‘Gone’ Trailer – Amanda Seyfried Hunts A Possibly Imaginary Serial Killer
The first trailer has dropped forGone,Heitor Dhalia’s thriller about a young woman named Jill (Amanda Seyfried) who comes home to find that her sister Molly (Emily Wickersham) has mysteriously vanished. Jill is sure Molly’s been kidnapped by the same serial killer Jill escaped from two years prior, but the police aren’t convinced — so Jill takes matters into her own hands to rescue her sister.
It’s a standard-issue thriller premise, and there’s not much about the trailer that really setsGoneapart from dozens of similar movies. (The utterly forgettable, SEO-unfriendly title doesn’t help matters, either.) Still, there’s always the possibility it’ll wind up a satisfying if not especially imaginative take on the genre, and Seyfried usually makes for a compelling lead. Watch the trailer after the jump.
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What’s there to say, really? The trailer is neither so awful as to be worthy of ridicule nor so good as to be genuinely intriguing. Same goes for the cast (aside from Seyfried), which consists ofWes Bentley,Jennifer Carpenter, andSebastian Stan. And screenwriterAllison Burnett, whose previous credits includeAutumn in New York,Fame, andUnderworld Awakening. Maybe it’ll wind up being greater than the sum of its parts, but so far the parts don’t look terribly promising.
Also not very encouraging isGone’s release date, which falls onFebruary 24, 2012. For reference, this past February saw the releases ofI Am Number Four,Unknown, andThe Roommate.
Jill Parrish comes home from working the night shift to discover that her sister Molly has disappeared. Jill is convinced that Molly has been abducted by the same serial killer from whom Jill escaped the year before and that by sundown Molly will be dead. The police think Jill is crazy, so she sets out alone to rescue her. Is Jill mentally ill, merely chasing shadows, or will she find Molly before it’s too late?
