New Posters: Uncensored ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,’ ‘Conan’ Character Images, And More
A whole boatload of posters has arrived on internet shores in the past few days, so lets start with today’s big one: the uncensored,definitely not safe for workversion of the one-sheet forDavid Fincher’sThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. This one is pretty much internet link-bait and not much more, because it will likely never go up in any US movie theater. And, truth be told, while I admire the boldness of the poster, I like theslightly censored versionsmuch more. Decide for yourself after the break, where we’ll also presentConan the Barbariancharacter posters and one-sheets forDon’t Be Afraid of the Darkand the reissue ofRainer Werner Fassbinder’sWorld on a Wire.
Update: Just as this went live, a new one-sheet forThe Three Musketeersarrived viaYahoo. That’s been added to the gallery below.
The five new character posters fromMarcus Nispel’s newConan the Barbarianshow Conan (Jason Momoa), and Conan’s father Corin (Ron Perlman); Marique (Rose McGowan); Tamara (Rachel Nichols), and the film’s big bad guy Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang).Conan the Barbarianopens on August 19 in 3D. The posters come froMTV,JoBlo,Pop Wrap,FirstShowing.net, andComingSoon. Here’s the synopsis:
A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.
We’ve presented analternate versionof thisDon’t Be Afraid of the Darkposter before, when it was an international sheet. Now there’s a US version, and it is just as nice. I’d put this on the wall, especially if the movie turns out to be as good assome buzzand thefirst full trailerhave suggested. The movie opens on August 12 in the UK and August 26 in the US. Here’s the synopsis:
Sally Hurst (Bailee Madison), a lonely, withdrawn child, has just arrived in Rhode Island to live with her father Alex (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes) at the 19th-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the sprawling estate, the young girl discovers a hidden basement, undisturbed since the strange disappearance of the mansion’s builder a century ago. When Sally unwittingly lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house’s bottomless depths, she must convince Alex and Kim that it’s not a fantasy—before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all.
Finally, there’s the re-release ofRainer Werner Fassbinder’sWorld on a Wire, a beautiful poster for which was done bySam Smith. This one has been floating around for a week or more, and I regret that it took me this long to present it.
The film was made in ‘73 as a two-part German television production; it is a sci-fi film about a simulated world and the AI that grows within it. Or, asMubisaid in a post about this poster, “a three-and-a-half-hour, two-part, sci-fi head-trip of a movie about government conspiracies and parallel realities set in a world of gleaming ’70s corporate minimalism.”
The film basically went missing for decades, fully out of circulation, with the most obvious link to it being the middling remake The Thirteenth Floor. Now it is restored and making the rounds this year. Here are some play dates, and the trailer:
