group called The Future.

The clip also showcases the army of technicians and actors and top-notch artistic people working on various Capitol projects including a temperamental director (Ralph Fiennes), a scheming actress (Scarlett Johansson) and a Gene Kelly-ish hoofer (Channing Tatum). The all-star cast also features Jonah Hill, Frances McDormand, Christopher Lambert and Tilda Swinton asa gossip columnist hounding Mannix about the drama.

Though the trailer focuses primarily on the abduction storyline, it hints at deeper spiritual troubles for the overwhelmed Mannix, who is shown taking confession only 27 hours after his previous visit. Its really too often, his priest says. Youre not that bad.

Joel and Ethan Coen who co-wrote, directed and producedHail Caesar! first mentioned the film in 2004, confirming official development last year. Following the duos most recent directorial effort, 2013s Inside Llewyn Davis, they co-wrote the screenplays for the 2014 war-sports drama Unbroken (directed by Angelina Jolie) and Steven Spielbergs upcoming historical thriller Bridge of Spies, out October 16th.