Star Wars: Superbowl Commercial and Freaky New Posters
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, Newsstand, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips, Posters
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It amazes me how much Star Wars junk pops up online each day, and while this post started out about one thing, it's now grown large enough to house a few galactic tidbits. First off, MTV landed a look at our first movie-related Superbowl commercial, and it involves the flick Race to Witch Mountain, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ... and Storm Troopers? Check out the trailer below to see what I mean ...
Next up we have a trilogy of very cool Hungarian Star Wars posters for each of the original three films (courtesy of Superpunch), and tell me these don't freak you out. Especially the one for Empire Strikes Back, and those alien-like At-At Walkers -- or even the one for Return of the Jedi makes it look like some creepy underwater adventure ... or something. Check them out in the gallery below.
Also in the gallery below we have a poster for the book Deathtroopers, written by Joe Schreiber, which promises to be the first Star Wars horror story. Talk about creep-tastic, Shreiber added this about the book over on his blog: "I'm doing the final edits now, and I've tried to make it into exactly the kind of book you'd want to read if you were a child of the 70s who grew up with the original Star Wars trilogy and really digs horror in the vein of The Shining and Alien, with a little dose of William Gibson mixed in." Um, awesome? That's part of the poster up above; you can see the rest of it -- along with the Hungarian posters -- in the gallery below. [via StarWars.com and Slashfilm]
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1-29-2009 @ 9:41PM
Batzarro said...
That Wich Mountain trailer has me pleasantly surprised
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1-30-2009 @ 1:16AM
shadowracer said...
Oh S*!t. I can't imagine how many kids are going walk out in front of SUVs on Monday?!
I going to guess that won't be in the final cut.
Seriously Disney first the decapitation now this? Think about your audience.
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1-30-2009 @ 7:47AM
Prhime said...
that deathtroopers poster is nice. i do hope it keeps that old school horror because i cannot thin of anything that does just to the horror genre that was released within the last 5 years.
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1-31-2009 @ 2:50AM
YouFaceTheTick said...
Any kid dumb enough to replicate something they see in a movie or trailer (say, like Rudy) deserves the inevitable end they'll meet. The world is better off without the low hanging fruit...
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