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Bruckheimer, Cage, And Turteltaub's SORCERER'S APPRENTICE Trailer Is Here!!
Merrick here...
Jerry Bruckheimer, Jon Turteltaub, and Nicolas Cage - who've previously brought us both NATIONAL TREASURE films - have reunited for THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE.
The film stars Jay Baruchel (TROPIC THUNDER, NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2) as a hapless kid who apprentices Cage's...well...Nic Cageish sorcerer.
Despite its title, this trailer appears to have little in common with the either Goethe's progenitor poem from 1797, or the FANTASIA short which it inspired. Maybe that's just a trailer phenomenon & the film will at least have a few of the tale's signature moves?
Here's the new trailer - what do you think?
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Here's Disney's interpretation of the material from back in the day. For fun...
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Nicholas Cage = steaming pile of overrated giraffe shit (when he's not playing drunk or redneck).
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not the trailer mind you but being first an all. oh well
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That's always a good sign.
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And team up with Frankenstein and the Mummy? That's what I'm wondering.
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Van Helsing's Box office. I expect it will make at least $5 or $10 more. Maybe as much as $15.
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When I first watched the trailer for "Push". And we all know how that turned out.And comparisons to Percy Jackson or Harry Potter really aren't fair. Better to compare it to Eragon, or The Seeker.
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will there be a story to go with the wizbang? I know apprentice is in the title, but did he have to be the typical annoying teen?
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I don't like how they keep featuring odd Asian things like it's going to make me wan to think it's a better movie. What, because it's ethnic? Stop being so naive, Disney.Either way, looks better than Potter 7 rubbish anyday. NIC CAGE...eh can't think of anything catchy save for: What the fuck are these iguanas doing on my coffee table? Now repeat that line 10x, add in some funky music, and we have ourselves a magical WINNER of a film!
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Don't think i'll be seeing this.
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Pure pablum,when defined as insipid. The further dumbing down of the industry continues under Bruckheimer.
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People, we need to plot the assassination of Nic Cage!
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It looks pretty good. I watched them film one scene on the NYU campus.
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You obviously haven't. Cage is a talented entertainer...and he deserves props for winning leading roles despite having an extremely ugly face. That alone speaks to his phenomenal talent.
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so he´s doing all these non-studio pictures, Wicker Man, Next, Bangkok Dangerous, Season of the Witch, Drive Angry. They still pay him his ask whereas studios won´t unless he´s in a Bruckheimer movie.
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I honestly was thinking that is how a live action version of that series would start off. F/X wise, this looks pretty top notch.
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and thats about it. There was a very brief scene towards the end with the Jay dealing with the brooms, so that was kind of cool. did love the car/mirror shot.
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Looks good, should be a Dr. Strange movie.
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End of the trailer, right before "Are you insane?"
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It looks like it has a mop scene, which would be a Fantasia nod.
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The Movie. I guess when Hollywood can't do a remake they simply rehash the concept. Say hello to the wizard genre.
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Except it has Nic Cage in it. His presence in a film is starting to mean "SHIT AHEAD". Let's hope he lucked into a good script when he was signing up for his next paycheck.
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The apprentice is throwing a mop and standing ankle-deep in water at 2:13 in the trailer.
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probably HAD to put something in it to get permission from Disney to call it that.
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...the worst trailer I have seen in some time.
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Harry Potter meets a big bucket of shit.
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Dec 09, 2009 9:39:59 AM CST
"Fun and instantly forgettable"..OGoncho hit the Nail hit on hea
by conspiracy
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Maybe in London some dork like Potter could get away with pulling out a wand and playing around, ...but you start throwing blue fire and shit around in New York, waving a wand and acting all magical; well somebody is going to drop you like a rock and take your wallet.
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Iron Man 2
Inception
Toy Story 3
Twilight: Eclipse
Prince of Persia
Sex and the City 2
Predators
The Last Airbender
Little Fockers
Shrek Forever After
The A-Team
The Karate Kid (Kung-Fu Kid)
eeehhh.......... Full? -
Looks like what I would simply catagorized as 'fun'. A good time with the wife and kids at a matinee. Cage is usually solid but I'm a tad skeptical of him as the Sorcerer. A rental for sure.
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Cage? Bruckheimer? We have movie fail people! With the exception of the Pirates films, and I only moderately enjoyed them, in fits and starts, I shudder every time I see that tree catch lightning signaling we're in for a Bruckheimer 'film'.
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Dec 09, 2009 9:56:18 AM CST
conspiracy....what version of New York City are you living in?
by chakraborty
New York is the most welcoming city to freaks of all kinds. For example, there's one guy who walks his cat regularly by letting him sit atop his head...and whole hosts of other freaks. Someone carrying a wand would blend right in.
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for 64-bit pc's?
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This looks terrible. Cookie-cutter all the way. And why does anyone think Cage is a good actor? This man has about as much range as Cruise, as in ZERO. One would think an "actor" who is paid millions of dollars could, between movies about war, comedy, drama and now fantasy, come up with some sort of character besides his cardboard self. The Sorcerer in Fantasia, an animated guy with two minutes of screen time and no lines to speak, gives a much better performance.
