‘Broken Kingdom’ Trailer And Poster Featuring Rachel Leigh Cook, Seymour Cassel, Daniel Gilles And Produced By Ryan Gosling

When the executive producer of a film is given billing equal to or over the stars or director, it leads a viewer to two possible conclusions. One – the film has this well-known person’s seal-of-approval and that it’s going to be good. Or two – that they’re using this person’s name to sell a piece of crap.

No one has seen it yet, so the jury is still out as to which these statements best describesBroken Kingdom, executive produced byRyan Gosling, and starringRachel Leigh CookandSeymour Cassel. It’s written, directed and co-starringDaniel Gilles(who is a dead ringer for Andrew Wilson with that beard), best known for a role onThe Vampire Diariesand for his small role as astronaut John Jamison inSpider-Man 2. Yes, the astronaut fromSpider-Man 2has written and directed an independent film with interweaving storylines about four radically different people from across the world. Check out the trailer, see the full poster and much more after the jump.

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Thanks to Bleeding Coolfor the heads up on this trailer.

According tothe IMDB, here’s the plot description.

Four narratives weave their way through the tragic slums of Bogota to the lofty hills of Hollywood. A 14-year-old prostitute girl and an ill-fated, eccentric American writer forge a strange companionship. A Colombian university student invites a terrible danger into her world in the name of financial solace, while a day-care teacher in Los Angeles does everything she can to fight the weight of a tragic secret.

The above trailer isn’t from the film’s official YouTube channel, which is odd, but that channel has a bunch of stuff from the film for those interested in it. You can see the full channel byclicking here, but below, we’ve embedded a behind the scenes clip.

And, finally, here’s the poster.

The film’s official website hasn’t been updatedin over a yearand that’s when they were still filming.Their Twitter feedwas updated a bit more recently, in August, and at that time, they had just locked picture buttheir Facebookwas updated last month and says the official movie is done and being submitted to festivals. Hence the trailer and poster finally seeing the light of day.

Will you be looking forward to this film? What do you think of the trailer?