JACK THE GIANT KILLER TRAILER MOVIE
The advantage, and in some ways the disadvantage, of a movie based on the Jack the Giant Killer mythology is that few audience members will have much recollection of the original legend. The aforementioned oversized creatures live in a fantasy land above the clouds, where Jack must travel with the help of the leader of the king's elite guard (McGregor). Jack the Giant Slayer appears to have less of a postmodern slant than any of the above: rather, it's the simple tale of a young farm boy (Hoult) who must rescue a beautiful princess (Tomlinson) from her giant captives at the behest of her royal dad (McShane).
JACK THE GIANT KILLER TRAILER UPDATE
The film, which has been delayed by studio Warner Bros for a year while Singer got to grips with the challenge of 3D, clearly falls into the same category as Disney's 2010 blockbuster Alice in Wonderland, the Kristen Stewart vehicle Snow White and the Huntsman and the upcoming Sam Raimi effort Oz: The Great and Powerful, as well as (to a lesser extent) Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, in the sense that it's an epic update on a homespun children's story. Jack the Giant Slayer was even filmed in the UK, on location in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Norfolk. Of the North American types, Stanley Tucci plays the main villain in distinctly plummy home counties tones. Jack the Giant Slayer, the latest trailer for which hit the web this week, comes with an array of them (though one wonders if Nicholas Hoult might have tried a Cornish twang in tribute to the original folktale's likely origins).Įwan McGregor (in English mode), Bill Nighy, Ian McShane and Eddie Marsan join London-born actor Eleanor Tomlinson in the cast, and Singer has even borrowed old pal Ian McKellen from The Hobbit to do the gravitas-laden narration.
In the wake of the aforementioned fantasy blockbusters, it's fairly obvious to anyone with half a brain that US audiences quite like their fantasy epics served up with British accents. Keanu Reeves, perhaps, or if we were really unlucky one of the lesser Baldwins. Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer (previously known as Jack the Giant Killer) is the kind of movie that even 15 years ago would have had some swaggering Hollywood A-lister parachuted into the lead, complete with incongruous accent and LA swagger.
How wonderful it is to be a British actor in this post- Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter era.
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