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Manhattan? Sure, anything goes there. Brooklyn? Watch your ass.
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Pretty kickass, actually. Might be interesting. That metal dragon is awesome, as is the eagle/gargoyle. If there's one thing CGI does well, it's animated metal. Now I'm suddenly interested in this movie, so the trailer did its job...
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Lookin' too good. Nic Cage "characters" have literally devolved into differentiation in hairstyle. He didn't even change his voice or physicality in the vaguest of ways to play a powerful sorcerer? What the hell man? You won an Oscar. I know you are in desperate need of cash (which seems hilariously impossible to me, considering you make more movies for higher paychecks than anyone working in Hollywood today...but then again you named your son Kal-El, so who know whats the fuck you do with your time) but really dude, can't you at least try? He looks so out of place in that trailer its amazing. He looks like the killer from Jeepers Creepers but not an actual monster. I believe this will fail.
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Could be cool. Yes, yes, I know, original ideas are few and far between in Hollywood but at least this isn't a crappy graphic novel conversion or loaded with shakey-cam.
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Ballsy move by the people who put the trailer together, throwing some Depeche Mode in there (the music in the 2nd half is a remixed version of "A Pain That I'm Used To")...Good choice trailer makers!
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"Fun and instantlyforgettable" for the win :)
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"Fun and instantly forgettable" for the win :)
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I have had vista 64 and now windows 7 64 and no problems. What's yours?
I'm fucking loving Nic Cage and his mental film choices. It's easy to hack on him, but come on. At least it's different everytime. Predict his next choice. I double dare you to even try heheeeeeeee -
Magic is gay.
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Dec 09, 2009 10:27:46 AM CST
Alfred Molina looks like he's having a good time...
by shut the fuck up donny
I might go see it for him. And the FX look pretty decent, too, I suppose.
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Which one of all of those films you mentioned is NOT a studio picture? I think you are a little confused, man.
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Dec 09, 2009 10:31:43 AM CST
A good way to see if a Disney movie will be good is -
by professor_monster
to check who write it - disney movie are always a ht or miss, as with Turdletob, Bruckheimer - but if we look at who penned this thing we'll see which of the to kinds of Disney movies there are that we are seeing -
Mark Rosenthal - Mighty Joe Young, Planet of the Apes (burton version), Matt Lopez - Race to Witch Mountain, Bedtime stories - well, that's all I need to read - this movie will suck. it looks like "Enchanted" for boys -- retarded boys. -
but I'm still hopeful this is a good movie.
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I doubt he reads scripts. His choice in roles were questionable before his financial ruin. Imagine the shit he's prepared to do now.
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You people are dark and angry.
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Because us Canadians can't wrap our heads around the thing you call "sorcerer". As evident by Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
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I haven't watched the trailer yet. I try to stay as spoiler free as possible with these things. See Vern's review of "Bad Lieutenant:PoCNO" for the MEGA-ACTING reference...
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You people are soft and complacent.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Cage: "once you go in, you can never go back" lol then he totally flames out in his gay power. -
Cage goes all Ryu on Molinas ass. Not for me Sir. Maybe on home theatre.
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It strikes me as a bit of an odd sounding bombast.
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Depeche Mode? Interesting.
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Nic Cage looks lame in this role.
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His work, not Goethe's, is the "progenitor" of this story.
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Throwing in the mop and bucket scene from the original doesn't connect it to the original. Terrible trailer, no sense of genuine magic or wonder, just CGI balls of fire. Hmm I think I'll make that my new TB name.
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Dec 09, 2009 12:12:18 PM CST
Wasn't this The Pagemaster with that Culkin MoFo????
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
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"It's not mine." (cue Hans Zimmer synthesized orchestra)
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go boom. Add some hot cars, and some nice T&A. This looks very "Bayified" - which Bruckheimer is never far from anyway.
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...of the Dresden Files, somebody owes Jim Butcher a some $$$.
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This looks more like a rip off of The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. I know it's in pre-production at New Line, but still...
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Me too. Damn that was a great show.
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Yes, Cage is an obvious rip off of Harry Dresden. As soon as I saw him with the duster on I knew.
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a good idea."
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...had the scene from Fantasia with Jay Baruchel in Mickey's place with the magical broomsticks that cause the flood and all that etc.
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Every single aspect I saw there was familiar, the duster and hat, the destructive monsters, the flashy magic, the apprentice, the big city. It's Harry Dresden and his faithful apprentice Molly Carpenter! Jim Butcher should sue.
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Cage was executive producer for the shitty SciFi Dresden show they did a few years ago. Obviously round one was a failure so he's decided to try again. It's funny that this movie looks closer to the books than the show and the movie isn't even associated with the books. I hate the world sometimes. Still, this looks overly cheesy, Cage seems to only have about a 90% success rate nowadays...at best. I fucking hate the wasted potential shit that comes out of Hollywood these days.
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That was just a 15 minute sequence in Fantasia. It's not like there's a heckova lot of story there. Cage can be good, but really he should do a sequel to Vampire's Kiss.
