After bringing out a pair of new character posters yesterday, Warner Bros. has brought out the second full length trailer for the summer science fiction film Jupiter Ascending. Coming from the Wachowskis, it certainly has a a kind of expectation about it in terms of visuals and scale and the trailer, while starting small, definitely grows in scale as it goes on here and presents something that has all the flash and style that you want and a lot of material that could mean a more engaging story as well, if it can allow the characters to inhabit the spectacle properly.
The film is set for a July 18th, 2014 release and is written and directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski. It stars Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne.
Plot concept: From the streets of Chicago to the far-flung galaxies whirling through space, “Jupiter Ascending” tells the story of Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), who was born under a night sky, with signs predicting she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people’s houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along—her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.
So it’s Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy, only without any guarantees of even the little depth that work had and with one of the worst “actors” of our time, Channing Tatum?
*If anyone doubts Tatum’s lack of acting chops, Fighting & The Eagle are two movies that will eliminate all doubt. That the man shares a surname with a modern anime VA legend is most unfortunate.