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Bad Robot’s ‘Overlord’ Trailer Injected With Ultimate Mayhem and Carnage!
Ahead of tonight’s San Diego Comic-Con, Paramount has surprised us all by declassifying the red band trailer for the top secret Overlord, a WWII genre film that looks straight out of “Wolfenstein”.
The trailer is ridiculously exciting and is jam-packed with nonstop action. Blasting AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells”, Paramount is signaling to us that they think this is going to be a “fun” horror film, and show enough over-the-top footage that it’s hard not to grin from ear to ear. From what we can gather from the trailer, it looks as if these soldiers are going to have to go into battle against undead-ish super soldiers, created by some sort of Nazi serum. The biggest mystery box that this J.J. Abrams-produced horror film presents is the question as to who is behind the door at the end of the trailer? Hitler?
And for those asking about its possible Cloverfield connection, Bloody Disgusting confirmed with Paramount that this will not be part of the Cloverfield Universe.
In Overlord, “On the eve of D-Day, a group of American paratroopers are dropped behind enemy lines to carry out a mission crucial to the invasion’s success, but as they approach their target, they begin to realize there is more going on in this Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation. They find themselves fighting against supernatural forces, part of a Nazi experiment.”
Directed by Julius Avery, the film stars Jovan Adepo and Wyatt Russell (“Black Mirror”), with Jacob Anderson (“Game of Thrones”), Dominic Applewhite (The King’s Speech), Pilou Asbaek (“Game of Thrones”), Iain de Caestecker (“Marvel’s AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.”), John Magaro (The Big Short), Mathilde Ollivier (The Misfortunes of Francois Jane), and Bokeem Woodbine (“Fargo”).
Paramount Pictures will release the film on November 9, 2018.
Wyatt Russell as Ford in the film, OVERLORD by Paramount Pictures
Mathilde Ollivier as Chloe in the film, OVERLORD by Paramount Pictures
Jovan Adepo as Boyce in the film, OVERLORD by Paramount Pictures
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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