Trailer Tuesday: El Camino: Breaking Bad, Dickinson, Dark Waters
Stephen King is demonstrating what happens if you don't eat your greens, a child develops superpowers and a new breaking bad movie teaser makes you want more. Plus: Dickinson on Apple TV+ and polluted waters in the cinema.
It hasn't been the week of mega blockbuster trailers, but of low-key jewels. More so the week of little treasures to discover. Some of them actually look promising and deserve more attention than they probably will get.
In the Tall Grass
I wrote this paragraph at least five times, then rewrote it, deleted it and started over again. It just sounds too ridiculous: evil, tall grass captures people who run into it in a kind of space-time loop and makes them experience horrible things. The only thing worse for them than getting lost in it is being found in it.
I told you. Ridiculous. But the movie is based on a Stephen King novel – admittedly, that's not always a good sign – and the trailer looks promising.
Start date: 4 October 2019, Netflix
Raising Dion
None of the newer Netflix series are really good, in my opinion. But «Raising Dion» has potential. It's about a little boy called Dion, whose father – played by «Creed» actor Michael B. Jordan, who also co-produces the series – dies and is raised by his mother. What's special: Dion suddenly develops superpowers.
There might be some well-known elements from superhero dramas: the evil government, for instance, which wants to strap children with supernatural gifts to a bed and examine them. But the trailer suggests that there is an emotional core to the story, which adds a lot more depth to this story than is usually the case.
Start date: 4 October 2019, Netflix
El Camino: Breaking Bad
A teaser was released last week, showing flashbacks of the Breaking Bad series 1 to 5. The first actual teaser of the movie has now followed. Does it show more? Hardly. It's meant to whet our appetite for what's coming soon. And I'm definitely hungry.
Start date: 11 October 2019, Netflix
Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was one of the most significant American poets ever. She was ahead of her time in terms of style. But Dickinson was also known to particularly shy. She spent most of her life in her house. However, this didn't limit her works but sparked her imagination: very few people were able to transform such a small and simple world as the one she lived in into such a grand universe.
Damn it. All these trailers of Apple TV+ shows. This has to stop. I've been saying to myself for a long time: no, Luca, you're not subscribing to that service, too. That’s madness. After Netflix, Prime and probably Disney Plus – do you want to be another victim of streaming services?
Apple TV+ couldn’t care less. They release one trailer after the other and my reaction to almost all of them is: I have to see this. And this. And I can’t miss that either. Darn you, Apple.
Start date: 1 November 2019, Apple TV+
Dark Waters
Following a true story: a lawyer, played by Mark Ruffalo, discovers the dark secret of one of the largest and most powerful pharmaceutical companies in the world and fights for the powerless people who live in the city.
Looks like an amazing legal thriller. And Ruffalo is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated actors in the world.
Release date in Swiss cinemas: 22 November 2019
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I'm an outdoorsy guy and enjoy sports that push me to the limit – now that’s what I call comfort zone! But I'm also about curling up in an armchair with books about ugly intrigue and sinister kingkillers. Being an avid cinema-goer, I’ve been known to rave about film scores for hours on end. I’ve always wanted to say: «I am Groot.»