"Cosmopolis" Trailer Reactions
I’ve been waiting for this day for nearly a month now. Like
many of you, my mind was blown back in March when the first trailer for
David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis arrived online. Since then I’ve been
desperately craving to see more from the movie, and sadly the new images
that came out one week later just weren’t enough. But tonight is the
night: we finally have the first feature length trailer.
Coming
to us courtesy of Allocine (via ROS), the new preview is just as awesome
as the teaser trailer and has the added benefit of being nearly four
times as long
"Show me something I don't know."
This looks wild, Cronenberg back with more debauchery. AlloCine.fr (via
The Film Stage) has posted the full-length official trailer for David
Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, starring Robert Pattinson as a billionaire who
takes his limo around the city for an entire day. Lots of crazy shit
happens, and I mean some seriously crazy things, as you'll get a glimpse
of in this.
Seems
like David Cronenberg is back to doing what he does best - creating
sublimely weird nightmares and slipping them into the arena of
mainstream cinema. It also looks like a peach of a role for Pattinson,
who's set to shake off his tween pin-up credentials as the film's
increasingly deranged protagonist.
I
was personally no fan of Cronenberg's last film, which hit the fall
festival circuit. At all. But with this trailer it looks like he's back
in the pocket I like. I mean, it's about a rich dude (Robert Pattinson)
taking his limo across town to get a haircut.
Adapted
from Don DeLillo’s novel, and starring Robert Pattinson in a perhaps
completely incidental headline-grabbing fashion, this looks like the
kind of lean, perverse futurism that Cronenberg has excelled at.
For those who suspect the 69-year-old of mellowing with age, Cronenberg has one last word: Cosmopolis.
This
trailer expands on the mind-bending bits found in the first, with a
great look at what will certainly be Pattinson’s meatiest role yet. I
love the imagery Cronenberg is playing with, as it looks to be something
straight out of one of his 80s/early 90s classics.
Based
on the book by Don DeLillo, the film offers the most promising
non-"Twilight" role for Robert Pattinson yet as the billionaire Eric
Packer who has one helluva day in his limousine. Sex, drugs,
hallucinations and more cross his path, and for anyone worried
Cronenberg had become respectable with "A Dangerous Method" he's in full
form here, even going back to his psycho-sexual roots in what looks
like something out of a Terry Gilliam film inspired by an LSD trip.
"Cosmopolis"
hits theaters May 23 in France. It's likely due in theaters in the
fall, and we'd assume with the Canuck connection Cronenberg will place
the North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
this fall.
Just
hours before Cannes film festival bosses Gilles Jacob and Thierry
Fremaux were set to announce this year’s lineup at the 65th annual
festival, a trailer for David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis hit the Internet,
confirming the film’s inclusion in the official selection at Cannes.
The
first few seconds of the trailer included the festival's signature
"Competition Officielle Festival de Cannes" stamp and golden palm logo.
Though
the credits recall Gaspar Noe’s ‘Enter the Void,’ that may just be the
result of ‘Void’ having the most striking credit sequence this side of
‘Se7en.’ The images on screen – from the parade sequence to Pattinson
doing damage to himself – seem to come straight from the world of early
Cronenberg, that dark twisted Canuck who made horror films that were as
cerebral as they were visceral.
This also features an amazing
cast – some of whom show up in this trailer, others yet to be revealed.
Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon and Jay Baruchel make brief appearances
while Paul Giamatti and Samantha Morton are barely glimpsed.
From
what little we have seen of David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, it’s clear
that the director has returned to the depraved and gruesome style of
cinema that brought him to the dance in the first place. In the movie,
Robert Pattinson plays a young billionaire named Eric Packer who simply
wants to go out and get a haircut, but along the way, he loses his
entire fortune and becomes a target for murder. Breaking out of the
Twilight mold, Pattinson looks like the perfect choice to play a
sociopathic youth with way too much money and time on his hands.
This
extended trailer illustrates the morally bankrupt world that Pattinson
lives in, and the manic, paranoid tone of the entire film. Cronenberg is
at his best when he introduces an audience to the seedy underbelly of
society. He did it in Eastern Promises and A History of Violence, and
Cosmopolis looks to be one of the director’s most corrupt worlds yet.
