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Trade News | October 16, 2008 | Comments (20)

Wondering how anyone could possibly top the last several Movie Movies (I don’t even remember that they were called: Disaster Movie? Skullfuck Movie?), well don’t look know, but Ryan Phillipe’s next flick, Franklyn, looks like an unintentional Dystopian Movie. Seriously: How many dystopian movies does this spoof steal from in the trailer alone?

The answer: 14.

Gerald McMorrow directs (don’t worry; you don’t have to remember his name; you’ll never hear it again after this movie is released) and Eva Green co-stars. Described as “the story of four lost souls, divided by two parallel worlds, on course for an explosive collision when a single bullet will decide all their fates,” Dystopian Movie … er … Franklyn will be out in theaters briefly early next year before making a mad dash toward your local supermarket’s DVD bargain bin.


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Comments

It's very nice to hear The Fountain score has become the next Shawshank Redemption score.

I love them both.

Posted by: twig at October 16, 2008 4:12 PM

It should have been called F FOR FRANKLYN.

Posted by: Case at October 16, 2008 4:20 PM

*grrrrrrroan*

Ryan Phillipe...? Why are they still givin' him work?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 16, 2008 4:27 PM

It should have been called F FOR FRANKLYN.

Posted by: Case at October 16, 2008 4:20 PM

With themes and variations of Dark City.

Posted by: Alabamapink at October 16, 2008 4:31 PM

I started watching the trailer, and I was 44 seconds in when I realized you didn't say "Ryan Reynolds" was in this movie.

Godtopus help me, I'll watch anything with Eva Green, though.

Posted by: Indiebass at October 16, 2008 4:34 PM

I thought it said Ryan Reynolds and wondered why Dustin wasn't trying to justify going to watch this movie, and its existence, and a rant about how Ryan saves the movie from complete ass-crushing crappiness but he needs to get better roles because he deserves them.

Seriously, the lack of man-crushing and links to pictures of abs was worrying me.

Thank god it's RPhilly, not RyRey.

Posted by: Sabrina at October 16, 2008 4:38 PM

That mask reminds me of those little Mario dudes.

Posted by: prawntastic at October 16, 2008 4:57 PM

Comment about how I read Ryan Phillipe as Ryan Reynolds and thought of Dustin's man-crush

Posted by: Three-nineteen at October 16, 2008 5:09 PM

OK, my post was supposed to have a strikethrough line through it, because I did mistake Phillipe for Reynolds and didn't realize it until I saw the trailer, but then saw other people had commented on it. How the heck do you do a strikethrough line?

Posted by: Three-nineteen at October 16, 2008 5:12 PM

Franklyn? Seriously?

R-Phill had better knock down that door to discover a back-talking black puppet or I'm going to stab someone.

Posted by: Macafee at October 16, 2008 5:26 PM

Same as italics, but with the word 'strike' inside the brackets

You're welcome.

Posted by: the_wakeful at October 16, 2008 5:27 PM

Can someone please devise a new format for trailers?

That is, is it me or does every damn trailer follow the same tired formula?

Crescendo of music, explosions, "blah blah will collide."

It's supposed to make the movie seem UNlike any other, not identical.

Posted by: Recondite at October 16, 2008 5:37 PM

It looks like Jack Skellington: Action Hero.

Posted by: Roni at October 16, 2008 6:04 PM

This won't work Thanks, the_wakeful!

Posted by: Three-nineteen at October 16, 2008 6:06 PM

It looks like Jack Skellington: Action Hero.

I'd watch that.

When Halloween Town is threatened....by an outside force....only one skellington can save the day....

(bold letters) Jack Skellington, Action Hero

Jack Skellington: I AM THE PUMPKIN KING!

I'd even prefer it that Nick Frost narrated it as Danny from Hot Fuzz

Posted by: Renee at October 16, 2008 7:00 PM

Holy Happy Horseshit.....

My name is Rubble44....I'm not going to watch this fucking movie.....

In this reality or any of the other ones.

I've said it before and I'll say it again "Ryan Philippe is an actor best suited for silent gay porn". I wish I remember the review I read that in.

Eva Green is hot, but you have to have more than one facial pose. Staring wide eyed and crazy is good when you're the last girl at the bar and I've had a few cordials.....but after an hour or so, it gets tiresome.

Posted by: Rubble44 at October 16, 2008 8:04 PM

I gotta be honest, I think this looks really intriguing. I mean, I can see how it will probably fail, as it's already set up a "this is completely fake" scenario, but it's got a great four person cast in the leads, interesting costumes and settings. It will probably flop, as you've predicted, but I think you are railing much too hard against it.

Posted by: Audiosuede at October 16, 2008 8:35 PM

So... V takes on the Authority and crosses over into our world, all the while trying to defeat The Strangers who control our physical reality with large hats and CHRIST MIND POWERS!

Denis Leary was right...with hats that big, these fuckers must think they're God.

Posted by: Mike R. at October 16, 2008 10:56 PM

george bush doesn't care about black puppets

Posted by: schrome at October 17, 2008 1:18 AM

Looks like a very 'student' film but not necessarily terrible. Yeah, it's hardly original but I'd pull this out of a bargain bin in a second.

Or maybe I'm just getting a little too sucked in by that track from The Fountain.

Posted by: Christian at October 17, 2008 8:24 PM