Must Watch: Fantastic First Trailer for ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’
Fox Searchlight has released the first trailer for Benh Zeitlin’s Sundance sensation Beasts of the Southern Wild. The movie won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and it certainly looks like something that could be unlike anything we’ve seen in a long while.
The film is set in a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee. The protagonist is a six-year-old girl (Quvenzhané Wallis) who exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
After seeing this trailer, Beasts of the Southern Wild has instantly gone to the top of my most anticipated movies for the rest of the year. It looks simultaneously fantastical and poetic and newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis looks like she is going to light up the screen. I can’t wait to see this modern fairy tale.
Check out the trailer below or click over to Apple for HD. Beasts of the Southern Wild will open theaters on June 27th.
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That looks amazing and I love the poster, too! Can’t wait to see it! Thanks!
Yea nice poster indeed! Thanks Aziza
Looks great. About time they got a trailer out for this. Been hearing things since Sundance! It looks and sounds a bit like the film Tree of Life could have been if Malick didn’t disappear up his own… sorry I’ll stop!
Drive by shooting! Terrence Malick is hurt!!!
This looks sublime! Definitely on my MUST SEE list for the summer.
Damn, this summer is going to be ridiculously loaded with movies!
Wow… this looks great. Obviously, there’s a Malickian influence to this film.
Yep, it should make for some interesting conversation down the road ah!
Yep looks fantastic, can’t wait for this.
Me too!
That looks great, very beautiful trailer. Like Steven said, it has that Malick feel to it.
Yea it does, that combination of visuals and music does remind of Malick’s work.
I hear nothign but good things about this film!! I am looking forward to it greatly
Yea the trailer really sold me instantly. Possible Oscar contender?
This looks wonderful! Great trailer.
Indeed! Glad you enjoyed it
Looks like an incredible film. Does anyone know who will be performing the soundtrack? I really like the sound of the music in the trailer.
Zeitlin wrote the music with composer Dan Romer who also happens to be the lead singer of the indie rock band Fire Flies.
Looks really fantastic and original. The response to it out of Sundance got me really intrigued, and the trailer’s just supporting that.
Yea I didn’t really pay attention to Sundance but the trailer totally sold me.
Didn’t know anything about this until just now. I’m sold.
Great, I accept Paypal, Visa and Mastercard.
Wow! Damm, it looks like one that I will cry through the whole time. I cry for a good story and then I cry for beautiful filmaking. This looks like both.
LOL well I do get shivers when I hit that moment when I know something is really great. But no, no crying ah!
I am hearing lots of buzz,but that trailer leaves me unimpressed.
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