Sucker Punch Official Comic-Con Trailer Unleashed!
The San Diego Comic Con 2010 [tagged] Official Trailer for Zack Snyder's "SUCKER PUNCH" [www / tagged] has been unleashed! All my visual expectations has been thrown out the window with the barrage of insanity and epic geekness that I feel this movie has a love for. Criss-crossing time and logic, defying genres and preconceptions ~ so far this trailer (and the prior promo images) has me floored and humbled. Do I really have to wait until March 25th 2011 to watch this?
I thank the Celluloid Gawds that this movie will NOT be in 3-D. CLICK THRU for a brief synopsis of the movie, and check out Apple.com to peep this trailer in HD.
SYNOPSIS: "Sucker Punch" is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free to go where her mind takes her, but her incredible adventures blur the lines between what's real and what is imaginary...with potentially tragic consequences.
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung,
Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Scott Glenn, Oscar Isaac
Writers: Zack Snyder, Steve Shibuya.
ADDED 30.07: Interview Excerpt with director Zack Snyder [text via io9.com]
Zack Snyder: "I dream in a different way. I guess that's what our movie is about, for me anyway. one of the mechanisms of the film, or the procedural parts of the movie, is that when one of the girls fantasizes or closes her eyes, whatever you want to call it, their adventure parallels a little adventure they're doing in reality. Like, for instance, they need to steal a lighter that has dragon etched on it. It's the simplest thing ever. That's what they're really doing. Baby Doll's version of it is what you see, that's the movie — part of it. She closes her eyes, they go to another freakin' world, they fight a dragon, they have a B-25 with a jet engine, they finally slit the baby dragon's throat and then..."
