This international one (for the Japanese market) apparently suggests that the filmmakers blew up Disneyland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeoUIjZKLSE
Or maybe that’s Paris. The EPCOT Dome sure ain’t never going to be the same, that’s for sure. I’m sorry, this shouldn’t fascinate me so. It’s just that I have no really good way to process this movie.
A bit less Disney’s Atlas Shrugged than the first teaser suggested.
On the other hand, there are proper spaceships that go up on a pillar of fire, and come down on a pillar of fire, as God and Bob Heinlein intended*. In fact, the entire thing looks pretty damned Heinleinian, mid-Campbell era: heroic engineers, technophilia, and the primacy of competence. Whether it also shares in Heinlein’s characteristic optimism remains to be seen. I certainly hope that they can manage the trick. Continue reading So, the new ‘Tomorrowland’ Trailer. It’s very… Bob Heinlein.
Here is the Super Bowl trailer in question:
…and I somehow missed this very important piece of information which the Mouse should have been blaring out:
Mind you, I think that I referred to this movie as Disney’s Atlas Shrugged at one point, and that’s still a valid observation. But I figure that the guy who directed The Incredibles can probably pull that particular project off reasonably well. It should at least take the basic concept seriously enough…
Moe Lane
PS: Seriously, how did I miss this? Or… did somebody tell me, and it didn’t register? I am comfortably in the grips of middle age by this point, and I’ve never been blessed with a perfect memory, to put it mildly.
Looks interesting.
And I actually like George Clooney as an actor, so that’s not a turnoff for me.
