If there’s one type of genre film I always will end up watching (sometimes to my regret if they turn out to be awful) it will be the apocalyptic-themed film. It doesn’t matter if the apocalypse about to hammer down on the planet in the film is nuclear war, some cosmic event, zombies, the Rapture, etc. As long as the world is in the brink of snuffing out I will watch it.
To find out last year that Steven Soderbergh was going to make his next big project just such an apocalyptic film was exciting. He was to take the worldwide, multi-subplot storyline and a huge cast like he did with Traffic and substitute an lethal pandemic virus for the drug war. It’s cast was to include Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, John Hawkes and Jude Law to name a few. The film was going to be filmed around the world to truly give it that international feel to it.
Contagion will have a release date of September 16, 2011 and if any film really could benefit from a really great viral marketing it would be this.
Through the Shattered Lens 
The trailer reminded me of the trailer for Cronenberg’s Rabid. 🙂 The film looks very intense. Of course, I have a thing about germs in general…
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The CG germs in the trailer must’ve been quite a handful to watch through 🙂
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Here’s the Rabid trailer:
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Hey, look it’s Marilyn Chambers. 🙂
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That is nice. Mothers on the train foaming at the mouth and biting people. 🙂
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I was more upset by Santa Claus getting shot. 🙂
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Wow, That’s pretty awesome. 🙂 Having flashbacks to “Outbreak”, only kicked up a few notches.
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I actually thought the trailer reminded me of this classic exploitation Japanese end-of-the-world film from 1980: Fukkatsu no hi. You can actually watch it on YouTube.
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This is interesting. I’ll check this out, thanks! 🙂
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