Yowzas. Just another epicly awesome trailer for this movie. Not sure how it secured a PG rating, other than Warner Brothers must have some racey photos of the MPAA tucked away. The last two HP movies were PG-13, which was understandable for Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix.
But this one? This one looks even scarier and more intense than those two movies combined.
So I’m trying to figure out how the heck I’m going to play dumb enough and finagle my way into a test screening of Watchmen tomorrow night here in Portland, but outside of that I’m intrigued by this trailer for a flick named Franklyn.
The dystopian fantasy film is from first-time filmmaker Gerald McMorrow. He’s concocted a “split narrative set simultaneously in contemporary London and in a future metropolis ruled by religious fervor. It’s the story of four lost souls, divided by two parallel worlds, on course for an explosive collision when a single bullet will decide all their fates.”
Ryan Phillippe plays a masked vigilante detective named Preest, the only atheist in Meanwhile City, who is searching for his nemesis in the monolithic fantasy metropolis ruthlessly governed by faith and religious fervor. Bernhard Hill plays Esser, a broken man who is searching for his wayward son amongst the rough streets of London’s homeless. Sam Riley plays a heartbroken guy named Milo, who is desperately trying to find a way back to “the purity of first love.” And Eva Green plays an art student named Emilia whose suicidal artwork is “becoming increasingly more complex and deadly.”
That much we do know. How they all interlock and collide together we don’t.
The cast is good enough and the plot sounds interesting enough, but the trailer doesn’t do much for me. It’s okay, even though it seems shoddily put together (there are some weird transitions and it’s evident that right now a moratorium needs to be placed on recycling a Clint Mansell score). Hard to get a read on the movie because it’s going for the seductive play your cards close to your chest routine.
We’ll see. Franklyn comes out in the UK on January 30th. No distribution or release date has been lined up yet.
The fantasy novels have been optioned by Universal Studios in a seven-figure deal, with Red Eagle Entertainment producing the pictures. “The Wheel of Time” follows, among its dozens of characters, Rand alThor, the latest incarnation of a force for good called “The Dragon.” Rand is born to fight an evil character called Shaitan. “Wheel of Time” books have sold 44 million copies worldwide and spawned a loyal following. The four most recent installments have reached No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Jordan died last year at 58, but the final book in the series is still set for publication in fall 2009, with fellow fantasy scribe Brandon Sanderson writing the novels conclusion from Jordans notes and tapes. Having never read the books would fans be excited or filled with trepidation over this news? [Variety]
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