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The UK trailer for the Weinstein Co’s The Iron Lady hit the web today. It’s the best glimpse yet of Meryl Streep as Margret Thatcher, a performance that has positioned her as the Oscar Best Actress frontrunner. The biopic, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and co-starring Jim Broadbent, hits U.S. theaters on December 30.
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Another left-wing whackjob hit on a great conservative lady? Watch for it.
Another ill-informed post from a Drudge lemming?
Nothing in that trailer looks anything like a hit job; on the contrary, it looks like they portray her as the complicated woman that she was.
Trailer gives no hint of negativity to Thatcher, Smarg.
Story angle is obviously her bold-faced against-the-odds climb to the top (a greater accomplishment in 1979 than Hillary getting the nom in 2016).
I hope the film does not gloss over her support for apartheid in South Africa and the violent suppression of coal-miners exercising their right to organize.
I was right. Reviewers are noting the portrayal of Lady Thatcher as a doddering demented fool instead of her forceful leading presence at her prime. And, looks like South Africa and Zimbabwe today are proving her right…look at what they’ve become.
Smarg, the issue is that your response came from the trailer above… There would be no surprise if you formed that opinion as soon as you heard the script was bought.
That trailer portrays “forceful leading presence at her prime” much more than “demented fool.”
South Africa? Zimbabwe? You are hilarious. Reading too many World Cup fairy tales?
Move the pointer away from the comment box until you have watched the entire The Iron Lady movie and have lived in South Africa or Zimbabwe for at least a year.
Unless Weinstein changed the date this AM, The Iron Lady is scheduled to open in NY/LA platformed on Dec. 30, then expanding on Jan. 27.
Both Javier Bardem and Michelle Williams were lead acting nominees with a similar NY/LA opening last year, and There Will Be Blood also opened after Xmas Day.
There are good reasons for choosing this date -
1) It increases Weinstein’s ability to get prime theatres in those two cities (usually taking the place of an unneeded 2nd print for an underperforming film
2) It keeps the lag time between these openings and the (post nomination) wider release.
I’m baffled. The trailer looks involuntarily funny. It might work, if the movie is supposed to be a parody. Meryl Streep is an amazing actress, but this trailer looks … embarrassing. Wow! I didn’t expect that.
There is such a thing as “Oscar cliche”.
sweet, same music from The Artist trailer reference
Ugh… this sounded promising but it looks pretty bad. From the same director as the truly awful Mamma Mia, so could one really expect it to be good?
“The Prime Minister’s Speech?”
Are they going to make her gay, like J. Edgar?
I lived through Margaret Thatcher and old enough to have seen her in interviews and press conferences. Unlike her idol, Ronald Reagan, she was not a “great communicator”. Aside from her politics, she was a media bore. Meryl as Julia Child was idiosyncratic and very funny, but there’s far less to mine in Thatcher (unless one is going for pure parody). Streep appears to be left with marbles in her mouth and not much else. From the trailer, I suspect Jim Broadbent may walk away with the acting honors here. I put my money on Viola Davis and Michelle Williams to share the major acting awards this year.
bad bad make up.
looks awful.
Yay. They should just title it “For Your Consideration” and save The Iron Lady for a super-hero movie title.
This was a surprise. I think it appears that the movie may be respectful towards Thatcher, which is a shame, because really destroyed the working class in England. She was not, by any measure, good for the country.
Saw a preview In London last week. Was not impressed. Streep will probably get nominated because everyone who doesn’t see the movie will vote for her, but there are no other award considerations in my opinion. It felt more like an expensive Hallmark movie.
I don’t care. I’ll watch Meryl Streep read the label on my prescription bottle and reserve my judgement for the end credits.
This is an American actress who gets to do whatever the hell she wants to do and often does it really well. Name five that can do that.
I agree with Kabbe above, awful make up. They made Meryl Streep look to beautiful. Meryl has those cute eyes and mysteriously, radiant complexion that stand out, Thatcher didn’t.
Trailer does NOT look good.
Meryl is going to nail it. The movie may not.
lane (above) is right – its the same music from The Artist trailer. Wanna bet that music doesn’t actually show up in either?
Could this movie be anymore of a Oscar bait cliche? Meryl is turning into a parody of herself and it shows in this trailer. It’s like a joke clip they put on in move satires about Hollywood.
I can see it now. Venerated and ubiquitous Hollywood naked empress feigns graciousness and modesty to hide quiet desperation for a win to redeemed her from a long Oscar losing streak during a clip from her latest bad movie all the while hisses of “overrated” sizzle through the crowd.