Though the film has gone through a bunch of titles (Tonight, He Comes, John Hancock), they've finally settled on Hancock, and the first trailer for the film has arrived online (courtesy of JoBlo). In Hancock, Will Smith plays a superhero named Hancock who's fallen on hard times, and when he hires a PR exec (Jason Bateman) to correct his image, Hancock winds up falling for the dude's wife (Charlize Theron). What are we getting here? Well, the first trailer shows us tons of special effects and a lot of comedy mixed together -- all of it to the tune of hip hop. Funny thing is, the film isn't even listed as a comedy -- IMDb has it as a action drama/fantasy -- though they're clearly going for laughs in this first bit of marketing material.
And you know what, those laughs are actually pretty funny. Like the part when Hancock looks at the YouTube clip of himself saving a beached whale. Only, when he throws the whale back out to sea, it lands on a lone sailboat way out in the ocean. "I don't even remember that ," he says. Bateman replies, "Green Peace does." There's a bunch of stuff like that here; apparently they're setting up the fact that Hancock (who looks like a homeless guy) keeps trying to save the day, though he causes a ton of destruction in the process. It's like the anti-superhero movie, and it definitely looks like it belongs in the summer popcorn fluff category. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Directed by Peter Berg, Hancock arrives in theaters on July 2, 2008.
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12-17-2007 @ 12:49PM
John R said...
why can't more sites just post on youtube. it just makes life easier.
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12-17-2007 @ 12:59PM
Claudia Lomelí said...
Looks cool, and it looks like a comedy instead of a drama. A dramedy maybe? But how comes there are really no references about Hancock having the hots for the P.R.'s wife?
Could somebody please, please, please post the teaser on YouTube, the stupid JoBlo video player didn't load the entire clip.
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12-17-2007 @ 2:00PM
Kyle said...
Will Smith and Peter Berg I am there.
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12-18-2007 @ 4:57AM
Great White Snark said...
Eh. I'm highly skeptical of any superhero parody movie... seeing as there's *never* been a good one!
In fact, back when Hancock was first announced, I wrote about in a post called "Five Movies That Remind Us What’s Wrong with Superhero Parodies":
http://www.greatwhitesnark.com/2007/07/25/five-movies-that-remind-us-whats-wrong-with-superhero-parodies/
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1-02-2008 @ 10:22AM
Chris said...
This looks really hilarious. I laughed for minutes after I watched the trailer.
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