Reactions
to the Cosmopolis teaser trailer have ranged from eloquent statements –
expressing excitement for the latest strange and disturbing piece of
cinema produced by David Cronenberg (The Fly, A History of Violence,
etc.) – to somewhat less insightful comments (such as “WTF is this?!”).
To be fair, both “extremes” were quite called for, as that short trailer
packs a whole lot of madness into a slim period of time.
That’s
all to say: the newly-unveiled full-length theatrical promo for
Cosmopolis (see above) is probably going to prompt similar responses
across the board, especially since the trailer is structured more to
raise questions about the film’s storyline and content (as opposed to
summarizing them). An intriguing, but fitting, approach to take here, it
seems.
Well,
actually, it just looks f*cking awesome. If you're a fan of
Cronenberg's work then these two trailers should get you jazzed. I've
missed his surreal style for a while now and I'm genuinely excited to
see this. The cast looks great, even Pattinson, who carries a stigma
from the TWILIGHT franchise with him. However, the more work like this
that he does, then the easier it will be to forget his diamond-sparkle,
fangless vampire role.
Update :
I mean, being plucked from the Harry Potter supporting wings
and the odd pre-fame arthouse pic for eternal teen vampire glory aside,
signing on for David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis looks more and more like
the best decision Robert Pattinson has ever made. Now that the edgy
adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel is heading for a Cannes debut --
and with the fearlessly cold, cynical swagger RPattz displays in the
latest Cosmopolis trailer -- this is shaping up to be the career-changer
the erstwhile Edward Cullen has been looking for.
(...)
But
the new Cosmopolis trailer and Cannes announcement achieves something
no mainstream romantic vehicle could do for Pattinson: It suggests to
the uninitiated that there's something more to him than teen idol fare.
Looking at the new trailer, I can't help but think to myself: Cronenberg is BACK!
There's
a good reason Robert Pattinson's upcoming film "Cosmopolis" won the MTV
Movie Brawl earlier this year: it looks freaking awesome.
Hot
off the news that the flick will be making its premiere at Cannes this
year, the folks behind the movie released two new trailers that give us a
good idea of what we can expect when David Cronenberg's latest hits
theaters. In true Cronenberg fashion, "Cosmopolis" looks like it will be
dark, surreal and all around fantastic.
It also is Pattinson's
first chance to really flex his acting muscles in something that's not a
romantic film, a genre that he's been somewhat pigeonholed in ever
since "Twilight" first came out. Between this and "Bel Ami" being
released this year, we're looking forward to seeing a side of the
25-year-old actor that we've never seen before.
Dear Robert Pattinson,
I must say I never thought I'd see the day.
Let me just start things off by saying until now, I've only known you
as the twinkly Edward Cullen, who made me put my foot down and wipe the Twilight
movie from my memory with a simple "Hang on tight spider monkey". It
was you that put me to sleep as my girlfriend nearly wept at your
performance in Water For Elephants, and has since continued to pressure me to watch Remember Me. Perhaps the final straw came at the very start though, when you played the same bastard who collapsed the possibility of Harry Potter ever bagging Cho Chang. You may not know me Mr. Pattinson, but rest assured, I know you.
Despite my grievances, anger, and blind rage at my woman's lust for you...dammit I respect you. I just saw the trailer for Cosmopolis and
even though it has yet to hit theaters, bravo for doing something many
men in your position never accomplished. You've succeeded where Hayden Christensen, Daniel Radcliffe (thus far), Mark Hamill, and Ralph Macchio never
could. You became a sensation, an icon, the face of a franchise, and
you still managed to land an acting role where you escape the role. Not
just any role mind you, you're working with David Motherf****** Cronenberg!
The Fly, A History of Violence, and Naked Lunch. Impressive,
to say the least, that he found you worthy of a role in one of his
films. Not to mention you look like a total boss in that short clip.
It's too soon to tell but I dare say you will become one of the greats
in this industry. I have faith in it. Although I still dislike
you...kind of.
May you always sparkle in the sunlight,
Robot Reagan
Source => Robert Pattinson Life
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