MONSTER TRUCKS Trailer Here is the first MONSTER TRUCKS trailer! The film, directed by Chris Wedge (Epic, Ice Age), stars Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, Rob Lowe, Barry Pepper, Frank Whaley, and Danny Glover. MONSTER TRUCKS will be released in theaters on January 13, 2017. Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Lucas Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.