In the trailer bin, Bill Murray dives into Cousteau for Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (I’m looking forward to the Henry Selick stop-motion stuff, which unfortunately isn’t in this preview), Jude Law gets increasingly overexposed in David Russell’s I Heart Huckabees (Can’t say I think much of this trailer, for some reason, nor of the “existential comedy” billing) and Chris Cooper channels Dubya for John Sayles’s political caper Silver City (Looks solid, but Richard Dreyfuss strikes warning bells…he can get real hammy when doing satire.)
Tag: Trailers
Law will tear us apart.
There’s talk about that Jude Law will play Ian Curtis of Joy Division in a forthcoming biopic. That’s pretty good casting (better, for example, than Ashton Kutcher as Flash Gordon), although after 24 Hour Party People I’m not sure a Curtis biopic is really necessary (but cast Paul Bettany as Bernard Sumner and we’ll be getting somewhere.) Also in the Jude department, the trailer for Mike Nichols’s Closer is now online, and it looks pretty solid, if you can buy that anyone would actually leave Natalie Portman for Julia Roberts.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly…
Also from Comicon, Touchstone previews the Hitchhiker’s Guide teaser. Alas, this is just a write-up…but hopefully it’ll hit the web soon. Update: Don’t panic…it’s here.
I shall become a Bat…
Also in fanboy news (there’ll be a lot this week, what with Comicon,) AICN obtains a description of the Batman Begins teaser. Hope it looks as good as it reads.
Cruise Control/Monsters on Ice.
A relatively empty trailer bin for a Friday morning so far, but we do have new looks at Michael Mann’s Collateral (this one gives away some plot details) and another take on Alien v. Predator (so does this one, but who cares, really?)
Being There.
In the trailer bin, Geoffrey Rush channels Inspector Clouseau, Dr. Strangelove, and countless others in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, also featuring Charlize Theron (Britt Ekland), John Lithgow (Blake Edwards), Stanley Tucci (Kubrick), and Emily Watson (Long-Suffering Wife.) Well, it looks like more fun than Shine.
Bells and Whistlers.
MSN gets an early look at the Blade: Trinity trailer. It’s basically just a lot of action shots in fuzzy WMP format, but, still, this could be promising. If you enjoyed the first two (as I did), this looks like more of the same. Update: Now in Quicktime.
Captain Kinsey and the Phantom’s Treasure.
Several new trailers have emerged since the last update around here: Along with a new look at Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (looks bluescreen-ish, to be sure), Liam Neeson channels Alfred Kinsey, Joel “I tanked the Batman franchise” Schumacher goes after Phantom of the Opera, and Nicolas Cage, Sean Bean, and Helen of Troy undertake a search for political booty in National Treasure. Of these new three, I might pay money to see Kinsey.
When Antarctic Aliens Attack.
Here’s another look at Paul Anderson’s Alien v. Predator, and it’s about as lame as the last one. Plus, as a purely fanboy grievance, Lance “Bishop/Company Guy” Henriksen seems to be screwing up the series’ continuity for a quick paycheck. Ah well.
Straight to Video.
Come to Butthead…A new Alien Vs. Predator trailer appeared last night during the MTV Movie Awards and, as feared, this looks like an embarrassing franchise-killer for Ripley’s nemeses. Pretty sad, really.