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A red-band trailer has surfaced for Repo Men, the sci fi action thriller starring Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, and Alice Braga. Formerly titled the much more interesting The Repossession Mambo, I caught the script several years ago and it was one of the best that I had seen in a while. The film’s been sitting on Universal’s shelf for some time now, but hopefully that isn’t a reflection of the final product’s quality. I’m excited for this one; if it can retain the energy and promise of the screenplay, then Repo Men (as unfortunately retitled as it may be) could surprise some folks next year.
The story follows Law and Whitaker as best friends Remy and Jake, two repo men who work for The Union, a company that provides expensive artificial organs that are forcibly repossessed when clients can’t make their payments. They’re the best in the business, but trouble arises when a routine repossession goes awry and leaves Remy needing a transplant himself to survive. Suddenly seeing things from the other side, things get more complicated when Remy runs into Beth, an old flame who’s on the run after being unable to make her organ payments. When he joins her, Remy suddenly finds himself being hunted by none other than his former partner, Jake. The film also stars Liev Schreiber, Liza Lapira, and RZA.
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MTV’s got a new trailer up for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, and it’s got quips a-plenty, action in every frame, and style to boot.
Come to think of it, the Sherlock Holmes trailers that we’ve seen have been a bit of a mess plot-wise; that is, I still don’t have a very clear idea of just what the plot is. Mark Strong’s some sort of nefarious, perhaps supernatural villain, and Holmes and Watson are on the case? Anyway, they’re definitely selling chemistry and style more than anything else, especially between Robert Downey, Jr.’s Holmes and Jude Law’s Watson. And you know what? It’s enough. It totally works, and I’m ready to get to the theater just to see the two play off of each other.
The trailer finally gives Rachel McAdams something to do, though I still feel like her presence in the movie is being undersold here. Her dry delivery towards the end is one of the best moments in the trailer, and I think she’ll be just as integral a piece to Sherlock Holmes‘ entertainment and success as all the bare-knuckle brawls and one-liners.
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A couple of juicy rumors sprang up over the weekend.
First up was an interesting bit about Green Lantern. The film’s been struggling a bit recently, having been forced to move the entire production out of Australia due to the rising value of the Australian dollar (which is just a nicer way of saying the U.S. dollar’s in the toilet). AICN then broke what seemed like some good news though, reporting that Jackie Earle Haley was leading the list to play Sinestro, mentor to Hal Jordan before he flips sides and becomes the arch-nemesis of the entire Green Lantern Corps. While that would have been a great casting choice, the wheels of the interwebs got spinning over the weekend and it turns out that it may not be happening after all.
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Heath Ledger delivered one of his most unforgettable performances in last year’s The Dark Knight, but it may be his final turn in Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus that defines the actor’s tragically short career. From the trailer alone, you can see the effortlessly charming, darkly brooding, and completely singular energy that Ledger brought to his roles. It’s a shame we will never see the film as it was originally intended, but Gilliam has scrounged up a not-unflattering trio of understudies in Johnny Depp, Colin Farrel, and Jude Law to pick up the slack in the wake of Ledger’s passing.
We’ve already gotten a hint of the eye-popping visuals to expect from Imaginarium with the U.K. trailer that was released a couple of months ago, and the domestic trailer certainly reinforces that. The early word out of festivals has been that this is a return to form for Gilliam, with many of the themes from the director’s early, best works reasserting themselves here. Personally, I think it looks like Gilliam just let his imagination run wild here, and I can’t wait to see what he’s got in store for us this time.
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Check out the eye-popping visuals in Terry Gilliam’s latest wild ride of a movie. Read»
