‘Geostorm’ Trailer: Gerard Butler’s New Disaster Movie Looks Like A Disaster Of A Movie
I caught some ofIndependence Dayon cable during the Fourth of July, and was struck by how Hollywood doesn’t make many movies like that anymore. Sure, massive blockbusters with ensemble casts are a dime a dozen, but the disaster movie genre isn’t what it used to be.
EnterDean Devlin, the man who wrote and producedIndependence Day. His directorial debut,Geostorm, looks to singlehandedly resurrect that cheesy, ludicrously-plotted type of movie to theaters. If you’re looking for a film that features ridiculous concepts likeGerard Butler(300) trying to outsmart malfunctioning satellites that control the weather whileJim Sturgess(Across the Universe, 21) andAbbie Cornish(Limitless) kidnap the President (Andy Garcia), you’re going to love this.
Geostorm trailer #2
As Jacob indicated inhis write-up of the film’s first trailer, you’re either going to be all-in for this type of insanity or you’ve already clicked away because you want to get the stink of that trailer off your screen as quickly as possible. If this were five or 10 years ago, I would have embraced the silliness and seen this on opening weekend, but now I’m of the mindset that life is too short to wade around in bad movies – especially when there are so many classic films I haven’t seen yet.
Geostormis the first co-production betweenDavid Ellison’s Skydance Productions (theStar TrekandMission: Impossiblefranchises) and Warner Bros. Pictures, and all signs point to an ignominious start to that partnership. This movie completed principal photography way back in 2014, but the studio apparently didn’t like what they saw. Last year, theyordered weeks worth of reshootsto the tune of $15 million that involved recasting a character, adding a new female scientist, hiringShutter IslandwriterLaeta Kalogridisto contribute to the script, and adding more visual effects and music to the final product. Oh yeah, andJudge DredddirectorDanny Cannoncame in to direct the reshoots whileJerryfreakin’Bruckheimerwas called on to oversee the whole thing. (The official explanation for why Devlin didn’t direct the reshoots was that he was busy with another project.)Geostormalso starsAlexandra Maria Lara(Rush),Daniel Wu(The Man with the Iron Fists, Warcraft: The Beginning), andEd Harris(Apollo 13, The Abyss), and the film (finally) arrives in theaters onOctober 20, 2017.
