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Russia’s 12 Angry Men Remake Gets a Trailer

July 9th, 2008
Written By: Marina Antunes

12 Movie StillSidney Lumet’s classic 12 Angry Men is one of those films one doesn’t really expect to see remade. The original still holds up beautifully and the fact that it is considered a classic puts it even further off the remake train but what happens when another culture takes the familiar story and puts their own twist on it?

Last year’s Foreign Language Oscar race was an odd one in that I had only heard of one of the films, never mind seen any of them. Out of the five, Beaufort, The Counterfeiters (our review) and Mongol (our review) have all been released in North America but no sign of either Katyn or 12 - until now.

Oscar winning director Nikita Mikhalkov’s film still doesn’t have an official release date but the folks at Sony Pictures Classics have released an English subtitled trailer for the film and it looks fantastic. Gorgeously shot and just enough of a twist on the original story to make it fresh, this is certainly one to keep your eyes peeled for later this year.

I’ll be sure to pass along the release date as soon as it’s available but for the time being, take a look at the gorgeous trailer below.

Trailer is tucked under the seat!

12 Movie Trailer

5 response about Russia’s 12 Angry Men Remake Gets a Trailer »

  1. 12 Angry Men has been remade a couple times, it is flexible enough (and broad enough) to be culturally-permeable and survive the various spins of different times and places.

    I’ve been waiting for “12″ for what seems like forever now. This can’t come soon enough. The stills for the film looked stylishly great, but that trailer simply pops in QT, leading me to wonder if this was shot in HD…

    Comment by Kurt Halfyard — July 9, 2008 @ 1:24 pm

  2. It’s funny; if I hadn’t heard so many great things about this, I’d be very against it. The trailer looks pretty, but still seems unnecessary. I only saw 12 Angry Men the one time for the review we did on the Cinecast and I can’t wait to revisit it. I look forward to it more than I look forward to the remake. Though I still want to see this new one for sure.

    Comment by Andrew James — July 9, 2008 @ 1:26 pm

  3. One of the things I really like about 12AM is that’s shot all in one room and that’s it and the psychological effect that implies (for the viewer and juror). I’m not sure all this “Children of Men” looking footage is necessary.

    But again, I’m optimistic and am sure it’s good.

    Comment by Andrew James — July 9, 2008 @ 1:49 pm

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