The delightfully bizarre trailer above, for After Last Season, first showed up on Videogum a few weeks ago. As you can see, it consists entirely of context-free small talk and banal randomness. Even aside from the cardboard MRI machine, it’s hard to believe it’s real. 
But the trailer has a rating from the MPAA, has a page at Apple, and supposedly a theatrical release on June 5th. The blog Knox Road even tracked down the film’s writer/director, who not only claims it’s a serious film, but that it cost $5 MILLION DOLLARS and will have a “regular-wide release.” Here’s the equally strange/vague:
The end of another season has brought more than the usual change in temperature to the residents of a city. As they go through some tragic events, the residents, and especially a group of medical students, must reevaluate their lives and face new questions.
What the hell is going on? A CHUD reader recently discovered this blog entry from one of the film’s “stars”:
I am getting ready for my top secret project, which I am just about ready to let you all know about…! We are “working” on it this Thursday with some wonderful people. Let me put it this way…the surprise will be unleashed April 1st, 2009. That’s not too much longer to wait, right? Right.
Hmm, sounds like an elaborate hoax of some kind. Nonetheless, I’m intrigued. As you can clearly see by my raised eyebrow and smoking jacket.
This isn’t film-related, but it’s too important not to post.
This is Porter. Or as I like to call him, Porter the Blues Dog. He likes to rock out on the casio and howl about childhood traumas, like Papa Roach except musical. If anyone out there has the technological capabilities to put Porter through a T-Pain-style harmonizer, I really think it would be worth the time. Also: if Porter the Blues Dog and Hamster on a Piano played a duet I think I might die of cuteness.
Ice Cube must have a really good agent. It’s only taken him a few years to go from streetwise gangsta to Eddie Murphy with a speech impediment. An impressive feat. His next project is called Ride Along. Oh Please be a fish out-of-water comedy pleasebeafishoutofwatercomedy pleasebeafishoutofwatercomedy...
Cube will play a rogue cop with a soft spot for his sister. When she reveals she’s engaged to an upper-crust white psychiatrist, the cop sets out to destroy the relationship by inviting his future brother-in-law on a ride-along. [Variety]
YAY! Quick, someone get Johnny Knoxville on the phone!
It doesn’t matter if JJ Abrams’ Star Trek is any good when it comes out May 8th - it already has huge buzz! Because we talk about it in the internet, you see. And now the writing team of Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman (the guys who wrote Transformers and The Island) and Damon Lindelof have signed up for a sequel.
“There’s obviously a lot of hubris involved in signing on to write a sequel of a movie that hasn’t even come out yet,” said Lindelof, co-creator with Abrams of ABC’s “Lost” who produced the upcoming “Trek” but did not contribute to Orci and Kurtzman’s screenplay. “But we’re so excited about the first one that we wanted to proceed.”
As for potential storylines, Kurtzman stressed that the writing team will wait to take a cue from fan reaction about which direction to go [Ed. Note: please don't. Fans are idiots.].
“Obviously we discussed ideas, but we are waiting to see how audiences respond next month,” he said. “With a franchise rebirth, the first movie has to be about origin. But with a second, you have the opportunity to explore incredibly exciting things. We’ll be ambitious about what we’ll do.” [Variety]
Hmm, first film after franchise rebirth… I know! We could call it Star Trek: The Afterbirth. But I’m sure this will be great. Look how well Indiana Jones’ franchise rebirth went.
After the jump, I’ve got a new clip from Ong Bak 2 (still no date set for U.S. release) in which a drunk Tony Jaa demonstrates that he can kick ass even at advanced stages of inebriety. It’s impressive, usually I just argue with stools over whether they tripped me. But seriously, Tony Jaa is so far above any other martial arts movie star that it’s stupid. They’re not even playing the same sport. It’s like watching Shaq strangle a retarded kid.
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