YOU’RE THE MAN NOW, ORC
When you hear about a movie which is described as Training Day meets Lord of the Rings, how can you not be EXCITED?
WHERE THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY
Prepare yourselves. We’re looking at you, Suicide Squad fans. Uh, we mean haters. Either way.
Netflix has been releasing a ton of original movies lately, and they plan on increasing that output next year. But few movies they release are going to be as high-profile as Bright, which arrives on the streaming service later this year. Now, a brand new trailer has been released that gives us a much better idea of what to expect, which pretty much looks like Lord of the Rings meets Training Day, as hard as that may be to believe.
David Ayer directed Bright for Netflix and this looks to be right in his wheelhouse. He stumbled a bit with Suicide Squad, at least in the eyes of many critics, but the movie did massive business at the box office. That aside, he’s generally delivered high-quality movies like End of Watch and Fury. There’s a lot of End of Watch in this movie, which was written by Max Landis (Chronicle). Netflix beat out a lot of major studios who were bidding on the project, putting up North of $90 million to make this movie happen. So this is a genuinely huge blockbuster movie that isn’t relying on box office to succeed. Considering that other studios were planning on making hundreds of millions at the box office with this movie, it’s pretty amazing to think that Netflix is only hoping to attract subscribers.
Bright stars Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace, Lucy Fry, Edgar Ramirez, Ike Barinholtz, Enrique Murciano, Jay Hernandez, Andrea Navedo, Veronica Ngo, Alex Meraz, Margaret Cho, Brad William Henke, Dawn Oliveri, and Kenneth Choi. The expensive Netflix original arrives on the streaming service on December 22. Just in time for Christmas. Who knows? Maybe this could make for a great non-traditional Christmas viewing with the family? But probably not.
TRAILER DAY
But there’s no need to wait until the snow begins to fall. You can catch the trailer right here: