Adrian Brody is an actor who seems ready willing and able to really branch out with his career choices. After winning his Oscar as an on the run Jew from the Nazis in The Pianist, he’s gone on to do all manner of crazy stuff. As a psycho of psychos in High School to a modern day action hero battling Predators to having sex with genetically abnormal species and even portraying the voice of a field mouse.
It looks like he’s continuing this wave of new and interesting roles in this latest trailer for Wrecked. Here he’s playing an amnesiac who wakes up battered and bruised in a car wreck with two other persons; both dead. Sort of a mashup between The Edge, Castaway, The Fugitive and maybe The Hangover? At any rate, this fairly high concept movie could prove to be quite exciting, intense and mind bending… or it might be one big pile of shit. Though my gut feeling lies with Brody and his choices of generally pretty decent projects to be a part of.
I know this came out a few days ago, but it wasn’t really mentioned around here; plus I kind of like the poster above. So check out the trailer below if you haven’t already seen it. Much like The Town, I suspect a lot of whining will be made over the trailer seeming like it is giving too much away. And just as I said when The Town trailer premiered, I seriously doubt the studio is that inept and it looks like there’s a lot more going on here than what we simply get glimpses of in the trailer. You decide; take a look…
Wow this trailer showed waaaaaay too much I think. Looks like an interesting movie though.
I don’t think the trailer shows too much. We still don’t know what happens to him. Just enough to get folks interested.
And bonus points for Brody for working on another Canadian production. Pretty sure this was shot on Vancouver Island. I vaguely remember an announcement about the production – certainly looks like the west coast.
I’ve kind of felt that trailers in general shows way to much these days.
On this one the thing with him being a robber and finding money in the trunk and stuff would probably have been nice to discover as the film moves forward. When I’ll watch the film now there will be no initial mystery in the beginning.
Granted, I don’t really know if that’s how the film will start and maybe they’ll actually reveal everything immidiately. But it sort of seems the movie will start with him waking up in the car there with both him and the audience out of the loop at first.
I remembered this thread last night when I watched the Devil’s presentation on the new features of iMovie and particularly their trailer creating software. How pathetic is it that trailers are so cookie cutter than they can develop a template for one?
In the future movie producers will just fill up a machine with various taglines and a randomizer will create a movie out of it in CGI.
True story.