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Relativity Media trotted out its slate of films for the Comic-Con crowd, including images of its untitled Snow White film as well as Immortals, The Raven and Shark Night 3D. Relativity also introduced a trailer for Haywire, the Steven Soderbergh-directed action film that will try to make an action hero out of mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano. Here’s a look:
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Hmmm, that trailer made me miss hippie girls. Remember girls with peasant blouses and acoustic guitars?
La Femme Na… Gina.
Of course! I should have thought of her too, but all I came up with was Angelina Jolie in “Salt”. Good comparison catch! John Karavitis
Yayyy! Another Camp Classic is born! La Femme Nikita meets Salt meets all kinds of giggles!
this looks like complete nonsense and i can’t wait to see it
Jesus, this AND the virus movie??? Soderberg is a machine! When does he sleep? And why the hell would he want to retire?
Looks OK. Gina Carano has mad fighting skills but her acting chops seem a little suspect. Please don’t tell her I said that though, I would hate to get my arsed kicked.
i feel like if CLERKS were made fave years from now instead of back then, the guy who chooses the worst movie in the video store would exclaim “oooh, Haywire!”
it’s like one of those John Cena movies with much bigger stars
John Cena!! What happened to him! He was supposed to have been the next big thing! He’s vanished faster than yesterday’s newspaper.
He’s busy carrying the WWE these days.
How sexist. Why does it have to be “camp”? If this was Matt Damon instead of Gina Carano you’d be bouncing off the walls. Looking hot, Salt with a real bad-ass chick instead of Hollywood goddess. Will check.
Relativity is really bad at making trailers/teasers.
They make such bad trailers that I question people involved like Tarsem(that 1st Immortals teaser was face-palmingly BAD)
I saw that picture of Relativity’s Snow White(Lily Collins) and uhmmm not good!!! The costuming, make-up and hairstyle made the girl look like a pale Frida Kahlo who decided to nix the uni-brow area.
The Bourne franchise lawyers are on line one…
BEST NON SEQUITUR EVER: “She was a Marine. She does something there must be a reason for it.”
You could write a book with all of the non sequiturs that Hollywood has vomited out over the decades…. but maybe it isn’t a non sequitur? Maybe some marines out there can clear this up for us? John Karavitis
The direction of this looks horrific. Looks like Soderbergh didn’t do a whole lot of anything other than leaving the camera on sticks and watch the actors try to act. Fail!!!
Another bony-armed woman beating up guys twice her size. Because that happens in real life all the time.
She’s 145 – hardly boney for a woman. And she’s the #3 ranked female fighter in the world. So, yes, in the real world she’d be kicking the crap out of these guys quite easily.
No she wouldn’t. No matter how good she is, an 80 pound advantage is an 80 pound advantage. It’s like a featherweight fighting a heavyweight — there’s a reason it doesn’t happen.
You captured the key point when you said “#3 ranked FEMALE fighter in the world.” So she’s good for a girl.
How would the #3 ranked women’s basketball player do in the NBA? It would be laughable. She wouldn’t even come close to making a roster.
How would the #3 ranked women’s 100 meter sprinter do against the top men? She’d get completely blown away to an embarrassing degree.
How would the #3 ranked women’s boxer do against the top ranked male boxers in her weight class? She’d be immediately destroyed.
It’s the same with almost every activity. Elite men dominate elite women in almost everything, and especially in sports and fighting.
Yes, elite women can beat mediocre guys. But it’s laughable to think she wouldn’t likely get whooped by elite guys.
“She’s 145 – hardly boney for a woman.”
But it’s boney and wimpy compared to the much larger (and supposedly elite-level) guys that Soderbergh wants us to believe she’s superior to. And that’s the point.
When comparing fighters, if one is far smaller, wimpier, and boney-armed than the others, then it is correct to point that out. It’s irrelevant to say, “well, she’s not boney armed for a girl,” because she’s not just fighting with a bunch of small girls. She’s fighting a bunch of big guys, so they are the relevant reference point.
This is why Salt (besides the terrible script) was so laughable. Jolie is a little stick flipping 200 pound special forces guys like they are children…yeah right! And this looks pretty much like a direct ripoff of Bourne and Salt!
‘Bony armed’, that’s funny. You have no clue who Gina Carano is, do you? Never thought to check before commenting, did you?
Whats this called again? Oh yes, fiction.
This doesn’t look good. It will make millions.
I liked it better when it was called Hanna, Salt, The Losers, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Long Kiss Goodnight, etc… etc…
Can we have a non-James Bond spy film where the hero doesn’t end up fighting their own former masters?
Is that too much to ask?
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
It hasn’t been released yet. Plenty of time for the studio to toss in some scenes of George Smiley laying some MMA kick ass on his MI6 bosses because they betrayed him because he knew too much about something or other.
But seriously the whole “rogue agent battling their former CIA bosses” an extremely overused cliche that just screams lazy writing.
A perfect redbox rental on a hazy Sunday afternoon…at best.
Did anybody else imagine Mary Matalin throwing those kicks? The phone voice is a dead ringer. Looks like fun, though. I’ll be there.
Beautiful trailer, looks like a well-made (but obviously formulaic) martial arts/spy action movie, a la The Bourne Identity and Steven Seagal. Could they have thought this up when Angelina Jolie played “Salt”? The only problem with movies like this is that the protagonist never breaks a sweat or even gets so much as a paper cut. I’m willing to give it a chance, but I’m a little perturbed at Bill Paxton here, he seems REALLY out of place. I don’t buy him as a bad guy or tied up with bad guys. John V. Karavitis
She is as completely unbelievable as “our nation’s most valuable weapon” as Colin Farrell was as Alexander the Great.
Ugh.
This is the worst martial arts I’ve seen in a long, long time. It always looks like the victims are frozen in place, and just waiting for this actress to do her martial arts move.
Trailer isn’t bad but a January release date never sounds promising to me.
surround a clenched-jaw “actress” (reminded me of kathy long in “the stranger”) with enough bullets, chases, explosions, bells, whistles and marquee name day players and whoa, it’s menachem and yoram all over again. i’ll probably go just ‘cuz it’s not some 3rd string comics jackass in tights with superpowers.
The teaser for Contagion is much better. This left me with a meh feeling. The shots of her jumping on the wall to give her leverage are underwhelming and feel kind of cheap. Actually all the action feels a bit bland.
But Sodie is a good director so lets hope this film is much better than this lamo teaser.
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That Soderbergh retirement is sounding better and better each day. Whatta snooze fest..Zzzzzzz