Wild New Trailer For Julie Taymor's Beatle-Themed Film Drops!
Filed under: Drama, Music & Musicals, Romance, Sony, Trailer Trash
Wow, now that was a nice surprise. Check out this rather lovely new trailer for Julie Taymor's Across the Universe and then come back and let me know what you think. To me it looks like 1969 meets Moulin Rouge ... or maybe Forrest Gump meets Sgt. Pepper. Either way I now have another movie title to add to my "oooh, gimme!" list for 2007. Written by veteran British wordsmiths Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, Across the Universe sure looks (despite my earlier comparisons) pretty darn unique!It's a story of love, lust and innocence lost in the 1960's, it's a musical, and it's all Beatles music! Neat! (The stars are Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson and the luminous Evan Rachel Wood.) Sony hasn't nailed down a firm release date just yet, but "September" seems to be the general consensus right now. Frankly I'm pretty darn psyched to check this flick out -- and this is coming from a guy who spends most of his days knee-deep in monster movies and stoner comedies. (And if you've never seen Taymor's Titus, I just now thought of a flick you need to toss into your Netflix queue.)
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2-04-2007 @ 3:56PM
BigTed said...
I'm not saying that this will be similar, but the 1978 "Sgt. Pepper's" movie was absolutely terrible, a star-studded mess. It put the final nail in the coffin of Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees, and '70s rock movies in general, and even made the Beatles seem a lot less appealing.
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2-04-2007 @ 11:10PM
Christopher Campbell said...
At first the trailer makes this movie seem like NBC's '60s miniseries, and any other amalgam of that decade, and it may actually be kinda cheesey as far as the story goes. But Taymor has an amazing visual sense, and some of the stuff shown in the last part of the trailer look brilliant.
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