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Comic-Con trailer goodies! Denzel Washington makes the apocalypse seem smooth in 'The Book of Eli'
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It must be something serious - his sunglasses are off.
The Road Warrior started it. At least for me it did. The first true post-apocalyptic film ever? Well just like any subject in film - that's pretty much debatable. I think it's 1955's The Day the World Ended, but I'm sure that there's a few more early candidates for the coveted "first ever" status. If you know an earlier film please leave me a comment or an email.
But for me it'll always be The Road Warrior, The Omega Man and Don Johnson walking his dog through the great American wasteland in A Boy and His Dog. Those were the films my generation first realized what the extreme, savage meltdown of society and order just might look like. And now that that generation's all grown up, and has their fingers pressed firmly on the film production button, (we don't have access to the "Big Button" just yet - the one that sends all those pretty little missiles up into heaven and then sailing back down again - of course I'm being wax poetic about the scariest threat to our world ever created...) we're filtering these early end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it movies we grew up on and are making new fresh hells to entertain the next generation with. Case in point: The Hughes Brothers new flick The Book of Eli. Check out this trailer:
Trailer Critique: The Road Gangsta. The Hughes Boyz haven't made a film in over eight years. Their last outing, the sublimely mortifying From Hell, was a nice slice of Jack the Ripper lore that felt almost too natural for a movie made by a couple of boys from the streets of Detroit Michigan. They've never worked with Denzel Washington before this - and its looking like quite the paring.
The Book of Eli seems like it's shaping up to be a real apocalyptic film. I swear I saw a chainsaw skid off of a machete in one of the quick-cut fight scenes in this trailer. I don't think any other actor working today could pull off wearing a pair of sunglasses during a nuclear winter. But on Denzel? Perfect.
My buddy Mark Reinoso, who writes the State of the World Examiner column, (an online hive for conspiracy theorists and minor Armageddon prophets) will absolutely squirm, foam, and froth at the bit when he sees this trailer running. He's an apocalyptic film junkie from way back...
Expect The Book of Eli on January 15th 2010. What a way to kick off a new year eh?
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