Sony Pictures is previewing "Anaconda," starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd as best friends who try to make a new version of the film but end up being hunted.

Paul Rudd arrives for the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2024. He will join Jack Black in an upcoming remake of "Anaconda." File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI UPI Actor Jack Black attends the American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award ceremony in April. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI UPI Steve Zahn arrives on the red carpet at "War for the Planet of the Apes" premiere in 2017. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI UPI Thandiwe Newton, a cast member in the sci-fi motion picture thriller "Reminiscence," attends the premiere of the film in 2021. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI UPI Cast member Daniela Melchior attends the premiere of "The Suicide Squad" in 2021. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI UPI

Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Sony Pictures is previewing Anaconda, its reboot film about a reboot film, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd.

Black portrays Doug, who is lifelong best friends with Rudd's Griff.

The duo decide to pursue their big dream of recreating the 1997 film Anaconda following a "midlife crisis."

The trailer released Tuesday shows the makeshift filmmakers taking out a $9,400 loan, getting a riverboat and recruiting a snake handler.

Things take a turn for the worse, however, when they accidentally kill their reptilian costar and search for another to star in the film, only to discover they are being hunted by "an actual giant anaconda."

"The movie they're dying to make? It might just get them killed," an official synopsis reads.

Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton, Daniela Melchior and Selton Mello also star in the film, which was directed by Tom Gormican from a script he wrote with Kevin Etten.

The film arrives in theaters Christmas.