The Brothers Grimm

[Stefen]

7 Gilliam films over 7 years gives me a 7 year itch.

[MacGuffin]

Gilliam Talks Grimm
Director discusses dark fairy tale.
 
The gang over at Empire recently cornered filmmaker Terry Gilliam to ask for an update on his forthcoming movie projects. Gilliam has a couple of things coming up in the near future... The Brothers Grimm, the dark fairy tale starring Heath Ledger and Matt Damon, as well as the film adaptation of the macabre novel Tideland.

Gilliam revealed that Tideland is complete and that he's still tweaking Grimm. He says, "We finally finished that one, and we're actually finishing Grimm right now - we're in the dubbing theatres. So by the end of another two weeks, I'm a free man! And then we have to start selling the things. But I haven't had a film out since 1998, so it was about time I did something!" Indeed.

As for Brothers Grimm, which is still slated for an August release, he says, "Matt and Heath are totally convincing as brothers. They got on incredibly well, and hit it off. I didn't have to control them on set. They do all the work - I just have to nod occasionally, and pretend to know what I'm doing (laughs)."

[MacGuffin]

Trailer here.

[picolas]

i really hate that family-friendly announcer. he ruins all his trailers. when he stopped talking it was good, though.

[modage]

yep, announcer sucks the big one.  sets look a little cheap.  not sure what happened with the editing or marketing of this one but i'm going to drastically lower my expectations accordingly.

[Pubrick]

there there sleepy hollow the village

[Redlum]

I don't know why but Matt Damon really cracks me up in this trailer.

Quicktime released HD versions of the trailer now, too.

[cowboykurtis]

redlum your avatar is awesome - "hans christian anderson"

[mogwai]

don't you mean hans klopek? because the dude on redlum's av is not hans klopek.

[squints]

The fucking 'Burbs man....this is the same guy who was in the Great Gatsby...weird...was Corey Feldman in any movies with Robert Redford? or is that just a twisted wet dream i had

[Redlum]

Cheers. I think he's talking about when Bruce Derns character goes over to the klopeks and starts probing them and generally taking the piss. He calls the son HCA then but mainly latches onto Reuben - "Klopec, is that Slavic?" -  "NO!" - "woah, about a 9 on the tension scale their Reub"

[B.C. Long]

Wow, that trailer is fucking disappointing. Looks like Gilliam fucked this one up.

[RegularKarate]

Looks like Gilliam fucked this one up.

yeah, you can grasp from a two minute trailer that he totally "fucked this one up"... better move on to something guaranteed to be awesome like Deuce Bigalow European Gigallo because the trailer's so awesome.

[B.C. Long]

I didn't propose the idea as a definite fact. I said it "Looks (Appears) from the 2 minute trailer that he fucked this one up."

Considering that a trailer is suppose to show snippets of the best parts of the movie I thought it would have some appeal.

The trailer was awful and it looks totally commercial and appealing to the kiddies.

[modage]

yeah, but dont discount the evils of marketing.  you can bet Gilliam had probably ZERO control over that trailer and some market research assholes went out and tested it 100 different ways to maximize its commercial potential and what you get is a stale trailer.