In the trailer bin of late:
- A frog-without-fear does his best to defend Sector 2814 in another parody trailer for The Muppets, with Jason Segal, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, and a cast of many. (It’s the Muppets. I’m in.)
- A shirtless barbarian takes to beheading like it’s his business, which I suppose it probably is, in this violent R-rated look at
Khal DrogoConan the Barbarian, with Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rachel Nichols, Rose McGowan, and Steven Lang. (Hard to imagine this being better than the classic Oliver Stone-penned original. I presume this’ll be hagga.) - And the Oakland A’s get the Aaron Sorkin treatment in Bennet Miller’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, with Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, and Darryl Strawberry. (Looks…Sorkin-y. But definitely maybe.)
Good stuff. RE/ the new Conan trailer: I can do without the gratuitous fan-boy-oriented gouting arteries soccer-ball-beheadings, and without the fourth-wall-“the screenwriter’s not REALLY as dumb as this material”-anachronistic speech–but as somebody who was a fan of Robert E Howard’s vastly-underrated writing long before Ahnuld ever left Germany, I’m happy to see another riff on the stories. Hope it’s good!