‘Cosmopolis’ Red-Band Teaser Trailer: David Cronenberg And The Rebirth Of Robert Pattinson
Well, hello,David Cronenberg! In 2012 the director is going to unleash his second film in two years, and for those who thoughtA Dangerous Methodwas too dry, it looks likeCosmopolismight be for you. A teaser has just landed for the film, and it looksnuts.
The film starsRobert Pattinsonin an adaptation of a novel byDon DeLillo, and it looks like Cronenberg’s most overtly sexual movie sinceCrash, and his most visually strange sinceeXistenZ. What we see here of Pattinson’s character Eric Packer, a young billionaire with a rather specific and dark worldview, makes him seem to fit right in the mold of a classic Cronenberg character likeVideodrome’s Max Renn. “I’m looking for more… show me something I don’t know” could have come right out of Renn’s mouth. Check out the footage — which definitely isn’t work-safe — below.
There was a lot of hand-wringing when Cronenberg’s original choice for Packer, Colin Farrell, was replaced with Pattinson. But it looks like the chance might have been for the better. Seeing these hints of what Cronenberg has done with the character, and how messed-up he might be, I can’t see Farrell getting the same sense of open-mouth surprise out of an audience that Pattinson will. He’s not the guy that you expect to see doing this stuff, and that’s part of why this works.
(And does anyone recognize the music in the trailer? Could that be a taste ofHoward Shore’s score for the film? He’s done some great work for Cronenberg — theCrashscore is so wonderful, and strange — but if this is his work, it sounds like they changed things up a bit.)
Cosmopolisalso featuresPaul Giamatti,Kevin Durand,Juliette Binoche,Samantha Morton,Sarah Gadon, andMathieu Amalric. It doesn’t have a US release date yet. This teaser is for the French opening, which is scheduled for May 23.
