12 posts tagged “trailer”

Go back one year and this was how Tom Beck was promoted in his first season of Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei. There were a few episodes I didn’t see, judging by this RTL promo.

Not that I will get to see it down here in Neuseeland. Those lucky Germans.

Normally I don’t get excited about sci-fi but this intrigues me:

Rosamund Pike in Surrogates

Here’s the trailer to US State of Play, which in the BBC original starred John Simm, Bill Nighy, James McAvoy and, in a minor supporting role, Philip Glenister. Unlike the Life on Mars remake, the comments on YouTube have been fairly subdued. No spouting about Americans ruining a good British serial by sticking Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck in it (originally Brad Pitt and Edward Norton), probably because Universal had the good sense to cast Helen Mirren (in Bill Nighy’s BAFTA-winning role) as well.

I can’t believe it. According to my friend Tanya, the Prime TV ad for tomorrow night’s Ashes to Ashes finalé gives away two major plot points.
   If you don’t want to know what they are and don’t want to read me whining, then stop here. Picture inserted to stop your eyes from taking in anything accidentally:

Ashes to Ashes: Keeley Hawes and Philip Glenister

Jace at Televisionary has seen the US Life on Mars and says it still falls short of the original (especially Jason O’Mara versus John Simm in the role of Sam Tyler), but his comments are largely positive. He does have a complaint that the final scene from the first episode of the UK one is not in here—so I wonder if it will creep up elsewhere, since it did impact on the finalé. Meanwhile, on his site was the following two-minute-plus promotional trailer for the première episode:

It’s the new US Life on Mars commercial! (FDA warning: contains 90 per cent new ingredients.) There’s new footage of Sam being hit by a car, this time in New York, and the look certainly is closer to the original, albeit Americanized. I am actually more encouraged by this than the first trailer with the David E. Kelley-produced clips.

Life on Mars isn’t the only show that has had a producer change and rejig Stateside. Knight Rider, shown as a telemovie earlier in 2008, has gone through many changes, though Justin Bruening and Val Kilmer remain. The rest of the telemovie, I have read, has been chucked out.

This is looking very, very good. Then again, fast editing made the Pierce Brosnan Bonds look good, too. But I think Daniel Craig will pull this off very well.

The trailer to one of my favourite films—but it’s very 1960s. A modern audience won’t exactly get excited over this. That’s ironic though: if you see the film, there are plenty of scenes which could be edited in a modern fashion to create a very impactful trailer. But since it was the 1960s, this was perfectly acceptable and there’s just enough of Sophia Loren in a state of undress to get her fans along. And plenty of Christian Dior dresses and shoes (oh, the shoes—they were in Loren’s contract and written in to the script as a fetish of Alan Badel’s character). Gregory Peck, meanwhile, is still one of the top stars of the time—doing a role originally written for Archie Leach (Cary Grant to the rest of us). Note the prominence of Henry Mancini’s name, too. 
   As a movie it holds up remarkably well, far better than the trailer.

Un pub pour le film Arabesque, de Stanley Donen, avec Gregory Peck et Sophia Loren.