Bring 'Lucky Luke' Stateside!
Filed under: Action, Foreign Language, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Western, Trailers and Clips
As you've probably noticed by now, I'm a sucker for Westerns. It took me awhile to warm up to the genre. I live on the high plains and have one gig giving Old West tours in petticoats to my credit, so they were hardly escapism. Of course, now that I finally like them, there's just not that many being made. Lately, there's stirs of a re-imagining going on. Filmmakers and audiences are realizing Westerns can be fun again and in a repeat of the 1960s, the charge is coming from overseas. Film fans already know about Asia's madcap forays into the genre with The Good, the Bad, and the Weird, Sukiyaki Western Django, and the upcoming The Warrior's Way. But now France is getting in on the draw with Lucky Luke, and TwitchFilm has nabbed a trailer for it.
Lucky Luke is based on a French comic series, which (as per Wikipedia) was equal parts satire and good old fashioned Western. He's your typical lone gunslinger, wandering the borders in search of injustice, a heavy burden weighing on his shoulders, a deep characterization that's a bit at odds with its simplistic art. (He looks a bit like Woody from Toy Story.) How it spawned this crazy, stylish, bullet-ridden feature is a mystery, but it did, and I'm thankful. I'm desperate to see this, and to be better acquainted with Jean Dujardin. Ooh la la.
The trailer is embedded below the jump. Watch it, and join Twitchfilm, CHUD, and Cinematical in demanding a stateside release. You know you want to spend more time in this vision of the Old West.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-22-2009 @ 1:03PM
mdk said...
Bring it one, the comics were amazing. Wonder if they sneaked in that old Renegade Soundwave song, "Lucky Luke" into the soundtrack?
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10-22-2009 @ 1:11PM
Renton said...
I did not know that there was a new Lucky Luke movie. I grew up with the cartoons and loved the 1991 Terence Hill movie. From this trailer I can see that they kept it in spirit. There were always some gun battles in Lucky Luke and they were always this... exaggerated. He could draw before his shadow, you know.
Needless to say, I'm looking forward to seeing this.
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10-22-2009 @ 3:35PM
Julie said...
This looks pretty good!
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10-22-2009 @ 6:13PM
Shane said...
Holy Cow! I love goofy cowboy comics!
Check out the new western comic: Reed Gunther, the bear-riding cowboy!
http://reedgunther.com/
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10-24-2009 @ 6:01AM
Al Shut said...
The french site for the movie has more trailers but I really need to see some in a language I undrestand before allowing myself to get excited.
Lucky Luke is one of those childhood properties that would break my heart if they don't get the tone and fell at least 95% right.
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