I already knew about Reaper because Kevin Smith talks about his experience directing it on Smodcast 8, a fun installment of the director's podcast series, but the trailer has at last been unveiled, and you can see it here.For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, Reaper is a new TV series that premieres this fall on The CW, home of the wonderful Smallville. Basically, Reaper tells the story of a guy that, on his 21st birthday discovers his parents sold his soul to the devil a long time ago (such nice parents!), and now he's forced to be Satan's bounty hunter, so to speak. And for some reason (maybe some CW exec had seen Dogma, maybe they think this show has the same target audience Smith's films have), they asked Kevin Smith to direct the pilot. As I said before, I first heard of this project on the eighth installment of Smodcast, in which Smith rants about how horrible it was not to have the final word on the product. If you know anything about the director, you'll know he always writes and directs his own movies, so he is used to pretty much doing whatever the heck he wants to do. But not with Reaper. He had been looking forward to doing something like this, to see if he was able to direct something he hadn't written, and even though he kind of enjoyed some of it, he says he doesn't want to do it ever again. For more details about how Smith feels about it, check the podcast.
After listening to all this, I was certainly curious to check out the show --at least the first episode, since that's the one he directed. And now that I've seen the (long) trailer, I must say that it looks like a lot of fun. At least that first episode. I think it has an interesting premise that could be developed into a cool sci-fi/fantasy show. And since we all like fantasy and sci-fi here at Sunny Jhanna, we might want to check it out when it premieres. For the time being, enjoy the preview.
9 comments:
He visto el tráiler, y aparte de decir que a priori tiene buena pinta, quiero transmitir una queja a los señores de la CW: por favor, no más tráilers destripadores, que prácticamente me he visto el episodio entero. Yo sé que es un piloto, y hay que atraer a la gente al producto sea como sea. Pero un poco de respeto para los que queremos descubrir una historia sobre la marcha. Por favor.
En eso estoy de acuerdo. Cuando vi el trailer y vi que la cosa seguía y seguís y seguía, pensé "Bueno, ya no hace falta que vea el episodio".
Y hablando de eso, tal vez deberíamos escribir un post con los peores trailers de la historia, en el sentido de que revelan muchísimo más de lo que deberían. Uno reciente es el de Stardust, donde te cuentan prácticamente todo lo que pasa.
Pues todo tuyo, Fel. Me encantará leerlo. Y ver los tráilers de las películas que no haya visto, claro.
La verdad es que, aparte de Stardust, What Lies Beneath (de hace ya tiempo) y la nueva comedia de Ben Stiller The Heartbreak Kid, ahora mismo no se me ocurre ninguna. Tendré que meditar...
Pues a mí no me mires. Nunca he sido un prolífico veedor de tráilers, precisamente.
Aunque recuerdo que el de A Knight's Tale era bastante revelador cuando me topé con él en el cine...
No recuerdo lo revelador que ese trailer era o no era... Supongo que podría poner el DVD y verlo (si es que lo trae como extra), pero me fiaré de tu palabra (más fácil).
Pero que vago que eres, Fel. En bandeja te lo pongo, pues.
La verdad, no es tanto revelador como que te pasan la película entera en dos minutos y medio.
Hahahahaha. Gracias por el link. Mi paso a la Vagancia Absoluta está ya completo ;)
Otro trailer destripador es el de Evan Almighty, que si ya tenía poco interés en ver, el trailer hizo que fuera absolutamente innecesario.
Post a Comment