Max Landis's new found-footage supernatural story is about some teenagers who gain mysterious powers through a mysterious substance they find, and all hell breaks loose.
Max Landis is John Landis's son, and who knew that lightning would strike twice in the same family? It's crazy that they both got major breaks in the industry without any help. I'm assuming that Max totally got his scripts read and financed with zero help from his father, because that's what all his friends keep telling me, so it must be that he just got REALLLY luck or is realllly talented. Chronicle will probably let us know which.
Here's the trailer, which features the empowered dudes bro-ing out with a camera and killing people who flip them off in trucks (which is exactly what I would do if I found myself with such powers):
Three high school students and friends make an incredible discovery, leading to them developing uncanny superpowers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities, and initially use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides soon begin to take over.
Chronicleis really about four teenage dudes who gain awesome powers of telekinesis through a "mysterious substance" they find. Do they find it in a science experiment gone awry? I'm only asking because the only thing I can think of when I watch this trailer is... Zapped!:
and Zapped Again:
But Chronicle will likely have no humor and lots of shaky camera. We ALL love shaky cam, don't we?
The film will be out on February 3, 2012 through Fox.
I heard a podcast interview with Max Landis, and having been a fan of a great script he wrote (that will never get made) called MR. RIGHT I was keen to hear what he had to say.
Well, he's not short on confidence, that's for sure. And he genuinely seems to have become successful from his own efforts and talent. I think he even admitted that if he was starting out in the 80's being the son of John Landis would have opened doors. But these days it's not really the case and he had to make his own way.
This looks interesting, but far too slick to be convincing as a 'found footage' film. Although with today's super high-def camcorders maybe it is plausible to get such beautiful image quality on the fly.
I haven't seen any of his work yet--I like where it's going in the previews up there; it's right up my alley, but I can't sit here and believe that his pop's name, even if it was just a whisper, didn't mist past the ears of someone in the biz. I mean, c'mon. It's not like the dude got off the bus from Missouri with dreams of making it in Hollywood--he's from Beverly Hills.
also, zwillis has it right: I believe that Max BELIEVES he has worked really hard. And I'm sure he has worked very very hard on his scripts and worked and fought to get meetings. Only, the truth is, no matter how hard he worked, if he weren't named "Landis" he wouldn't have gotten ANY meetings, ever, and instead of focusing on script-writing since he got out of college, he'd have been working a shit job to pay the bills, which he hasn't had to do. I just have to be honest and say I do not know this for a fact, but I'd be really shocked if Max has had any kind of a job other than interning for a big producer or writing his own script since he got out of college at 22. I mean, I'm sure that dad sends a check every month. And why shouldn't he? If I were rich, I would give my son 6 grand a month and not want him to work as an insurance agent for 30 grand a year like everyone else.
Money and names go a long way in helping EVERYONE make it in the film business, including Max Landis.
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"Another great thing about being 70,000 light years away from the nearest Starfleet vessel is that once we finally get back to Earth, we can makeup bullshit stories. Off the top of my head: 'We met Amelia Earhart,' 'We singlehandedly eliminated most of the Borg fleet' or 'Paris and I turned into giant pink lizards and mated.'"
By the way, doesn't anyone else wish he was remaking ZAPPED as a found-footage film?
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"Another great thing about being 70,000 light years away from the nearest Starfleet vessel is that once we finally get back to Earth, we can makeup bullshit stories. Off the top of my head: 'We met Amelia Earhart,' 'We singlehandedly eliminated most of the Borg fleet' or 'Paris and I turned into giant pink lizards and mated.'"
I heard a podcast interview with Max Landis, and having been a fan of a great script he wrote (that will never get made) called MR. RIGHT I was keen to hear what he had to say.
Well, he's not short on confidence, that's for sure. And he genuinely seems to have become successful from his own efforts and talent. I think he even admitted that if he was starting out in the 80's being the son of John Landis would have opened doors. But these days it's not really the case and he had to make his own way.
This looks interesting, but far too slick to be convincing as a 'found footage' film. Although with today's super high-def camcorders maybe it is plausible to get such beautiful image quality on the fly.