While the poster might have heralded its arrival, it’s slightly unusual for a big blockbuster trailer to land in the middle of a weekend. Still, given that international versions hit YouTube in the last day or so, it’s perhaps wise for Universal to get the official take on new Tom Cruise pic Oblivion out in the world. Take a look above.
And, frankly, it’s an impressive promo. The first footage gives us a much better idea of the film’s style and plot.
Co-written and directed by Tron Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski, Oblivion takes place on a future Earth that has been ruined by years of war with an alien race. Though mankind won the conflict, the cost was half the planet’s surface. Humans have been evacuated to floating cities in the clouds and now roving drones track down the last of the alien scourge and keep the place secure.
We join Cruise as Jack Harper, a man stationed on Earth whose job it is to repair the drones. His link to the rest of the human race is Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) who he talks to via radio. They’ve got two more weeks before Jack’s punishment sentence is up and they can join the others in the sky.
But then Jack discovers something while hunting an alien survivor – not just a group of humans living underneath the surface, but also a woman (Olga Kurylenko) in a crashed spaceship who has a link to Jack’s past. And then dark secrets begin to emerge…
With Morgan Freeman and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau also in the cast, Oblivion will strike our screens on April 12.
this caught me by surprise and am impressed by the trailer..style looks fantastic and cruise looks half decent in it..2013 gonna be a good year for sci fi....gravity,elysium,enders game and now this. More
Posted by darktrain at 22:27 on 10 December 2012 | Report This Post
That guy's over fifty!
How does he keep doing it? He's nearly fifteen years older than me and I look like a relic by comparison. I hate him! Film looks cool, though. Compare this trailer with the Will Smith "After Earth" effort and see how easy it is for the Cruiser to lift a fairly obvious-looking genre piece to new heights. The guy's a legend! I'm still buying his tickets..but not for Rock of Ages.That was awful. More
Posted by Porter at 20:31 on 10 December 2012 | Report This Post