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That Cage was a producer on that series...yep lawsuit.
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"We need to optimize one of our non-movie properties. Any more theme park rides?" "Nope... Sorcerer's Apprentice was only part of a movie. How 'bout that?" "Yeah, but forget the mouse and the hat, that's too old-school. Fuck Mickey Mouse. Let's do live action." "Set in modern times like Harry Potter." "In New York instead of London. So it's American." "Yeah, and the sorcerer's not an old guy, he's a big star with wacky hair so it'll be like Jack Sparrow. Someone who plays messed up characters a lot." "Nic Cage is already our bitch." "Perfect. Get that National Treasure guy to make the thing." "So throw in a young guy to be the apprentice and have someone for Cage to throw Dragon-ball energy blasts at and call it a day." "Corporate bonuses for all!"
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I like my mentor-wizards a little more gray-bearded and my sorcery a little more subtle. If you're going to set magic in the modern era, you need to maintain plausible deniabilty (that your muggles won't notice it). Given the apprentice doesn't appear to believe in magic, I assume there's an element of that, but the trailer packs in so many CGI explosions and monsters that it fails to establish a solid premise. It didn't hook me.
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... looks stupid.
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I hope you're joking. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was Rowling's original (British) title for the first book, which was kept in Canada but changed for the US market because Americans are too stupid to want to read a book about a "philosopher's" stone. Hence the success of films such as Transformers and G.I. Joe. You had it completely backwards.
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I really enjoyed the video. The CGI, while on hyperdrive, looks incredibly impressive. But given how bad N Cage was on everything that looked great, I have no hope for this movie
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blegh
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Nicholas Cage in it, just secured my NOT seeing this film. This guy takes any script he can get. I can't suspend my disbelief for this one, he looks ridiculous. I REALLY want to see this film, but I won't be. Cage & Bruckheimer, a recipe for disaster almost every time.
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No Booze and no guns for Cage means he has to get by on his acting alone. You do the math.
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Cage has talent but this is clearly crapola.
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There, I said it.
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For a throw away type flick this doesn't look horrible. I throw it in the same pile with the Mummy films, it's a family action /comedy/fantasy. I've seen worse.
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And I'm usually really turned off by Senor Nic.
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People should study this as it looks like a shining example of what is wrong with the majority of Hollywood. I'd like to say that I can't believe how fucking shit this film looks, how from this trailer it looks to offer not a shred of originality, and will most probably make a lot of money, but sadly, I can.
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See that one dude's butterfly wings turn into arms? so cool...
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...if it was 1981 and I was ten years old. As it is, I feel that this is the sort of movie that this site shouldn't be reporting about. Because it is, in no way, cool. The music strikes me as the kind of thing an 85-year-old would have his once-yearly wank to.
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For some reason, Nic Cage, John Travolta and Tome Hanks have all had some fucked up hair of late...
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he's way over his head in debt. And when I saw a picture for this film months ago he was riding a horse w/ the medieval period custom. And it didn't appear to be in New York but on one of his Castles.
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http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi289539353/
That is the trailer to "Season of the Witch." For which I was talkign about w/ the same hair and the horse deal. You have to see this trailer above and how similar in tone these two films are. -
'Cause that's what happened in the making of this film last year!
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"A Pain I'm Used To" is bad-ass. The movie, who knows, looks kind of fun. Also, there is a brief clip of the brooms that come to life towards the end.
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I'm disappointed. This looks utterly and hopelessly generic. What the fuck is up with putting everything in modern day New York? I'm sick of it, I wanted the quasi-Europe world with kings, dragons, knight, castles, and swords but with a little less camp than movies usually deliver that kind of genre. I see Hollywood monkeys still can't deliver, and instead we get this POS that looks derivative of that Percy Jackson movie (which was already derivative). Nic Cage, I'd have been WAAAAY more impressed if you'd dressed up in the Gandalf make up as Yen Sid rather than another hair piece trying to look like you're still 30 and hot.
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Grrr....would love to see Pug on screen. There isn't a version out there is there?
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and Alfred Molina needs a bigger pimp coat. But seriously, was watching Face/Off last night and you know...I fucken love Nic Cage.
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It has been optioned, but nothing is rolling as of yet. And it was the Magician (or Magician's Apprentice) not Sorcerer.
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Dec 10, 2009 9:36:58 PM CST
Wasn't this call CIRQUE DU FREAK a coupla' months ago?
by yotzvonfrelnik
Nic Cage fits into that role in the same tantalizing sense of wrongness as John C. Reilly did the vampire in 'Freak.
Actually the only thing that pisses me off about this is the character of the kid is doing that same damn "Whoa!" "Dude!" "Whaat?" sort of disbelieving performance. I'll almost bet sometime in the flick he starts to stroll off, saying something like "Yeah, right, well... you know what... I gotta get home, so you just do your magic tricks and I'll see you around." The movie should be a fun ride, but we've seen chunks of this stuff before. -
Sorcery in a contemporary setting is always cool.
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