Well the first real teaser trailer for Superman Returns is finally out (sorry for the earlier false alarm).
It didn’t really do much for me the first time I watched it, but I’ve since watched it a couple of times and it’s grown on me a bit. The thing I like about it most is the fact that Bryan Singer (the director) is paying so much respect to the Richard Donner version of Superman. Using Marlon Brando as the voiceover for the trailer is very cool and shows how much Singer wants to tie this into the original Superman. Along with that we see Clark as a youngster and him discovering his powers. Overall though, I still thing the fan-made trailer that came out a while back is more effective.
Personally, I still think they should have put this project off for a couple of years and had Tom Welling step in as Superman at the end of Smallville. This season Welling has really matured a lot and I think that in a year or two he’d make a great Superman. Of course I don’t know if he would have been willing to do that, and in any case it’s a moot point. But, much like the Aquaman series that won’t have anything to do with the appearance of the character on Smallville, studio execs seem to not have a grasp of the concept of tying things together.
Anyway, you be the judge…
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I think both are effective for different reasons. As a movie buff with prior knowledge that the movie would be coming out, I found the fan-made version great…and very professionally done (heck if I were WB I’d reward the guy and play it in the theaters sometime between the official teaser and the full blown trailer).
I just saw the official teaser for the first time in front of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (which, as an aside, I would say is the best of the Harry Potter movies to date and also had a great new “King Kong” trailer to boot). Again, as a big movie fan, between the music and the DC comics tag I had the teaser pegged in no time. When you heard Marlon Brando speak it was great…but a lot of the crowd still hadn’t picked up on what it was. You could start hearing some murmers when the Kent mailbox was shown, but it took seeing him approach Lois in costume before it really hit a lot of people…and that was almost 2/3s of the way through the trailer. Most of the people there probably have never seen the original. From that aspect I found it a very effective teaser to introduce the film to the uninitiated.
What a cool teaser trailer… I’m officially interested now.
Brian