If Adrien Brody crashes his car in the woods, does anybody hear it? That’s one of the many questions that the upcoming film “Wrecked” seeks to answer. When Brody’s unnamed character wakes up in a junked car containing several bodies at the bottom of a remote ravine, he has no recollection of who he is or how the accident occurred. He must not only survive his wounds and the wilderness, but also piece together who he is and whether or not he took part in a botched bank robbery. Mixing survival and suspense, the trailer looks pretty damn intense, using the isolated setting to let the talented Brody put on a one man show. Currently set for a release date sometime in 2011, “Wrecked” definitely looks like a movie to follow.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have excellent on-screen chemistry and Greg Mottola is the man who helmed “Superbad,” so it’s surprising to see them involved in a project as generic-looking as “Paul.” Pegg and Frost star as a pair of geeks who meet a CGI alien (Seth Rogen) while on a road trip across the desert. The trailer makes it look like a pretty basic wacky buddy comedy, even throwing in “Just the Two of Us” for the soundtrack and having title cards like “It was the trip of a lifetime.” Presumably there’s more to the project than meets the eye, as it involves the likes of Jason Bateman, Bill Hader, Sigourney Weaver and Jane Lynch, but for now it isn’t worth getting excited for.
Director Patrick Lussier is arguably one of the only directors who really knows how to use 3D to his advantage. He knows it’s just a gimmick, and fully embraced that notion to great effect in his gleefully gory “My Bloody Valentine 3D.” The trailer for his new film, “Drive Angry,” has the same self-aware, trashy vibe, but adds Nicolas Cage and ups the campiness by about 1,000%. Escaping the depths of Hell to mete out justice to the cult leader that killed his daughter, Milton (Cage) knocks off thugs, evades a supernatural hitman, and one-hands a shotgun with authority. Full of muscle cars, ridiculous dialogue, and random eye candy, this trailer has everything the red-blooded American male needs to convince him to blow $8 on a ticket.
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