‘Overlord’ Extended Preview Coming To IMAX Theaters To Promote WWII-Set Sci-Fi Horror Thriller
At CinemaCon earlier this year, producerJ.J. Abramsexplained thatJulius Avery’s upcoming movieOverlord, a sci-fi horror thriller set during World War II, is not aCloverfieldfilm. Abrams promised that a “proper"Cloverfieldsequelis on the way, leaving us to wonder ifOverlordtruly is just simply a low budget, standalone thriller from Bad Robot Productions, or whether Abrams, the master manipulator, is trying to pull the wool over our eyes once again.
We’ll get one step closer to the truth before long, because a new report says that anOverlordextended preview is coming to IMAX theaters very soon.
Trailer-Track.comreports that an exclusive nearly four-minute look at the new movie is coming to North American IMAX theaters in the next few weeks.Alberta Film Ratingsrated new IMAX exclusive content forOverlordthat clocks in at three minutes and forty-three seconds. That’s longer than the average movie trailer, and about the same length of time as the IMAX preview forDamien Chazelle’s new Neil Armstrong movieFirst Man, which /Film’s own Peter Sciretta saw recently (he talked about it ona recent episode of the /Film Daily podcast).
Extended previews like these have happened for movies likeThe Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises,Dunkirk,and others in the past. This could give a much-needed publicity boost toOverlord, a film that shocked CinamaCon crowds with intense, graphic footage but hasn’t yet captured the imagination of general audiences yet. (Overlord’sofficial trailer only has 4.5 million views on YouTube, compared with something likeMission: Impossible – Fallout’s 29 million.)
Overlordis directed byJulius Avery(Son of a Gun) and starsWyatt Russell(22 Jump Street),Jovan Adepo(Fences),Jacob Anderson(Game of Thrones),Pilou Asbæk(Game of Thrones),Iain De Caestecker(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.),John Magaro(The Big Short), andBokeem Woodbine(Fargo).
Trailer-Track suggests that because the movie is rated R, this extended preview could be paired with films likeThe NunorThe Predator, both of which open in September.
Here’s the film’s official synopsis:
On the eve of D-Day, paratroopers drop behind enemy lines to carry out a crucial mission for the invasion. As they approach their target, they soon begin to realize there’s more going on in the Nazi-occupied village than a simple military operation.
Overlordwill premiere at this year’s Fantastic Festin Austin, Texas in September, and it will arrive in theaters onNovember 9, 2018.
