Harry Potter, little orphan Annie, Liam Neeson, Mexican skeletons and South American drug dealers all star in a swathe of interesting new trailers.
First up, Daniel Radcliffe woos Zoe Kazan in What If (previously called The F Word), a hip looking anti-rom-com about a British med school dropout who falls for a kooky animator. Radcliffe and Kazan nail the nervy cutesiness, but Adam Driver (as Radcliffe’s weird best friend) steals it by shouting about sex and nachos.
There’s singin’ and dancin’ and sweepin’ in the Annie remake – with Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts Of The Southern Wild) belting out ‘It’s A Hard Knock Life’ to Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz. No sound of Jay-Z’s remixed score yet though.
Liam Neeson is looking mean and moody in A Walk Among The Tombstones – Scott Frank’s (The Lookout) gangster noir thriller about a deadbeat ex-cop who teams up with a drug dealer to find a kidnapped woman. Falling somewhere between Taken and Max Payne, it looks like a perfect match for Neeson's grit.
Channing Tatum, Zoe Saldana and Diego Luna all voice skeletons in the Del Toro produced animation The Book Of Life. Set around the Mexican Day Of The Dead (and feeling quite a lot like the old Lucasarts game Grim Fandango), it looks utterly gorgeous.
Finally, Jeremy Renner stars in Michael Cuesta’s (Homeland, Dexter) drug trafficking thriller, Kill The Messanger – the true story of a journalist who lifts the lid on a CIA cover-up in Nicaragua.
via Total Film
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