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Lockout Trailer: So It's A Besson-Produced Sci-Fi Space-Battle Jailbreak Film That - Wait, Did You Say Guy Pearce? Sold.

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (13)

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It feels like Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Leon) directs a movie about once every three or four years these days, instead spending his time writing and producing and finding new film makers to inherit his vivid, frenetic directing style. He wrote the script for Lockout, and then handed the directing reins over to James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, and what came out is… interesting.

It’s a detective piece, about a man wrongly accused (Guy Pearce) who must rescue the President’s daughter (Maggie Grace) — in the midst of a prison riot. That takes place in outer space. That’s my kind of crazy plot. The trailer is actually brilliant, mainly because it’s 45 seconds of hyper-edited sci-fi madness bookended by a gloriously dry, acerbic interrogation scene with Pearce getting his face knocked in while still tossing out one-liners. Coupled with some clever title-carding, and you’ve got the rare well-made trailer.

Take a look. It’s a little NSFW for colorful language:

In case you’re wondering, yes, that’s Peter Stormare doing the interrogating, and as we all learned from Constantine, all things are made better with a little Peter Stormare.









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Comments

"all things are made better with a little Peter Stormare".
Except Leverage. God that was painful episode.

Posted by: Stella at December 6, 2011 10:44 AM

um, we learned that from fargo.

Posted by: gp at December 6, 2011 10:44 AM

It seems that we get so few sci-fi movies that are even remotely decent that even the chance, the small chance, that this will be watchable means I must see it.

Posted by: admin at December 6, 2011 11:01 AM

"all things are made better with a little Peter Stormare".
Except Leverage. God that was painful episode.

Posted by: Stella at December 6, 2011 10:44 AM

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And cleavage. That's no good with Peter Stormare. The amount of times I've been ogling a girl from the side, waiting for her to turn around; anticipating the beautiful cleavage sure to come, when BAM! - Peter Stormare's heavy lidded eyes and crazy hook nose are suddently staring right at me from between her breasts. It's not fun. Ladies, if you're going to wear a low-cut top in order to show off your cleavage - for whatever reason - please remember to leave your Cleavage Stormare at home, because I may be used to it by now, but I don't want some poor kid out on the pull for the first time to have to experience such a disquieting sight. Thank you.

Posted by: zeke the pig at December 6, 2011 11:13 AM

That episode of Leverage might have been saved if they went Japanese-Office homage instead.

Posted by: shawnp at December 6, 2011 11:28 AM

Somebody get John Carpenter on the blower!

A former government agent turned convicted felon is offered his freedom if he infiltrates a penal colony over-run with violent prisoners to rescue the President's daughter.

Hmmmmm............

Aside from the new setting of the prison, it sounds it was culled from the Escape From New York/L.A. cloth. Interesting since one of the rumored plot twists for another Snake Plissken sequel was that it was either going to be "Escape from Planet Earth" or "Escape TO Planet Earth". And considering how screwed up the world was left in the last movie, a penal colony in orbit would be about the only place that wouldn't have been affected.

Guy Pearce plays Kurt Russell's Snake and Peter Stormare plays Lee Van Cleef's Hauk. Tell me, is it really that hard to switch characters saying those same line in your head.

Posted by: bleujayone at December 6, 2011 11:38 AM

Trampolining? Do I need to go to urban dictionary?

Posted by: Mrcreosote at December 6, 2011 11:44 AM

1. That's my kind of crazy. I. AM. SOLD.

2. Everything's better with Stormare. Even Leverage. Possibly even cleavage.

3. John Carpenter would definitely like a word.

4. Guy Pearce! Why oh why did he do so many awesome movies and then so many SHITTY FUCKING movies? He is bad-ass, and should only be given bad-ass movies to do.

Posted by: MM at December 6, 2011 1:36 PM

Did anybody else get a little Tyler Durden channeling in that interrogation scene?

Ah Lou, come on man, we really like this place.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at December 6, 2011 2:07 PM

Guy Pearce! where the hell have you been?! You're the reason Jeremy Renner is in Avengers, Ghost Protocol and Bourne.

also, the trailer was cool until that Lost chick showed up. she better not sound like 14 year old again.

Posted by: haplo at December 6, 2011 2:31 PM

"He is bad-ass, and should only be given bad-ass movies to do."

LA Confidential would beg to differ with you, although he turned kind of bad-ass at the end.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert would also like a few words...

Posted by: Three-nineteen at December 6, 2011 2:38 PM

VERY Durden-esque.

I loved the bit where he laughs at his own clever-ness.

Very clever.

Posted by: grendel at December 6, 2011 5:59 PM

Did anybody else get a little Tyler Durden channeling in that interrogation scene?

Yes. He even sounded a little like Brad Pitt.

Posted by: Lauren at December 6, 2011 9:47 PM