Fanboys Movie Really Will Be Released - Here’s the Trailer!
Posted on November 4, 2008 10:28 pm by doug
Filed Under movies, videos
Tags: episode 1 fanboys kristen bell lando calrissian seth rogen skywalker ranch star wars trailer weinstein company
Some never thought it would happen… and, of course, the existence of a trailer doesn’t really mean that Fanboys really will be released, but it’s one more step toward the possibility of the movie that almost never was to actually appear in theaters. It doesn’t mean it will be adequately promoted beyond this online trailer or that it will last more than a weekend in the theaters, but at least it will unspool long enough for me to see it on opening night with an enthusiastic crowd of geeks.
Click here for the all-new Fanboys trailer.
There’s been a lot of controversy tied to the film over the years, so much that until I saw this trailer I believed the project to be truly dead. From what I understand, the edits that were placed upon the original cut by the Weinstein Company have been removed, retaining the core storyline that prompts the friends to travel across the country just to break into Skywalker Ranch in hopes of seeing Star Wars Episode 1 before it was released. It’s not going to be just a low-brow scatalogical humor road trip movie that mocks geekdom. Sure, what I saw of it 2 years ago was plenty crude, but it’s more than that. It has heart and it’s a love letter to Star Wars geeks everywhere.
The only thing I’m sad that they didn’t mention was the fact that the movie also stars that chick from Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) and that dude from Knocked Up (Seth Rogen in more than one scene-stealing role).
Fanboys is (for now) scheduled to hit theaters on February 6th, 2009. Keep your lightsabers crossed, geeks.
And now that the election is over, may this be the last political ad we see until 2012…
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