In research for this post about this week's trailers, I've come across fan-made ones aka "speculative trailers" online. That's fine. There are fanfics out there that stoke the flames of on-going IPs and these spec trailers are no different.
Except, I've a bone to pick about the mislabelling. Many of the headers just have the movie title and the thumbnail, which strongly suggest that it's the trailer for the real deal. Until you click on the link to watch the trailer that you'll notice that they are just an assemblage of clips from other films. Yeah, I get that the header of the trailer is clickbait but this subterfuge just eats into my time when I could be... oh, I dunno, saving the world.
Or working on the magazine.
Yeah, most probably working on the magazine.
Anyway... here are this week's trailers.
This film is based on my favourite Supergirl run by Tom King and Bilquis Evely. Not sure how closely the film (starring Milly Alcock as the titular protagonist) will stay true to the book but with the inclusion of Lobo (played by Jason Momoa), it's starting to look like something out of True Grit, where the characters have to team up to fulfil some vendetta. If the inclusion of Krypto hasn't convinced you to watch it, the trailer got me right in the feels with Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" playing in the background.
It looks fantastic but I'm still not totally convinced that this would be a big enough draw for me. I think it has something to do with Jared Leto's Skeletor. He's less nasally—and I get that you needed to ground the character by making him less camp and more believable—but, at least, let us have that famous Skeletor laugh.
Okay, now we are cooking. There's a story and there's the dread. We see the use of found footage in the trailer, so that levels the creepiness of this liminal hellscape that Chiwetel Ejiofor finds himself in, night after night.
Everybody knows of Cape Fear starring Robert De Niro but not many knew that the 1991 version was a remake of the 1962 version. Welp, it seems that there's still breath left in the franchise as it returns for the third time as an Apple TV series.
Javier Bardem plays Max Cady, who is out for revenge against the lawyer (played by Patrick Wilson), who put him in jail. Bardem can play crazy so we are putting Cape Fear on our to-watch list.
This may bear echoes of Spring Breakers, but under Boots Riley's direction, this seems more fun. And less, female gaze-y. As madcap as ever, we see Demi Moore return to the big screen as some big shot fashion designer, whom Keke Palmer's character wants to steal from.
We still don't have a clearer picture of what Mother Mary is about (synopsis says that it's a "psychosexual affair between pop singer Mary [played by Anne Hathaway] and fashion designer Sam [Michaela Coel] when the former's need for a dress for her new tour draws them back together". The trailer looks pretty and the music bangs. I trust the director, David Lowery enough that I'd watch it.
A cast of powerweights (Carey Mulligan and Oscar Isaac) are gonna create the kind of drama that would keep you coming back to the next episode. The question is: will any of the previous cast members from the last season make an appearance in this one?
