Watch the Intriguing First Trailer for Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt
When Oscar-winner Francis Ford Coppola took to Comic-Con to present his new horror project Twixt, he blew minds in Hall H by live-editing footage from his iPad. Now you can watch the first trailer for Twixt to get a taste of what Coppola's got cooking with his Gothic murder-mystery tale about a hack novelist named Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer) who befriends a ghostly girl named V (Elle Fanning) while searching for his next story in a small California town.
The new four-minute Toronto Film Festival trailer starts off in quirky fashion, a pony-tailed Kilmer playing the straight fish-out-of-water in an oddball town with a secret. Kilmer's Hall Baltimore begins dreaming, and Coppola's visuals get increasingly intriguing -- Edgar Allan Poe in the moon, Baltimore's first encounter with V in a foggy, black and white dream punctuated by her bright shock of make-up. And later: More visually striking glimpses of monochrome and color. Finally, a telling exchange: "I want to know the truth." "There are consequences." "What choice do I have? Tell me all of the story."
Twixt will have its world premiere as a special presentation at the Toronto Film Festival this September, where audiences can expect to get the full multi-media treatment that Coppola promised at Comic-Con before he takes the show on the road. And with the added element of 3-D (seen through those custom Edgar Allen Poe 3-D masks he gave out at Comic-Con, fingers crossed), paired with Dan Deacon's live musical accompaniment, the eye-popping sequences should make for a full sensory experience.
Verdict: Color me intrigued.
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Three reasons I won't see this:
1. Film school production values
2. I think of chocolate every time I hear the title
3. Bloated Val Kilmer. Major distraction.
The beginning of the trailer is taken right out of Tom Wait's "What's he building in there."
Reasons why I'll be seeing this movie:
Elle Fanning.
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