Nick Offerman & Jacob Tremblay vs Government in ‘Sovereign’ Trailer
by Alex Billington
June 25, 2025
Source: YouTube
“At some point, you have to let them know that you won’t be pushed any further…” Uh oh. Briarcliff Ent. has launched the full official trailer for the movie titled Sovereign, an American thriller which marks the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Christian Swegal. Offerman fights back! This premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival earlier this month, and will be out to watch in July very soon. Inspired by true events and real people, Sovereign is a tense and provocative true crime thriller about a father and his teenage son — Jerry and Joseph Kane — who follow the “Sovereign Citizen” belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority. Their journey brings them into conflict with Police Chief Jim Bouchart, setting off a tragic chain of events that forces a reckoning with power, principle, and the limits of freedom. The film stars Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay, with Dennis Quaid, Martha Plimpton, Thomas Mann, and Nancy Travis. This looks like it all culminates in an intense showdown shootout with the cops, all because this guy lost his damn mind and turned into an anti-government nut job.
Here’s the main official trailer for Christian Swegal’s thriller Sovereign, direct from YouTube:
You can rewatch the teaser trailer for Swegal’s Sovereign film right here for the first look again.
Inspired by true events, this gripping thriller follows Jerry Kane (Nick Offerman), an out-of-work roofer and struggling single father who desperately tries to provide for his home-schooled 15-year-old son, Joe (Jacob Tremblay). Searching for control in an unforgiving world, Jerry embraces the sovereign citizen movement, indoctrinating Joe into believing that laws are mere illusions and freedom must be seized by force. As they travel around the country selling “debt relief seminars” to desperate homeowners, Jerry’s ideology becomes increasingly extreme and his grip on reality deteriorates. Meanwhile, Joe quietly begins to question his father’s worldview, dreaming of a normal life beyond their constant travels. Sovereign is written and directed by newcomer filmmaker Christian Swegal, making his feature directorial debut after a few other short films; he also wrote the screenplay for Proud Mary. It’s produced by Nick Moceri. This just premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival in NYC earlier this month. Briarcliff Ent. will debut Swegal’s Sovereign film in select US theaters + on VOD starting July 11th, 2025 this summer. So who’s interested?