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A trailer has been released for Texas Killing Fields, the drama that is directed by Ami Canaan Mann and produced by Michael Mann. The gritty drama stars Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloe Moretz and Jessica Chastain. A New York and local detective team to investigate a series of murders. Production design on the film was done by Aran Reo Mann, the director’s sister, who was also the production designer of Miranda July’s film You and Me and Everyone We Know. Texas Killing Fields will be released October 7 by Anchor Bay. The film will also be shown at the Venice Film Festival.
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Jessica Chastain looks like this year’s Jude Law. How did she get into so many high profile 2011 films? She must have amazing agents.
At this point, it’s very, very difficult to do a contemporary cops-and-homicidal-killer story as a feature film and differentiate it from all the TV procedurals on the air every night. You need some kind of twist – either period, like Zodiac, or a genre twist, like Alien Nation.
So, the nice cast aside, whether this is a good film or a bad film, from this trailer it not only looks like an episode of Criminal Minds, but they even did a very similar story last season.
And I love Sam Worthington, but as a Texas cop? Were there no American actors who could play this role? Did they shoot it in Australia for a rebate?
Fred Fred: right on target – who is Jessica Chastain and how is she ending up in all these movies? I’d never even heard of her before Tree of Life? Maybe getting cast in the Malick film gave her the cred with everyone else, and she landed all these while that film was still in post?
Great trailer. Gritty looking mystery/thriller for the Fall with a great cast. Can’t wait.
However… Anchor Bay. I know they’re trying to do better stuff and acquiring a lot, but that logo… it’s just so cheap and cutesy and screams straight-to-DVD. The oversized sail on the boat is an A. Get it? Duh. It seems so out of place on a serious, gritty, cool trailer like this. Perhaps perception will change, but I don’t think I’m alone in this thinking. It’s a subconscious thing, but studio logos need to feel epic and larger than life. Millennium is “trying” with their new logo on Conan (still kind of cheap looking, though). Lionsgate made a decent upgrade a few years ago from the “lion star in the sky” to the “gears and locks of the grand gate” thingy.
Think of that feeling you have when the WB or Paramount or Fox logos play… that Anchor Bay logo isn’t even close.
I have been anticipating this release ever since I heard Danny Boyle had signed on to direct like 3 years ago…the rationale being anything Boyle would consider must be at least worth while, but im not sure how into it I am having previewed Mann’s take…eh
Yeah, it looks fictionalized quite a bit, but this is going to bring up some really bad memories in South Texas.
Love me some Chloe Moretz and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Sam Worthington is a beautiful dud, though. Movie looks fairly by-the-numbers, but I’ll probably check it out.
still looks like an HBO movie!
You mean it’ll be nominated for 12 Emmy Awards?
Went to film school with Amy and while nice and a hard worker, it was always the parlayed relations off of daddy that got her places… Hollywood, more corrupt than Leahman, Goldman, and congress all wrapped up into one.
Now I’m dying to know if the detective’s trouble daughter disappears or is kidnapped in Act 3???
Man, that would really RAISE THE STAKES and make it PERSONAL! It might even escalate the CONFLICT between the two cops! One of them wants to save his daughter but the other wants to focus on catching the killer!
Kidding of course. Obviously all of that happens. This looks paint-by-numbers by procedural TV standards, let alone for a feature.
Worthington can’t do accents to save his life. I guess casting him secured their funding. But couldn’t they cast an actor who can do a convincing accent unless Texas has moved to the Australian Outback. And this is a true story in that Texas is in fact a state in the USA.
Boy do I hate all the Roger Eberts up in here! Everyone a daggone critic I guess. If you watched the trailer and your not feelin it, don’t go see it. If its interesting enough for you, then may you should go check it out.
Say what you will about the movie, the actors directors and the producers. But I’m glad this movie was made. Its a true story about our main hwy near here in actual Texas City, TX. HWY I-45 were numerous murders have happen and many unidentified bodies have been found. So its not a HBO or Lifetime movie. Its a movies based on the true life story of these vicitms that have yet to have their cases solved.